VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 12, Using the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Graphical User Interface
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI
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There are multiple sections within the GUI. The following list describes the sections shown in the
graphic, which depicts the Main Window:
◆ Menu Bar - allows you to perform various VxDBA operations. The options in the Menu Bar
will vary according to the object in the object tree that you have selected.
Note To access online help from the Menu Bar, click Help > Contents.
◆ Tool Bar - provides shortcuts to various operations available in the Menu Bar. The Tool Bar is
icon-based and dynamically changes when you select something from the Object Tree. When
you use your mouse to point at an icon, a description of the icon appears.
◆ Information Tabs - allow you to view different information about the same object in the
Object Tree. For example, if you are viewing details about a database, you can click a different
tab to view different information about that database.
◆ Object Tree - is a dynamic hierarchical display of VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle,
VERITAS Volume Manager, and VERITAS File System objects and other objects on the
system.
◆ Status Fields - indicate the status of the object you are viewing. To change your view, click
one of the Information Tabs at the top of the window.
◆ GUI Status Area - displays GUI status, which is provided through VERITAS Enterprise
Administrator. See the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator documentation for more
information.
Within the GUI, options that are not available are displayed as grayed-out and are not clickable.
Also, you can point to an object on the screen and a description of the object is displayed in a
pop-up field.
The following table describes terms associated with the use of the mouse:
Term Definition
Click Press and release the mouse button.
Double-click Click the mouse button twice (quickly).
Right-click Press and release the right mouse button.
Press and Hold Press and continue to hold down the mouse button.
Point Move the tip of the pointer onto an item on the screen.
Select Click the mouse button while the pointer is directly over the item to be selected.