Using the Enterprise Management Window

The Enterprise Management Window contains the functional areas labeled in the example below. For a functional description of this window, see Introducing the Enterprise Management Window. For quick access to information about a particular area, click on one of the links below:

Menu Bar Options

About the Device Tree View

About the Overall Health Status Area

Toolbar Options

About the Device Table View

About the Progress Line and Progress Bar

Menu Bar Options

Menu/Option

Description

Edit Menu Options

Add Device

Allows you to manually add storage subsystems to the management domain.

Remove Device

Allows you to remove storage subsystems from the management domain.

Alert >> Destinations

Allows you to configure the destination addresses for delivery of e-mail and SNMP trap messages containing critical event details affecting a storage subsystem.

Also, this option allows you to validate potential destination addresses by sending test notification messages and reporting the delivery status.

Alert >> Global Settings

Allows you to specify e-mail alert settings for every storage subsystem in the management domain.

Comment

Allows you to add storage subsystem comments to the Device Table.

View Menu Options

By Name

Sorts rows in the Device Table according to storage subsystem name.

By Status

Sorts rows in the Device Table according to storage subsystem status.

By Management Type

Sorts rows in the Device Table according to storage subsystem management type.

By Comment

Sorts rows in the Device Table according to storage subsystem comment.

Partially Managed Devices

Lists partially managed devices in the management domain and gives you the opportunity to correct the condition.

Tools Menu Options

Automatic Discovery

Provides an automatic mechanism for discovering storage subsystems on the local sub-network.

Rescan

Provides an automatic mechanism for discovering newly attached Host-Agent Managed storage subsystems on a selected host.

Manage Device

Allows you to launch the Subsystem Management Window for a selected storage subsystem.

Execute Script

Provides the capability to perform batch management tasks using scripts.

Help Menu Options

Contents

Opens the help system with the topic "Introducing the Enterprise Management Window" in the Content Pane.

About

Contains copyright and version information for the Enterprise Management software.

Toolbar Options

Button

Equivalent Menu Option

Tools >> Automatic Discovery

Tools >> Rescan

Edit >> Add Device

Edit >> Remove Device

Tools >> Manage Device

About the Device Tree View

The Device Tree View is one of two Enterprise Management Window views. The Device Tree View provides a tree-structured view of nodes in the management domain. Double-click on the Storage Management Station node or host node to expand or collapse the view of their child nodes. If you double-click on a storage subsystem node, it will launch the Subsystem Management software for that particular storage subsystem.

The Storage Management Station node, labeled with its machine name (HFordPC in the example at left), is always present in the Device Tree. When storage subsystems and the hosts through which they are managed are added to the management domain, they become child nodes of the Storage Management Station node. In the example at left, Host Kansas City, Storage Subsystem Finance, and an Unidentified Node are child nodes of HFordPC.

Note: If you hold the mouse over the Storage Management Station node, a Tooltip displays the machine IP Address.

Child Nodes of the Storage Management Station Node

Description

Host

Represents a host machine, with attached host-agent managed storage subsystems.

Note: If you hold the mouse over a host node, a Tooltip displays the IP address of the Host.

Storage Subsystem

A storage subsystem node may be either directly managed , or host-agent managed .

Notes:

  • Any host-agent managed storage subsystems are child nodes of the host node.
  • If a storage subsystem is managed through multiple hosts, it will be duplicated in the Device Tree View under each host node to which it is attached.
  • If you hold the mouse over a directly managed storage subsystem node, a Tooltip displays the Host Name and IP address of each controller in the storage subsystem. The host name and IP address for each controller do not display for storage subsystem nodes that are host-agent managed.
  • The icon that represents the storage subsystem indicates its connection status or the storage subsystem hardware status. For more information, see Monitoring Storage Subsystem Status.

Unidentified

Devices that you add that were not accessible at the time of the Add Device operation.

About the Device Table View

Each storage subsystem is represented by a single row in the Device Table. The columns in the Device Table display data about the storage subsystem, as described below.

Column

Description

Name

The name of the storage subsystem. If the storage subsystem is unnamed, the default name is "<unnamed>".

Status

An icon and text label reporting the true status of the storage subsystem. For more information, see Monitoring Storage Subsystem Status.

Network Management Type

Column Value

Description

Direct

This is a directly managed storage subsystem.

Host-Agent (<name of host>)

This is a host-agent managed storage subsystem, managed through a single host.

Direct, Host-Agent (<name of host>)

This is a storage subsystem that is both directly managed and host-agent managed through a single host.

Host-Agent (<name of host>, <name of host>)...

This is a host-agent managed storage subsystem, managed through multiple hosts.

Direct, Host-Agent (<name of host>,<name of host>)...

This is a storage subsystem that is both directly managed and host-agent managed through multiple hosts.

Comment

Any comments that you have entered about the particular storage subsystem.

Note: Sort the rows in the Device Table in ascending or descending order by either clicking on a column heading; or using the View >> By Name, View >> By Status, View >> By Management Type, or View >> By Comment menu options.

Displaying Storage Subsystems in the Device Table

Navigating within the Enterprise Management Window

In addition to using the mouse, you can also use the keyboard for navigation:

About the Overall Health Status Area

The Overall Health Status is shown in the lower left corner of the Enterprise Management Window and displays a consolidated health status for all of the known storage subsystems in the management domain. For more information, see Monitoring Storage Subsystem Status.


About the Progress Line and Progress Bar

At the bottom of the Enterprise Management Window, to the right of the Overall Health Status area, is the Progress Line and the Progress bar.


Progress Line

Progress Bar

Progress Line

Text in this area displays the current operation being performed or the results of the most recently performed operation.

Examples:

To clear the text from the last operation performed, select any object in the Enterprise Management Window.

Progress bar

A Progress bar, as shown in the example above, is displayed for the Automatic Discovery and Rescan operations. For more information, see Discovering Storage Subsystems and Rescanning a Host for New Storage Subsystems.