Organization of the Solaris Management Console

In the following figure, the console is shown with the Users Tool open.

The main part of the console consists of three panes:

• Navigation pane (at the left) – For accessing tools (or sets of tools), folders, or other toolboxes. Icons in the navigation pane are called nodes and are expandable if they are folders or toolboxes.

• View pane (at the right) – For viewing information related to the node selected in the navigation pane, shows either the contents of the selected folder, subordinate tools, or data associated with the selected tool.

• Information pane (at the bottom) – For displaying context-sensitive help or console events.