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StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library User's Guide Revision 6 E24606-06 |
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# 2 Basic User Interface Operations

This chapter briefly outlines Accessing the User Interface, Navigating the User Interface, Using Common Controls, and Controlling Screen Refresh.

## Accessing the User Interface

To access the SL150 browser-based user interface, you must have a log-in account. If you do not yet have an account, contact an SL150 library administrator.

Once you have an account, you must log in to access the interface and log out when finished, as described below.

### Log In

Log in to the SL150 browser-based user interface as follows:

1. In a compatible browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, navigate to the hostname or IP address of the library.

   If you are accessing the library user interface for the first time following a new installation or firmware upgrade, your browser may warn you that the connection is untrusted. This is normal. The browser has requested a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connection and expects to have the target web server's host name and IP address confirmed by a certificate from a third-party. Since the library's web server host name and address have been newly configured during library initialization, the server has no third-party credentials. So the server returns a self-authenticated certificate, triggering the browser warning.

2. If the browser warns that the HTTPS connection is untrusted, configure the browser to trust the connection. The process varies by browser, so follow the browser's on-screen instructions.

3. When the SL150 user interface Log In dialog appears, enter your user name in the User ID text field.

4. Enter your password in the Password text field.

5. Press the Log In button.

### Log Out

For security reasons, whenever you are finished with a browser-based user interface session or must leave a session unattended, always log out using the procedure below.

1. In the dashboard area at the top of the interface, immediately above the host connection state control, click on the Log Out text link.

2. Wait until the Logged Out dialog indicates that you have successfully signed out of the library.

3. If you want to log in again, press the Go to Log In button and see Log In .

4. Otherwise, you may close the browser window, if desired.

## Interpreting the Graphical Library Display

The Library screen of the SL150 user interface lets you view the locations and characteristics of library components at a glance. You can view the whole library or, if parti toned between hosts, a single partition at a time.

Bevel-edged, colored rectangles represent tape cartridges. Data cartridges are dark gray. Cleaning cartridges are orange. Diagnostic cartridges are blue. Labeled cartridges display a representation of a barcode, while unlabeled cartridges and unreadable labels are represented by a blank label. When you place the cursor over one of these tape icons, the icon is highlighted and a fly-over tool tip displays the corresponding slot address and label value.

If you are viewing one partition in a library that dedicates resources to separate host applications, resources that are assigned to the other partition are grayed out.

## Navigating the User Interface

You navigate between the different parts of an SL150 user interface screen, menu, or list using the mouse and/or the tab and arrow keys on the keyboard. You select interface elements by clicking the mouse or pressing the Return key on the keyboard:

- If you select a library object, such as a tape cartridge, drive, or magazine, the interface displays a context menu listing object properties and available actions.

- If you select a status indicator, the interface displays more detailed information in a pop-up window.

- If you select one of large buttons in the menu on the left side of a screen, the user interface switches to the screen named in the button.

## Using Common Controls

The SL150 displays a wide range of information in tabular form. These data tables include a common set of controls that let you control how data is displayed and made available to users. This section describes the following controls:

- View

- Show More Columns

- Reorder Columns

- Export

- Print.

### View

The View control lets you change the way that data is displayed in a properties table. When you select the View button, a context menu provides the options described below.

- The Columns option lets you specify the properties that the table displays. You can elect to Show All properties, to show specified properties, or to Show More Columns.

- The Detach option opens the data table in its own popup window.

- The Reorder Columns option lets you change the order of the fields within the rows of the table.

- The Export option lets you restrict the display to records that meet specified criteria.

### Show More Columns

The Show More Columns dialog lets you selectively show and hide the data fields that appear in the records shown by a tabular data display.

1. To display a column, select the column heading from the Hidden Columns list at left, and press the right arrow button (>) to move the heading into the Visible Columns list at right.

2. To display all of the columns, press the right double arrow button (>>) to move them into the Visible Columns list.

3. To hide a column, select the column heading from the Visible Columns list at right, and press the left arrow button (<) to move the heading into the Hidden Columns list at left.

4. To hide all of the columns, press the left double arrow button (<<) to move them into the Hidden Columns list.

5. Press OK to save the changes and exit or Cancel to discard the changes.

### Reorder Columns

The Reorder Columns dialog lets you change the order in which the columns of a tabular data screen are displayed. To make changes, proceed as follows:

1. In the Visible Columns list, use the scroll down and select the column heading of a column that you want to move.

2. Use the controls to the right of the list to move your selection to the top/front of the list, up/forward one, down/back one, or to the bottom/end of the list.

3. To move your selection to the top of the Visible Columns list (and thus to the front/leftmost column of the table), click on the top up arrow button.

4. To move your selection up one level in the Visible Columns list (and thus to the left one column in the table), click on the lower up arrow button.

5. To move your selection down one level in the Visible Columns list (and thus to the right one column in the table), click on the upper down arrow button.

6. To move your selection to the bottom of the Visible Columns list (and thus to the last/rightmost column of the table), click on the bottom down arrow button.

7. Press the OK button to make the changes, Cancel to discard them.

### Export

The Export option of a tabular display downloads the contents of the data table to your desktop in an HTML-based `.xsl` file format that is compatible with current spreadsheet applications, such as Microsoft Excel 2010 and Apache OpenOffice Calc 3.4. You can also view these files in web browsers: simply rename the file using the `.html` file extension in place of `.xsl`.

### Print

The Print option of a tabular display reformats the screen data as a new, print-friendly HTML document that you can print with your local printer.

## Controlling Screen Refresh

If you find automatically refreshed interface screens distracting, you can use the Preferences control to pause and resume automatic refreshes of the browser-based user interface. Proceed as follows.

### Pause and Resume Automatic Screen Refresh

1. In the dashboard area at the top of the interface, click the Preferences control.

2. From the context menu, select Pause Automatic Refresh.

   The interface content will not update itself until you proceed to one of the following steps.

3. When you are ready to update the screen, use your web browser's reload/refresh control.

4. If you want to resume automatic screen refreshes, click the Preferences control again, and select Resume Automatic Refresh from the context menu.