Web-based System Manager Administration Guide

Help

Web-based System Manager provides a variety of ways of obtaining assistance and additional information.

Hover Help

Provides assistance for icons in the tool bar. Position the mouse pointer over a tool bar icon and wait for a couple of seconds. A text label displays, identifying the meaning of the icon.

Tips

Provides assistance on common tasks performed with the currently active plug-in. Tips are displayed between the menu and tool bars. Tips are provided in the form of simple text instructions or hypertext links to browser-based help. The user can hide or show the tips area according to preference by using the Show submenu in the View menu. (See Tips Area for additional information).

Context Help

Provides assistance on the use of dialog windows. Access context help by clicking the Help button in the lower-right corner of the dialog. A small context help window displays. When you click on individual controls in the dialog, assistance on the use of that control displays in the context help window. When context help is running, you can only access the controls in the dialog to view help. To use the controls, you must first close the context help window either by clicking the Close button on the context help window or clicking the Help button in the dialog that you sought help on.

Browser-based Help

Provides extensive information for tasks in the browser-based help system. To use the browser-based help system, you must first have a document server configured. After the help server has been identified to the managed host, you can access browser-based help by making a selection from the Help menu in the menu bar or by clicking on a link in a Tips area.

Filtering and Sorting Views

When a plug-in supports Large Icons, Small Icons, or Details view, you can make it easier to locate objects by filtering or sorting the view. Filtering reduces the number of objects displayed in the contents area. You can filter a view either by specifying the names of objects or by defining one or more rules for excluding objects from the view:

• To filter objects, select the View menu, then the Filter icon. The Filter tab lets you define a list of objects to exclude from the view. To specify an object to hide, type its name in the field to the right of the Add button. Then press the Add button. Repeat this task for each object that you want to hide. Alternatively, you can click the Browse button to display a list of objects that can be hidden. Select those objects that you want to hide and click OK. They display in the Hidden Objects list. To remove the listed objects from the contents area, press either OK or Apply.
• The Advanced tab lets you define one to three rules for hiding objects based on specific attributes of those objects. For example, to hide all of the administrative users from the All Users plug-in, open the filter dialog and select the Advanced tab. Make sure the Hide the objects check-box is checked. Then select the Type property, and the = relationship. Enter the matching value Administrator, and click OK or Apply. All of the administrative users are removed from the view. You can supply additional rules by clicking the Add Rule button. An additional rule definition row displays. Multiple rules are combined by an AND operation. To remove rules, click on the Remove button to the right of the rule. To remove the last rule, clear the matching value from the rule.

Both the Filter tab and the Advanced tab can be used together if the Hide check-box is checked on both tabs.