WelcomeThis page provides a quick tour of the main windows of the Navigator 2 GUI and directs you to the detailed explanations of the various windows, panes, wizards, and dialog boxes within the GUI. It includes the following topics: To view the information for each topic, click the link to that section.
Navigator 2 does not support the functions of the web browser itself to control movements between windows and dialog boxes.
For example:
Press the Backspace key.
Hold down the Alt key and press the <-- key (left arrow).
Right-click on the page, and select return from the menu.
If you do any of above operations in Navigator 2, the screen may blank out and contiguously show the message, "Now loading." If that happens, click X (the close button in the top right-hand corner of the window or dialog box to close it and restart that operation.
When first opened, the Navigator 2 GUI displays two panes in the main window.
An explorer pane which contains a directory tree that includes the names of the resources contained in Navigator 2 . The resources are:
Arrays - the windows that are used to manage the arrays. No special access rights are needed to use these windows.
Administration - the windows that are used to set up user accounts and passwords - Administrator rights are required to see and use these windows.
Settings - the windows that are used to set up user profiles and access rights. Administrator rights are required to see and use these windows.
An application window that includes the startup display for the resource that is selected in the explorer pane.
Detailed information about this window is contained in the Main Window help page.
The Arrays window (also called the Array List window) displays the list of arrays that have been added to Navigator 2 and includes controls to configure and manage the arrays and the hosts to which the storage space they contain is allocated. Detailed information about this window is contained in the Arrays window help page.
The Array Properties window displays the properties of a single array that has been selected from the Arras window.
The is used to manage Navigator 2 users. It includes features and controls to add and delete users, and to set up passwords. Detailed information about this window is contained in the Administration window help page.
The following topics within this online help provide information that may be helpful in understanding the information on this page, and/or may provide additional information that is related, but not required to understand this topic.