Disk View Window Messages

The Disk View window has a message line at the bottom that displays information about objects and actions. There are two types of message line feedback displayed:

• When you are pointing the cursor at an object, the message line has the following format:

  object_type object_name: attribute=value,...

  If you are pointing at a disk or slice that has a status problem, the message has the form:

  object_type object_name: problem_description, affected_device

• When you are pointing the cursor at an empty portion of the canvas, the following message displays:

  Drop object onto color drop sites to show mappings

  You can select a disk or slice and drag it to the color map at the bottom of the Disk View window. On a color monitor, you have four colors available as drop sites. On a monochrome monitor, you have one color drop site.

Messages Displayed When Pointing at an Object

The following messages are displayed when you are pointing to an object inside the Disk View window:

Slice cntndnsn: size=size, use=use, status=status

You are pointing at a disk slice on the canvas. The name of the slice appears in the format, cntndnsn. The size is the capacity of the slice (for example, 5 Mbytes). The use is either Unassigned, Component, Hot Spare, MetaDB Replica, Reserve, mount_point, swap, Trans Log, or Overlap. The status is reported as OK, Attention, Urgent, or Critical.

Messages Displayed When Dragging an Object

The following messages are displayed when you are dragging an object inside the Disk View window.

Drag slices onto object templates in the metadevice editor canvas

You are dragging an object from the Disk View window. You can drop the slices inside an object or on the canvas of the Metadevice Editor window.