VERITAS Enterprise Administrator UserÆs Guide 5.0 (September 2006)

13Introducing the VEA console
Multiple selections
Tasks View
Click on Tasks to bring up the Task View. This displays information about the current
tasks.
Multiple selections
You can select more than one object from a list (for example, when you need to add
several disks into a disk group) using the SHIFT and CONTROL keys in conjunction with
the left mouse button.
Use the SHIFT key to select a range of objects.
Use the CONTROL key to select individual objects.
Accessing tasks
Most VEA tasks are performed by selecting objects and/or tasks and then completing the
resulting dialog boxes. With VEA, you can access tasks from the menu bar and from a
context-sensitive popup menu.
For a selected task, you can use the popup menu options: Abort Task to cancel the task;
Pause Task to temporarily stop a task, Resume Task to continue the task; and
Throttle Task to throttle a task.
Task throttling
Task Throttling causes an operation to pause for the allowed amount of time whenever a
disk I/O is performed, allowing the CPU and disks to perform other tasks.
Select the popup menu option Throttle Task to change the task priority. You can change
the priority for a single task, or select Throttle All Tasks to apply the priority to all
Volume Manager Tasks. Click Ok to complete your selection.
Clearing finished tasks
Tasks are persistent in the Tasks console. To remove completed tasks from the window,
select Clear All Finished Tasks from the popup menu.
Viewing task properties
To view task properties and the low-level commands used to perform a task, select the
task and choose Properties from the popup menu.