User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
Active System Manager Overview 1-7
The following topics describe the functions available for perspectives:
• Modifying Perspective Preferences
• Opening Perspectives
• Navigating Perspectives
• Customizing Perspectives
• Saving Your Perspective As
• Resetting Perspectives
• Closing One or All Perspectives
• Deleting Perspectives
Modifying Perspective Preferences
Perspective preferences are set by default; however, you can modify them at any time by performing the
following steps:
1. On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Preferences > General > Perspectives to
display the Preferences—Perspectives dialog box.
2. Modify the preference settings, as appropriate; see Table 1-11 on page 1-37.
3. Click Apply > OK to accept the settings.
Opening Perspectives
To open a perspective, perform the following steps:
1. Open the Open Perspective dialog box by one of the following methods:
• On the Active System Manager Perspective toolbar, click the icon that represents the perspective
you select to open.
• On the Active System Manager menu bar, click Window > Open Perspective and select a visible
perspective or click Other.
2. Select the perspective to open and click OK to display the perspective within the application
environment.
Navigating Perspectives
You can use the standard procedure to open a perspective, but if you are in a working state and want to work
with an existing perspective, you can navigate to a previous or next perspective. To do so, perform one of
the following tasks:
Preferences
(Button)
Facilitates the setting of user preferences.e
Reset Performs current perspective reset to Default.
Table 1-4 Tasks for Each Perspective (continued)
Perspective Preferred Task Chapter Reference