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

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About the User Interface on the SE Home Page
The SE Home page provides a gateway into the functionality for SE. To access the SE Home page,
select Tools > Storage Essentials > Home. The user interface for the Home page is split into
several panes:
• Top pane - It provides access to discovery and configuration features, in addition to features
that let you change your login profile.
• Left pane - Displays the status light. If you are using HP the Storage Essentials workflow, you
can view the buttons for the management server's utilities in the left pane.
• Right pane - Displays the output of a feature, such as the topology in System Manager.
About the Top Pane
The menus and button in the upper-right corner of the Home page (Tools > Storage Essentials >
Home) provide the following functionality.
IMPORTANT: The Configuration, Security, and Discovery buttons only appear if you belong
to a role that has System Configuration selected on the Edit Role page (such as the Domain
Administrator role). See ”Managing Security” on page 137 for more information.
• Configuration - This menu provides the tools for you to manage the management server, such
as saving the database. See ”Configuring the Management Server” on page 177.
• Security - This menu lets you manage users, organizations, roles and licenses. See ”Managing
Security” on page 137.
• Discovery - This menu provides the tools for the management server to discover and obtain
information from elements in your network. See ”Discovering NAS Devices, Tape Libraries,
Switches and Storage Systems” on page 15 and ”Discovering Applications, Backup Servers
and Hosts” on page 105.
• Help - This menu provides access to the online help and the copyright information.
The links in the upper-left corner let you modify your profile and sign out of the management server.
The status light indicates the status of the management server. It usually displays green under
normal conditions, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 4 Status Light
The status light changes color during the following:
Table 2 Status Light Settings
Scenario Status Light
Normal