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

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NOTE: When the status light is orange or red, you may want to click the text to the left of the light
to access discovery logs quickly (Tasks & Logs > View Storage Essentials Log).
About the Left Pane
The left pane displays the buttons used to access the management server's main utilities. The left
pane is accessible when you access Storage Essentials Home page (Tools > Storage Essentials
> Home):
IMPORTANT: You may not see all of the following utilities depending on the role assigned to your
user account. For example, users assigned to the Help Desk role by default have access to
Application Viewer and Event Manager, but not to System Manager, Provisioning Manager, Policy
Manager, and Reporting.
• Application Viewer - Application Viewer lets you monitor and display information obtained
from discovered databases.
• Backup Manager - Backup Manager lets you monitor the overall status of the backup process,
and visualize the backup configuration and recoverability of a file, directory, volume or a
server. See ”About Backup Manager” on page 383.
• System Manager - System Manager lets you accesses systems, and view assets by fabric and
logical path. See ”About System Manager” on page 245.
• Capacity Manager - Capacity Manager provides a graphical representation of an element's
storage capacity in the storage network. See ”About Capacity Manager” on page 561.
• PerfExplorer - Performance Manager provides a graphical representation of the results
obtained from monitoring your elements. See ”Creating Performance Charts” on page 538.
• Event Manager - Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort and filter API-generated events. See
”About Event Manager” on page 453.
• Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager assists you in creating zones, zone sets, and
zone aliases, in addition to storage pools, volumes, and host security groups. See ”About
Provisioning Manager” on page 327.
Discovery
Backup Topology Details
Include infrastructure details
Table 2 Status Light Settings