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

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3. When you are done with your modifications, click the Save Changes button.
Modifying Your User Preferences
Use the User Preference tab to modify your user preferences for System Manager, Element
Topology, and Event Manager. The User Preference tab controls what is displayed for your user
account.
To access the User Preferences tab:
1. Click the name of your account in the upper-left corner of Storage Essentials.
Figure 9 Accessing the User Preferences Tab
2. Click the User Preferences tab.
System Manager and Element Topology Preferences
To change the severity icons you view in System Manager and in the element topology, select a
severity level from the Display Severity icons with this severity level or higher drop-down
menu. See the topic, ”Viewing Event Status in the Topology” on page 280 for more information
about event status.
If you want events refreshed within a time period, select the Refresh events automatically field.
Then, enter in minutes how often you want the event information on the screen updated. If this
option is set to every five minutes, the management server refreshes the severity icons displayed in
System Manager and the element topology every five minutes.
Event Manager Preferences
Use the following table as a guideline for changing your user preferences for Event Manager.
Table 16 Changing User Preferences for Event Manager
If you want... Do the following...
To be reminded
whenever you
change a filter
Select the option, Always remind me to apply filters when I
change them.
Events refreshed
automatically
Select the option, Refresh events automatically. Then, enter how
often in minutes you want events refreshed.
Change the
number of events
displayed on each
page
Select the number of events to appear on a page from the Number of
Events combo box.