About the top pane, 4 status light, 2 status light settings – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Left pane

- Displays the status light. If you are using HP the Storage Essentials workflow, you can

view the buttons for the management server's utilities in the left pane.

Right pane

- Displays the output of a feature, such as the topology in System Manager.

About the Top Pane

The menus and button in the upper-right corner of the Home page (Tools > Storage Essentials >
Home

) provide the following functionality.

IMPORTANT:

The Configuration, Security, and Discovery buttons only appear if you belong to

a role that has System Configuration selected on the Edit Role page (such as the Domain

Administrator role). See

Managing Security

” on page 147 for more information.

Configuration

- This menu provides the tools for you to manage the management server, such

as saving the database. See ”

Configuring the Management Server

” on page 187.

Security

- This menu lets you manage users, organizations, roles and licenses. See

Managing

Security

” on page 147.

Discovery

- This menu provides the tools for the management server to discover and obtain

information from elements in your network. See

Discovering NAS Devices, Tape Libraries,

Switches and Storage Systems

” on page 17 and ”

Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and

Hosts

” on page 113.

Help

- This menu provides access to the online help and the copyright information.

The links in the upper-left corner let you modify your profile and sign out of the management server.
The status light indicates the status of the management server. It usually displays green under normal

conditions, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 4

Status Light

The status light changes color during the following:

Table 2

Status Light Settings

Scenario

Status Light

Normal

Discovery

Backup Topology Details

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