Persisting Gui Preferences; Tasks - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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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:
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The Switch Admin GUI preferences that persist are:
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The Name Server GUI preferences that persist are:
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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:
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The Monitor section of the Tasks menu provides access to the following options:
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Basic or Advance mode
Last selected tab by the user
Table column sorting
Table column positions
Basic or Advance modes
Table column sorting
Table column positions
Auto refresh interval selection check box
Auto refresh interval value
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"
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.
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
Name Server entries" on page 56 for more information.
on page 121 for more information.
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