Roles And Tasks - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Figure 9 The iManage Taskbar

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Roles and Tasks: Displays the roles and tasks on the left panel
Administration: Enables you to carry out role intallation and role
management
Help: Launches global help for the utility
Each button on the taskbar has roll-over help associated with it; if you position
the cursor over the icon, the icon's name appears on the task bar, to the right
of the Help icon.
The DNS and DHCP services have been logically organized into roles and
tasks in a way that is intuitive to network administrators. Each role consists of
a set of tasks arranged in a hierarchical and top-down manner that is easy to
administer.
To view the roles, click the Roles and Tasks icon on the taskbar.
At the top level, there are two roles that you can install and manage: DNS
Management and DHCP Management. The tasks under each of these roles are
logically arranged in a top-down manner. A role, depending on its current
state, is preceded by a plus or a minus sign. An administrator can expand a role
such as DNS Management to see the tasks it contains or collapse it for a more
concise view. This can be done by clicking the plus/minus sign next to the role.
The organization of roles and tasks follows the containership rules of object
creation and manipulation in DNS and DHCP. For example, if you expand the
DNS Management role on the left pane, the logical tasks this role contains