HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Overview6
• Command Line Interface - The command line interface (CLI) provides an alternate way for
you to manage elements the management server monitors. You can use the CLI commands in
scripts to manage your storage.
• File System Viewer - File System Viewer does a recursive lookup on the file system and stores
the information in an embedded database. File System Viewer can scan files very quickly
because of its structure in the database and because it uses a multi-threaded process. More
than one process can be used at a time to scan the files. Refer to the File Servers Guide for
more information.
• Event Manager - Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort and filter events from managed
elements. An event can be anything that occurs on the element, such as a device connected to
a Brocade switch has gone off-line. See ”Event Management” on page 453 for more
information.
• Event Monitoring for Storage Essentials - Storage Essentials provides detailed information
about events from an element. To access Event Monitoring for Storage Essentials, click the
Storage Essentials Managed link in HP Systems Insight Manager. Click the link for the system
name. On the HP System Page, click SE System Properties. Then, click the Events tab. See
”Event Management” on page 453 for more information.
• Path Provisioning - Path Provisioning lets you schedule provisioning task, such as creating
zones, to run at a later time. See ”Path Provisioning” on page 409 for more information.
• Performance Manager - Performance Manager provides a graphical representation of the
performance history of an element, such as bytes transmitted per second for a switch. See
”Viewing Performance Data” on page 537 for more information.
• Policy Manager - Policy Manager can automatically send an e-mail, generate an event, or run
a remote script when an element is being overused or when one of the following occurs:
• A new element is discovered
• Successful provisioning occurred
• An event occurred on one or more specified elements
See ”Managing Policies” on page 579 for more information.
• Backup Manager - Backup Manager helps you to keep track of element backups. See
”Managing Backups” on page 383 for more information.
• Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager assists you in creating zones, zone sets, and
zone aliases, in addition to storage pools, volumes, and host security groups. For more
information, see ”Provisioning Manager” on page 327.
• Reporting - Reporting provides a variety of detailed reports, such as dependency, event, and
utilization reports for discovered elements. See ”Running Reports” on page 473 for more
information.
• System Manager - System Manager is the gateway to many features that let you view details
about the discovered elements. System Manager provides a topology that lets you view how the
devices in your network are connected. For more information, see ”Viewing Element Topology
and Properties” on page 245.