Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 50)

22 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
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Persisting GUI preferences
Web Tools persists your GUI preferences across sessions for the Port Admin, Switch Admin, and
Name Server dialog boxes on all web-browser platforms. Persistence is performed on a per host
basis.
The Port Admin GUI preferences that persist are:
• Basic or Advance mode
• Last selected tab by the user
• Table column sorting
• Table column positions
The Switch Admin GUI preferences that persist are:
• Basic or Advance modes
The Name Server GUI preferences that persist are:
• Table column sorting
• Table column positions
• Auto refresh interval selection check box
• Auto refresh interval value
Tasks
The Tasks menu lets you manage, monitor, and perform other tasks.
The Management section of the Tasks menu provides access to the following options:
• Zone administration
Zone information is collected from the selected switch. If an ACL-based FCS policy is in effect,
zoning can be administered only from the primary fabric configuration server (FCS) switch.
Refer to
“Zoning management” on page 121 for more information.
• Switch administration
• Port administration
• Admin Domain administration
• FCR (present only on the base switch when the Virtual Fabrics capability is enabled.)
• iSCSI administration
• Fabric Watch
NOTE
Some of these functions require a license key to activate them.
The Monitor section of the Tasks menu provides access to the following options:
• Performance monitoring—You must use Web Tools with the EGM license to perform
performance monitoring operations; otherwise, access to this feature is denied and an error
message displays.
• Name Server information—This feature is available with Web Tools and Web Tools with the EGM
license. Name Server information is collected from the selected switch. Refer to
“Displaying the
Name Server entries” on page 56 for more information.