Users Guide

OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release
Graphical User Interface overview
On the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release Graphical User Interface (GUI), you can use menu items, links, buttons, panes, dialog
boxes, lists, tabs, filter boxes, and pages to navigate between pages and complete device management tasks. Features such as devices
list, Donut charts, audit logs, OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release settings, system alerts, and firmware update are displayed at more
than one place. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the GUI elements for easily and effectively using OpenManage
Enterprise–Tech Release to manage your data center devices.
• A—The OpenManage Enterprise menu, on all the pages of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release, provides links to features that
enable administrators view the dashboard (Home), manage devices (Devices), manage firmware baselines, templates, and
configuration compliance baselines (Configuration), create and store alerts (Alerts), and then run jobs, discover, collect inventory
data, and generate reports (Monitor). You can also customize different properties of your OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release
(Application Settings). Click the pin symbol in the upper-right corner to pin the menu items so they appear on all the OpenManage
Enterprise–Tech Release pages. To unpin, click the pin symbol again.
• B—The Dashboard symbol. Click to open the dashboard page from any page of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release. Alternately,
click Home. See Dashboard.
• C—The Donut chart gives a snapshot of health status of all the devices monitored by OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release. Enables
you to quickly act upon the devices that are in critical state. Each color in the chart represents a group of devices having a particular
health state. Click respective color bands to view respective devices in the devices list. Click the device name or IP address to view
the device properties page. See Viewing and configuring devices.
• D—The symbols used to indicate the device health state. See Device health statuses.
• E—In the Search Everything box, type about anything that is monitored and displayed by OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release to
view the results such as device IP, job name, group name, firmware baseline, and warranty data. You cannot sort or export data
retrieved by using the Search Everything feature. On individual pages or dialog boxes, type or select from the Advance Filters section
to refine your search results.
• The following operators are not supported: +, -, and ".
• Text typed as search criterion is case-sensitive.
• The following wildcard characters are not supported: #, @, %, -, :, =, &, $, +, |, /, ., _,(, and ).
• F—Number of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release jobs currently in the queue. Jobs related to discovery, inventory, warranty,
firmware update, and so on. Click to view the status of jobs run under Health, Inventory, and the Report category on the Job Details
page. To view all the events, click All Jobs. See Using jobs for device control. Click to refresh.
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