Using Management View; Viewing The Event Frame - Promise Technology VTRAK E610f Product Manual

VTrak E-Class Product Manual

Using Management View

Management View provides the actual user interface with the VTrak, including
creation, maintenance, deletion, and monitoring of disk arrays and logical drives.
Function Tabs control specific actions and processes. This window changes
depending on which item you select in Tree View and which tab you select in
Management View itself.
Click the Help button in Management View to access online help for the function
that is currently displayed.

Viewing the Event Frame

To view the Event Frame:
1. Click on View in the Header.
2. Click the Show Event Frame popup option.
The VTrak user interface will display the Event Frame below Management
View.
3. Click View again to hide the Event Frame.
In the event frame, events are listed and sorted by:
• Item Number – A consecutive decimal number assigned to a specific event
• Device – Battery, controller, logical drive, physical drive, port, etc.
• Event ID – The hexadecimal number that identifies the specific type of event
• Severity – Information, Warning, Minor, Major, Critical, and Fatal. The
severity level is user-specified. See "Setting-up User Event Subscriptions"
on page 73.
• Time – Time and date of the occurrence
• Description – A brief description of the event
Sorting Events
You can sort the events by Item Number, Device, Event ID, Severity, Time and
Date, or Description.
Click on the link at the top of the column by which you want to sort the events.
After you click on the item, a triangle icon appears.
• If the triangle points upward, the column is sorted low-to-high or old-to-new.
• If the triangle points downward, the column is sorted high-to-low or new-to-
old.
Click the link a second time to change to flip the triangle and reverse the sort
sequence.
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