Administrator Guide
Tips for using PowerVault Manager
The following list contains tips for using PowerVault Manager:
• Do not use the Back, Forward, Reload, or Refresh buttons in the browser. PowerVault Manager has a single page on which content
changes as you perform tasks and automatically updates to show current data.
• A red asterisk (
) identifies a required setting.
• As you set options in action panels, PowerVault Manager informs you whether a value is invalid or a required option is not set. If the
Apply or OK button remains inactive after you set all required options, either press Tab or click in an empty area of the panel to
activate the button.
• If an action panel has an Apply button and an OK button, click Apply to apply any changes and keep the panel open or click OK to
apply any changes and close the panel. After clicking Apply, you can click Close to close the panel without losing changes already
applied.
• You can move an action panel or a confirmation panel by dragging its top border.
• If you are signed in to PowerVault Manager and the controller you are accessing goes offline, the system informs you that the system
is unavailable or that communication has been lost. After the controller comes back online, close and reopen the browser and start a
new PowerVault Manager session.
• If your session is inactive for too long, you are signed out automatically. This timer resets after each action you perform. One minute
before automatic sign-out you are prompted to continue using PowerVault Manager.
• If you start to perform an action in a panel (such as adding a new entry to a table) and then select an item or button that interrupts
the action, a confirmation panel will ask if you want to navigate away and lose any changes made. If you want to continue performing
the original action, click No. If you want to stop performing the original action, click Yes.
• In the banner or footer,
or indicates that a panel has a menu. Click anywhere in the panel to display the menu.
• Right-click a row in a topic table to display the Action menu. This action provides a faster method for more experienced users to
access the menu items. Hovering over a disabled menu item shows a tooltip indicating why the item is disabled.
Tips for using tables
Items such as initiators, hosts, volumes, and mappings are listed in tables. Use the following methods singly or together to quickly locate
items that you want to work with.
Selecting items
• To select an item, click in its row.
• To select a range of adjacent items, click the first item in the range and Shift+click the last item in the range.
• To select or deselect one or more items, Ctrl+click each one.
Sorting items
To sort items by a specific column, click the column heading to reorder items from low to high (
). Click again to reorder items from
high to low ( ).
To sort items by multiple columns
1. In the first column to sort by, click its heading once or twice to reorder items.
2. In the second column to sort by, Shift+click its heading once or twice to reorder items. If you Shift+click a third time, the column is
deselected.
3. Continue for each additional column to sort by.
Using filters to find items with specified text
To filter a multicolumn table, in the filter field above the table, enter the text to find. As you type, only items that contain the specified text
remain shown. Filters are not case sensitive.
To use a column filter
1.
In the column heading click the filter icon (
). The filter menu appears.
2. Do one of the following:
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