HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

Overview10
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, or Reporter.
• 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 server.
See ”About Backup Manager” on page 571.
• System Manager — System Manager lets you access systems, and view assets by fabric and
logical path. See ”About System Manager” on page 249.
• Capacity Manager — Capacity Manager provides a graphical representation of an element's
storage capacity in the storage network. See ”About Capacity Manager” on page 355.
• Performance Manager — Performance Manager provides a graphical representation of the
results obtained from monitoring your elements. See ”Creating Performance Charts” on
page 394.
• Event Manager — Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort, and filter API-generated events. See
”About Event Manager” on page 329.
• 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 517.
• Policy Manager — Policy Manager lets you set up rules so that an automated response occurs
when a particular event happens, or a value triggers the system. See ”About Policy Manager”
on page 371.
• Business Tools — The management server provides advisors and automators. Advisors provide
detailed information for you to make informed decisions about your network, such as
non-compliant HBA firmware. Automators let you automate particular tasks. The advisors and
automators available to you depend upon your release. See ”About the Business Tools” on
page 675.
• Chargeback Manager — Chargeback Manager helps you manage ownership by department,
track costs, and assemble business reports. You can view data gathered by Chargeback
Manager by element, department, or the entire enterprise. You can show upper management
reports with the data that Chargeback Manager gathered. These reports can be e-mailed on a
regular schedule. See ”About Chargeback Manager” on page 637 for more information.
• Reporter — Reporter provides detailed reporting on the infrastructure, such as statistics and
usage trends. See ”About Reporter” on page 417.