Administrator Guide

NOTE:
The help content in PowerVault Manager is not viewable if you use the Microsoft Edge browser that shipped with
Windows 10.
● To see the help window, you must enable pop-up windows.
● To optimize the display, use a color monitor and set its color quality to the highest setting.
● To navigate beyond the Sign In page (with a valid user account):
○ For Internet Explorer, set the local-intranet security option to medium or medium-low.
○ For Internet Explorer, add the network IP address of each controller as a trusted site.
○ Ensure that the browser is set to allow cookies, at least for the IP addresses of the storage system network ports.
○
If the PowerVault Manager is configured to use HTTPS, ensure that Internet Explorer is set to use TLS 1.2.
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
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