System Administration Task Flow

Task
Description
For Instructions
Basic Administration Tasks
  • Maintaining site information
Enter basic site and customer information such as addresses, contact name, and so on.
  • Discovering devices
Find devices that are physically attached to the host system or are accessible on the Ethernet network.
  • Displaying the Start Agents Window
  • Disabling a Specific Agent
Selectively activate or deactivate the monitoring agents.
  • Starting and stopping devices
  • Disabling the cron using the GUI
  • Disabling the cron using the CLI
  • Activating monitoring on a device
  • Deactivating monitoring on a device
Selectively activate or deactivate the monitoring agents.
Configuration Tasks
  • Changing configuration options
Change the configuration of default software options.
  • Reviewing a Configuration
Verify the validity of the software configuration.
  • Copying a configuration to another agent
  • Recovering a configuration
Recover the configuration by copying the configuration from one agent to another.
  • Adjusting default monitoring frequencies
Adjust the monitoring frequencies for each device category.
System Utilities Tasks
  • Changing system timeout settings
Adjust the timeouts used by the monitoring agents.
  • Erasing cache of selected device
Deletes the last report generated by instrumentation modules. Data will be permanently deleted.
  • Running the agent program manually
Run the monitoring agent manually.
  • Run Scripts
Run pre-selected scripts from the GUI.
  • Running CLI scripts from the GUI
Run the Run Commands on an Array script from the GUI.
  • Running the Run Commands on an Array script from the GUI
Run the Retrieve Tokens From an Array script from the GUI.
  • Running the UNIX process status script from the GUI
Run the UNIX PS script from the GUI.
  • Changing the Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment's default password
Change the password from the default root password.
  • Maintaining user login roles and permissions
Set up permissions for users.
  • Customizing window settings
Change the default GUI window options.
  • Defining and Setting up Administration groups
Sort devices into meaningful groups for system administration purposes.
  • Launching an external web-based application
Launch external browser-based software.