Task Areas and Display Panes

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Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

A task area is a set of logically related functions grouped together in DPM Administrator Console. The console has five task areas: Monitoring, Protection, Recovery, Reporting, and Management. Each task area consists of three panes: Display, Details, and Actions.

  • The Display pane lists items associated with the current task. For example, the Display pane for the Protection task area displays the names of protection groups and lists the members of those groups. The Display pane for some task areas is subdivided into tabs that group subsets of functionality. For example, the Display pane for the Management task area is divided into two tabs: Agents and Disks. The Agents tab provides for management of file agents, and the Disks tab provides for management of storage pool disks.

  • The Details pane provides details, such as properties and status information, about items selected in the Display pane. For example, the Details pane for the Protection task area displays status, recovery range, and other details about selected protection group members.

  • The Actions pane provides access to functionality associated with the current task and, in some cases, the item selected in the Display pane. For example, the Actions pane for the Protection task area provides a command for creating protection groups. When a specific protection group is selected in the Display pane, the Actions pane also provides a command for adding members to the group.