Using Dialog Boxes

Administrators typically use dialog boxes to submit tasks or other requests to the Storage Administrator. Dialog boxes can contain selectable buttons and/or fields that accept information. Some dialog box fields contain default values that can be changed. Items that are not applicable are greyed out.

To use a dialog box, select the appropriate items and/or type the appropriate information and then click one of the following buttons to initiate or cancel the task/request:

OK	Perform the current task/request and close the dialog box.
Apply	Perform the current task/request and continue to display the dialog box.
Cancel	Cancel the current task/request and close the dialog box. (If you have already clicked Apply, this does not cancel the task that is in progress.)

Some dialog boxes contain the following buttons:

Browse	View and select existing objects.
View	View existing objects.
Show Options	Show optional settings for this task.
Reset	Reset the contents of the dialog box (and any associated dialog boxes) to the default settings.
Help	Display information about the contents of the dialog box.

Specifying Objects in Dialog Boxes

Most Storage Administrator dialog boxes contain one or more object name fields. If you select an object before you launch the task, the resulting dialog box may include the selected object's name. If the object name field is empty, you can specify an object in one of these ways:

Type the object's name.
Click the Browse button next to the object name field and then select the object from the resulting browse dialog box. Most browse dialog boxes consist of a tree (left pane) and grid (right pane). To select an object in a browse dialog box, click on the appropriate object group in the tree and then click on the desired object in the grid. Figure 2-10 “Browse Dialog Box” shows a sample browse dialog box.

Figure 2-10 Browse Dialog Box

In some cases, you can specify multiple objects (separated by white space) in a single field. To select multiple objects from a browse dialog box, hold down the Control key and click on each object. To select a range of adjacent objects, select the first object and then hold down the Shift key while selecting the last object in the range.

Specifying Disks and Disk Groups in Dialog Boxes

You can specify the object's disk group by preceding the object name with the disk group name (diskgroup_name/object_name). The disk group name is required if there are multiple objects with the same name (in different disk groups) on the system.

Disks in disk groups have two names:

device name
The physical disk device name (or disk access name).
disk name
The Volume Manager disk name (or disk media name). This is the logical name given to the disk by the Volume Manager or the administrator.

Some dialog box fields require the device name and others require the Volume Manager disk name.

Specifying Object Sizes in Dialog Boxes

When you type the size of an object in an input field, you can specify sectors, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes by appending an s, k, m, or g to the size. If you do not specify a size unit, the size defaults to sectors.

Using Dialog Boxes

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