Browsers

Three browsers can be accessed from the Browse menu on the Metadevice Editor window. These include:

• Slice Browser

• Metadevice Browser

• Hot Spare Pool Browser

The browsers provide similar functionality, enabling you to view all information about the slices, metadevices, and hot spare pools and drag these objects to the Metadevice Editor's canvas for manipulation. The only noticeable differences are found in some of the information displayed and in the Set Filter windows.

The Slice Browser window is show in Figure 4-21.

Figure 4-21 Slice Browser Window

The Slice, Metadevice, and Hot Spare Pool browsers all have the same window title bar and choices on the menu bar. The File menu enables you to exit the browser. The Filters menu enables you to set the filters and turn them on and off. The View menu enables you to change the order in which information is displayed in the device list. However, there are some subtle differences in the dialog boxes used to set the filters.

The device list varies in the following ways:

• Slice Browser Device List - To view additional information about the slices listed here, point to a slice and double-click the SELECT button. The Slice Information window displays information about the slice and provides access to the Disk Information and Associations windows. The Slice Browser device list contains the information shown in Table 4-17.

  Table 4-17 Slice Browser Device List Information

  Field	Function
  Device Name	The device name, for example, c1t0d0s2.
  Size	The total size of the device.
  Disk Type	The type of the disk as listed in the /etc/format.dat file, for example SUN0535, SUN1.05, or DEFAULT.
  Status	Reported as OK, Resyncing, Enabled, Critical, Spared, Urgent, or Attention.
  Use	Contains one of the following values: Unassigned, Trans Log, Trans Master, MetaDB Replica, Component, File System currently mounted on slice, Overlap, or Hot Spare.

• Metadevice Browser Device List - To view additional information about the metadevices listed, point to a metadevice and double-click the SELECT button. An information window is displayed. The Metadevice Browser device list contains the information shown in Table 4-18.

  Table 4-18 Metadevice Browser Device List Information

  Field	Function
  Name	The metadevice is represented as dn, where the default value for n is a number in the range 0 to 127.
  Status	The status is reported as OK, Critical, Urgent, or Failed.
  Size	The total size of the metadevice.
  Use	The use is either Unassigned, Submirror of dn, name of a file system, Master of dn, or Trans Log.
  Type	The type is reported as either Trans, Concat/Stripe, Mirror, or RAID.

• Hot Spare Pool Device List - To view additional information about the hot spare pools listed, point to a hot spare pool and double-click the SELECT mouse button. The Hot Spare Information window is displayed, showing a list of the metadevices that have an association with the hot spare pool. It also shows information about the disks in the pool. The Hot Spare Pool device list contains the information shown in Table 4-19.

  Table 4-19 Hot Spare Pool Device List Information

  Field	Function
  Name	The name of the hot spare pool is displayed as hspnnn, where nnn is a number in the range 000 to 999.
  Status	The status is OK, Broken (if all slices in the hot spare pool are broken), or Attention (if one or more slices are in use).
  Smallest	The size of the smallest slice in the hot spare pool.
  Largest	The size of the largest slice in the hot spare pool.
  Spares	The number of hot spares in the pool.
  Spares in Use	The number of hot spares currently in use.

Accessing Objects in the Browsers

All objects in the device list of any of the three browsers can be moved to the Metadevice Editor's canvas for manipulation.

Setting Browser Filters

The three browsers have configurable Filter windows that are available using the Set Filters choice in the Filter item on the menu bar. The filters are used to change the way information is displayed in the device list. Figure 4-22 shows the Slice Filters window.

Figure 4-22 Slice Filter Window

Table 4-20 explains the items in the Slice Filter window.

Table 4-20 Slice Filter Window Items

Window Region	Function
Use	Three radio buttons in this region enable you to filter the display to only show the following:  Available for use as - The menu selections here include: Anything, Hot Spare, Replica, Metadevice, or Trans Log. Anything is the default. Currently in use as - The menu selections here include: Anything, File System, Swap, Replica, Metadevice, Hot Spare, or Trans Log. Anything is the default. Don't care - The filter is ignored.
Device Name toggle button	Turning on the name toggle button enables you to specify a device name. The two choices on the menu enable you to search for names that match or do not match. Wildcard character support includes both the asterisk (*) and question mark (?), which match any number of characters and any single character respectively. Matches is the default.
Size toggle button	Turning on the size toggle button enables you to specify a size for the filter. The menu button selections include: from (a field is added for specifying a "to" range), greater than, less than, equal to, and not equal to. The default is equal to. A size menu button enables you to specify Gbytes, Mbytes, Kbytes, and Sectors.
Disk Type toggle button	Turning on the Disk Type toggle button enables you to select the types of disks you wish to have displayed in the browser. The menu always enables you to select Any, but the other selections depend on the types of disks attached to your system.
Broken toggle button	Searches only for slices that have a "broken" status.

The Finder

The Finder is used to locate an object in the Metadevice Editor Window, or to locate the device associated with a specified mount point. The Finder is accessed from the Browse menu on the Metadevice Editor window.

• To locate an object inside the Metadevice Editor window, select the Find choice and either type the device name, or click the radio button beside Mount Point and type the mount point to find (see Figure 4-23). If the object is anywhere on the canvas, it is placed in the upper left corner. The object will become the current selection (any previously selected objects will be deselected.) If the object is in the Device List, it is opened and placed in the upper left corner of the canvas. The text fields are not case sensitive. Wildcard character support includes both the asterisk (*) and question mark (?). The asterisk matches zero or more characters and the question mark matches one character.

Figure 4-23 Finder Window