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

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• The type of license you have. Depending on your license, all features may not be available. See
the List of Features to determine if you have access to all features. The List of Features is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
• 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.
The following is the full feature set available:
• Application Viewer — Application Viewer lets you monitor and display data from applications.
You can access Application Viewer by clicking Tools > Storage Essentials > Application Viewer.
• 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 ”Business Tools” on page 675 for
more information.
• Capacity Manager — Capacity Manager provides a graphical representation of an element's
storage capacity in the storage network. See ”Finding an Element’s Storage Capacity” on
page 355 for more information.
• Chargeback Manager — Chargeback Manager helps you manage departmental ownership,
track cost, and assemble business reports making inquiries, such as audits and inventory
reviews, easier. See ”Chargeback Manager” on page 637 for more information.
• Command Line Interface — The command line interface (CLI) provides an alternate way for you
to manage elements that 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, for example, a device connected
to a Brocade switch has gone off-line. See ”Event Management” on page 329 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 and click the Events tab. See ”Event
Management” on page 329 for more information.
• Path Provisioning — Path Provisioning lets you schedule a provisioning task, such as creating
zones, to run at a later time. See ”Path Provisioning” on page 595 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 387 for more information.