About Settings (the Management Server perspective)
Use the Settings page on the Management Server console to set up the Management Server environment and view its details. The Settings view is also referred to as the Management Server perspective.
Related information
Table: Settings overview
| If you want to... | Do the following... |
|---|---|
| Add or remove hosts | Click Host to configure and manage the hosts in the Management Server domain. |
| Right-click Data Center and select Add Hosts . You can add hosts with agent or agentless configurations. | |
| See Adding the managed hosts to Management Server using an agent configuration . | |
| You can also remove the hosts from the Management Server domain. | |
| See Removing managed hosts from the Management Server domain . | |
| Add enclosures | Click Device to add enclosures for deep discovery. |
| Right-click Data Center and select Add Enclosure . | |
| Note: You need to install Storage Insight Add-on to add enclosures for deep discovery. | |
| For more information on adding enclosures using the Storage Insight Add-on, refer to Veritas Operations Manager Management Server Add-ons User Guide . | |
| Configure switches | Click Device to add switches for deep discovery. |
| Right-click Data Center and select Add Switch . | |
| Note: You need to install Fabric Insight Add-on to add switches for deep discovery. | |
| For more information on adding switches using the Fabric Insight Add-on, refer to Veritas Operations Manager Management Server Add-ons User Guide . | |
| Configure virtualization servers | Click Virtualization to add and manage virtualization servers. |
| Right-click Data Center and select Add Virtualization Server . | |
| See Adding a virtualization server . | |
| You can also remove the virtualization servers from the Management Server domain. | |
| See Removing a virtualization discovery configuration . | |
| Configure LDAP/AD authentication | Click Security . |
| Select the Brokers & Domain tab to add LDAP/AD authentication. | |
| See Adding Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Active Directory-based authentication on Management Server . | |
| Configure access roles for user groups on perspectives | Click Security . |
| Select the Permissions tab to assign permissions to user groups on perspectives. | |
| See Assigning permissions to user groups for a perspective . | |
| See Deleting permissions assigned to user groups on a perspective . | |
| Deploy add-ons, hot fixes, packages, or patches | Click Deployment to install the add-ons, or deploy the hot fixes, packages, and patches. |
| See Installing a InfoScale Operations Manager add-on . | |
| See Installing a InfoScale Operations Manager hot fix, package, or patch . | |
| Create rules for generating alerts | Click Alert & Rules to monitor the fault status and performance information of your data center |
| environment by reviewing alert notices. | |
| Define the faults and risks | Click Faults & Risks to monitor the fault status and possible risks to the managed resources |
| and also analyze each fault to understand its implications and causes. | |
| Connect to SORT | Click SORT to configure settings for downloading information on price tiers and SFHA updates. |
| See Updating the price tier information automatically on Management Server . | |
| See Updating the price tier information manually on Management Server . | |
| Configure the Management Server settings | Click Management Server to configure the Management Server settings such as SMTP and proxy server settings. |
| See Configuring the Management Server settings . | |
| Manage policy signatures | Click Policy Signatures to view the available policy signatures, or to enable or disable policy signatures. |
| See About policy checks . | |
| See Enabling or disabling policy signatures for the data center . | |
| Manage extended attributes | Click Extended Attribute to add, modify, or delete extended attributes. |
| See Adding an extended attribute . | |
| See Modifying an extended attribute . | |
| See Deleting an extended attribute . | |
| View information about all configured hosts | Click Host . |
| From the navigation tree you can view information about all hosts in the data center. | |
| See Viewing the hosts configured in the Management Server domain . | |
| View information about all configured enclosures | Click Device . |
| From the navigation tree you can view information about all the enclosures configured for deep discovery. | |
| See Viewing the enclosures discovered in the Management Server domain . | |
| View information about all configured switches | Click Device . |
| From the navigation tree you can view information about all switches configured for deep discovery. | |
| See Viewing the switches discovered in the Management Server domain . | |
| View information about all configured virtualization servers | Click Virtualization . |
| From the navigation tree you can view information about all virtualization servers. | |
| See Viewing the virtualization servers configured in the Management Server domain . | |
| View information about add-ons, hot fixes, packages, or patches | Click Deployment . |
| From the navigation tree you can view information about all add-ons, hot fixes, patches, and packages. | |
| See Viewing information about a InfoScale Operations Manager add-on . | |
| See Viewing the InfoScale Operations Manager hot fixes in the repository . | |
| See Viewing information about the maintenance release packages and patches for InfoScale Operations Manager . | |
| See Viewing information about the base release packages for InfoScale Operations Manager . | |
| See Viewing available SFHA updates . | |
| View information on tasks | Click Audit & Tasks to view the list of all tasks and their details. You can track the operations that |
| are either in progress or that have completed for the various data center objects. |