Disk Manager's Main Window

Figure 11-4 shows the important areas of the Disk Manager's main window.

Figure 11-4 Disk Manager's Main Window

Here are some brief descriptions of the areas within Disk Manager's main window:

• Current Context - Specifies the server where you are managing disks. You can change the current context by choosing Load from the File menu or by clicking on the Load Context icon in the tool bar.

• Menu Bar - Displays the menus that enable you to perform operations in Disk Manager. For detailed descriptions of the menus, see online help.

• Tool Bar - Displays icons that provide an easier way to select commonly-used operations provided by the main menu, such as cutting, pasting, and launching other tools. When you move the mouse pointer over an active icon, the message area describes what operation the icon will perform. You can choose Toolbar from the View menu to turn the tool bar off or on (by default, it is turned on).

• Main Browser - Displays a hierarchical view of the disk controllers, SCSI targets, and disks for the current system context. You can use the expand/collapse buttons to expand or collapse the view of the SCSI targets and disks under each disk controller. The main browser initially displays the disk controllers for all the available disks in the current context, in their collapsed state.

• The + and - Buttons - Are three state buttons that are used to expand and collapse the hierarchical structure you are viewing. The three states are:

  • Collapsed all (the + is displayed)

  • Collapsed managed objects (the +/- is displayed)

  • Expanded all (the - is displayed)

    The +/- state means that the corresponding entry is only partially expanded or collapsed. Clicking on a button in this state will further expand the entry.

• Filter Message Area - Displays whether a filter is on or off, and if a filter is on, how many disks are filtered.

• Message Area - Provides information about the main window or icon where the mouse pointer is located.

• Disk List - Displays the type and size information for the disk(s) currently selected in the main browser.

• Slice List - Displays the slices and their sizes for the disk(s) currently selected in the disk list.

Selecting Multiple Disks

If you have multiple disks that are the same vendor type and have the same physical geometry, you can perform an operation on them simultaneously. This is called batch editing or batching. To select more than one disk in the main browser or disk list, click SELECT (by default, the left mouse button) on the first disk. Then select each subsequent disk by pressing the Shift key and clicking SELECT.