This topic provides information about the status indicators, user assistance, and table sorting and filtering that is available from the SAN File System console.
The SAN File System console offers status indicators, user assistance, and table sorting and filtering.
When a task takes more than a few seconds to complete, a progress indicator displays. The indicator shows that activity is taking place, but not how long the activity will take to complete. You can wait until a task completes, or use the task bar, or My Work frame to start another task before it completes. Clicking the Close button closes the panel without stopping the underlying action.
You can access both the Help Assistant and the SAN File System Information Center through the SAN File System console task bar.
The Help Assistant provides embedded field-level descriptions corresponding to the items contained on the panels of the SAN File System console. Because the panel help is embedded into the overall console, you can obtain context-sensitive information without interrupting your current activity. Each time you click a different panel, the information in the Help Assistant changes accordingly.
You can launch the Help Assistant by clicking the Toggle
Help Assistant icon ()
from the right side of the task bar. Because this button performs in a toggle
fashion, to hide the Help Assistant, click the icon once again.
More details about the SAN File System Help Assistant can be found by following the “Related topics” link below.
An Information Center is a searchable, online, topic-based help system that can be launched from a Web browser. The SAN File System Information Center provides additional SAN File System product documentation.
You can open the Information Center from the
SAN File System console by clicking the Launch Information Center icon
()
from the right side of the task bar. Alternately, many of the related topics
provided in the Help Assistant frame link you directly to the Information
Center.
More details about the SAN File System Information Center can be found by following the “Related topics” link below.
The tables in the SAN File System
work area display object attributes in table columns. The data is chunked
into pages, as needed, to reduce scrolling. The cell at the bottom of the
table displays the number of pages of data and the number of table objects,
including the number filtered, displayed and selected. You can page through
the objects by clicking the icon
at the bottom left of the table, or jump to pages by entering a page number
and clicking Go.
You can view the details of an object by clicking on one of its attributes, indicated by an underlined link. You can click on the name or ID, which links to additional information about the associated object. The object “Details” view is opened as a subtask panel.
The tables provide sort and filter functions through icons in the top left corner. These functions provide an inline way for you to quickly search, find, select, and use resources within SAN File System tables. For example, sorting can help you quickly determine which filesets or storage pools are approaching quota limits.
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The Select All icon selects check boxes for all rows. |
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The Deselect All icon clears check boxes for all rows. |
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The Show/Hide Filter Row icon toggles the filter row on and off. |
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The Clear All Filters icon clears any previously set filters for all columns. |
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The Edit Sort icon allows advanced sorts such as column sort order. |
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The Clear All Sorts icon clears all table sort actions. |
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The Collapse/Expand Table icon toggles between show all and hide all table rows. |
The Go button to the right of the drop-down box submits the selected action. Some actions depend on one or more table items being selected; whereas others can only be performed against one selected item. When you can only select one item to complete an action, that action has the number one in parentheses listed beside it as in this example: “Properties (1).”
When an action is submitted, the system verifies that a proper selection has been made within the table. If a proper selection has not been made, the page displays a message with instructions on how to correct your selection and complete the action.
In-page messages are embedded within the work content area of the panels and provide information or warnings. They appear above the content of the panel, but below the panel description and instructions.
A common use of in-page messages is to inform you that an action needs to take place. For example, if you select the delete action from a sortable, filterable table, but do not select an item in the table, a message will be sent informing you that you need to select an item for the action to take place. In-page messages are also used to inform you of any invalid entries when submitting an input form.
Entry fields dynamically indicate whether or not a field is required and whether or not it is in error. Required entry fields are shaded yellow and have a star-like icon by the field name. When an error has been made in an entry field, it displays a red outline, as well as an “x” icon beside the field name.
In the property notebook, tabs appear on the left side of the panel. By default the last tab is always selected when the panel opens. As necessary, the tabbed panels can contain a description and instructions, as well as applicable fields, selection boxes, tables and in-page buttons.
The System Overview panel enables you to view general system health by providing all the key statistics in one place. Using this overview prevents you from needing to open several different panels to piece together the same information. From the overview you can periodically monitor major components of the system, including cluster state, clients, filesets, metadata servers, recent events, and so forth. This is the highest-level monitoring panel in SAN File System.
The overview not only provides statistics on key overall values, status conditions, and some drill downs, but also uses aggregation techniques to summarize conditions.
To access the SAN File System overview, go to the My Work frame, and under Monitor System, click System Overview.
Related concepts
User interfaces
Related reference
Using the Help Assistant
Supported browsers
Using the Information Center