Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

• Banner—The banner provides links to the PowerVault Manager Help, Setting the date and time, User settings, and the Log Out option.
• Menu pane—Clicking an option on the menu pane on the left side expands a dropdown list of menu choices. Clicking a menu option displays applicable content in the management pane. The menu pane options include Dashboard, Provisioning, Settings, and Maintenance.
• Management pane—The management pane shows system status relating to the selected menu in a summary format, allowing you to monitor and interact with the system. Where applicable, you can expand summary sections by clicking the slide-over arrows to view more information about the system status and make applicable changes to system settings and configuration. You can click on the information icon to view content that defines or explains more information about a feature/option.

Icons in the interface

The following table displays a list of the most common icons found in the PowerVault Manager.

Table 1. PowerVault Manager icons

Icon	Name	Use
	Abort/Cancel	Aborts or cancels an operation.
	Apply	Applies an edited operation or selection.
	Critical	Indicates that the item's health is critical, or that an alert or event has Critical severity.
	Collapse	Collapses a table row to hide information about an object.
	Expand	Expands a table row to provide more detail about an object.
	Dashboard	Indicates that the Dashboard menu is selected.
	Degraded	Indicates that the item's health is degraded, or that an alert or event has Error severity.
	Delete	Lets you delete a value or object.
	Disk	Indicates an operation was performed on a disk.
	Disk group	Indicates an operation was performed on a disk group.
	Edit	Lets you edit a single value or options within an entire row or table.
	Error/Fault	Indicates that there is an error or fault with the system.
	Export/Upload	Lets you export or upload a file.
	Favorite	Indicates that the graph selected is a favorite and will display in the compact view of the dashboard.
	Healthy/OK alert	Indicates that the item's health is good, or an alert or event is resolved or acknowledged.
	Host	Identifies a host.
	Host group	Identifies a host group.
	Information	Opens a small window that defines or provides more information about a feature or option.
	Informational	Indicates that an alert or event is informational.
	Initiator	Identifies an initiator.
	Maintenance	Indicates that the Maintenance menu is selected.
	Maintenance tasks	Indicates that either maintenance needs to be performed or has already been performed to the specified item.
	Primary replication volume	Identifies the primary replication volume.
	Provisioning	Indicates that the Provisioning menu is selected.
	Resume	Resumes a suspended operation.
	Schedule	Indicates that a specified task will take place at defined times.
	Secondary replication volume	Identifies the secondary replication volume.
	Secured	Indicates that the system is secured using FDE.
	Settings	Indicates that the Settings menu is selected.
or	Slide-over arrows	Opens or closes a panel that contains detailed information about an object.
	Snapshot	Indicates that a snapshot of the volume was created.
	Suspend	Suspends (pauses) an in-progress operation.
	Unsecured	Indicates that the system is not secured using FDE.
	Volume	Identifies the primary volume.
	Volume copy	Indicates the volume is being copied to a new volume.
	Warning	Indicates that an alert or event has Warning severity.