The LibMON Home Page is the first page you see each time you open LibMON. This page graphically illustrates dynamic library event and summary information.
The content area of the LibMON Home Page is divided into two management areas:
The dominion field at the top of the LibMON Home Page displays the name of the server. To the right of this field are the Help icon and the Stick Page Push Pin icon. These icons appear on each LibMON Web page. For more information about these and other fixed window elements, see TABLE 1.
You can access four menus from the LibMON Home Page:
The options on this menu allow you to customize the library page layout, refresh the library information, and navigate to the Contact List Page.
Menu Item |
Description |
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Properties |
Opens the LibMON Home Page Properties dialog box, which allows you to change how the library information is displayed in the library management area. For more information about this dialog box, see To Select the Library Page Layout. |
Refresh |
Updates the contents of the library management area. |
Contact List |
Opens the Contact List Page. See To List the Contacts for a description of this page and how to use it. |
This menu includes options for creating new libraries and contacts.
This menu provides options that allow you to change the display attributes and sort order for the selected management area.
The options on this menu vary depending upon the management area or object type selected.
If a library is selected, the following menu options are available:
If an event is selected, the following menu options are available:
Menu Item |
Description |
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Properties |
Opens the Event Property Book Page for the selected event. This option is not available if more than one event is selected. |
Delete1 |
Deletes the selected event. |
1 This option is not available to guest level users. |
The left side of the library management area provides summary information for each managed library in either a large icon or table format, depending on the setting of the Library Page Layout option. To access this option, select Properties from the LibMON Home menu. The available settings are:
A library is considered available when LibMON is able to communicate with the tape library successfully--without any errors indicating a warning or failure condition. When a library is not available, LibMON displays the library image or library icon against a red background.
At the right side of the library management area are two buttons: Physical View and Logical View. These buttons provide links to the Physical View and Logical View Pages. For more information about these pages, see The Physical and Logical View Pages.
The event management area, at the bottom of the LibMON Home Page, summarizes the library and LibMON system events logged by the server. The events are displayed in table format.
Each row in the table corresponds to an event in the log. By default, the icon in the first column indicates the event category:
Subsequent columns are user-configurable, as defined in the Event Display Attributes dialog box. For more information, see To Set the Event Display Attributes.
The Event manager automatically updates the contents of the event management area when LibMON detects a new event. LibMON adds new events to the table in the order specified in the Event Sort Order dialog box.
For a complete list of library events that are reported to LibMON, refer to the SCSI specification information provided in the library documentation.