Menu Bar
The menu bar is at the top of the Console and includes the
following menus:
Note: The menu bar and the items in a menu may change when
a tool is opened in the Console.
Console Menu: The Console menu includes, by default, the
following items:
- New Console: Opens a new Console using the startup preferences
defined in the Preferences dialog
(Console tab).
- Open Toolbox...: Opens an existing toolbox in the current
Console window. See To Open a Server
Toolbox or To Open a Local Toolbox
for instructions.
- Preferences: Displays the Preferences dialog, with tabs for
changing the following: Console, Appearance, Toolbar, Fonts, Tool
Loading, and Authentication.
- Console Events: Displays the Solaris Management Console Events log, which provides a comprehensive list of all events and alarms which occur
within the Console. Click the Console Events tab at the bottom of
the Console to list the types of events in the Information pane; you
can limit the types of events displayed in the Console Events log.
- Close: Closes the current Console instance; if this is
the last Console instance, exits from the Solaris Management Console.
- Exit: Exits from the Solaris Management Console.
Edit Menu: The Edit menu includes, by default, the following
items:
- Select All: Selects all the objects in the View pane.
Action Menu: The Action menu includes, by default, the following
items:
- Properties: Displays the properties for the selected tool
-- if properties are defined for the tool. Note that the Properties
item is inactive for many tools.
View Menu: The View menu includes, by default, the following
items:
- Show: Displays the Show submenu, with toggles for
displaying or not displaying the following in the View pane: Tool bar,
Location bar, Status bar, Navigation pane, Information pane.
- View As: Displays the View As submenu, for choosing Large
icon, Small icon, List, or Details view in the View pane. You can also
toggle between Web Style (single-click) and Classic Style
(double-click) actions in the View pane.
- Columns: For some tools, allows you to display or not
display any of the columns available for the tool by checking or
unchecking the item.
- Sort by: For some tools, allows you to sort columns in
various categories, in ascending or descending order.
- Show Commands: Displays the Solaris Management Console tools
command log, which shows commands that have been executed by the management
tools during your current Solaris Management Console session. This is useful
for reviewing the tasks you have completed, or to see the command-line
equivalents for Solaris Management Console tool actions. You can also
have logging information sent to a file.
- Filter (View menu): Displays the Filter dialog for
filtering what is displayed in the View pane; see To Filter View Pane Display for instructions.
- Refresh: Refreshes and redraws the Console.
Go Menu: The Go menu includes the following items:
- Up Level: Moves up one level in the toolbox hierarchy and
displays the result in the Navigation and View panes. This is useful
if the Navigation pane is not displayed (because you have unclicked
Navigation in the Show submenu of the View menu); you can move up in
the hierarchy in the View pane by clicking Up Level.
- Home Toolbox: Displays your home toolbox, as defined in
the Console tab of the Preferences
dialog.
Help Menu: The Help menu includes, by default, the following
items:
- Overview: Displays help viewer with Overview in topic
pane; Overview provides a general description of the Solaris
Management Console.
- Contents: Displays help viewer with table of contents in
navigation pane.
- Index: Displays help viewer with index in
navigation pane.
- Search: Displays help viewer with Find function in
help viewer navigation pane.
- About Console: Displays the Solaris Management Console version number and copyright and trademark information.
User ID and Spinning Globe: At
the right end of the menu bar is a globe icon, which spins when some
Console action, such as loading a tool, is taking place. To the left
of the globe when an authenticated user has logged in to the Console
is the ID of that user. No user ID is displayed until you have logged
in as a user or assumed a role.