This topic describes each of the icons on the IBM Director Console.
Along the top of the
IBM Director Console interface
is a toolbar containing nine icons.
Figure 1. IBM Director Console toolbar
From left to right, the icons are briefly described below:
- Discover Systems
- Starts discovery of all systems and devices. Clicking the menu arrow for
this icon allows you to select a type of system or device to discover.
- Message Browser
- Opens the Message Browser window.
- User Administration
- Opens the User Administration window.
- Event Action Plans
- Opens the Event Action Plan Builder window. Clicking the menu arrow for
this icon allows you to select the Event Action Plan Wizard, event logging
options, or help for event action plans.
- Scheduler
- Opens the Scheduler window. Clicking the menu arrow for this icon allows
you to open help for scheduler.
- Inventory
- Opens the Inventory Query Browser window. Clicking the menu arrow for
this icon allows you to build a custom query, edit the software dictionary,
collect inventory, create custom collections, create or view inventory monitors,
or open help for inventory.
- Resource Monitors
- Opens the Resource Monitors window. Clicking the menu arrow for this icon
allows you to import a plan file, open the All Available Recordings or All
Available Thresholds window, or open help for resource monitors.
- Software Distribution
- Opens the Software Distribution Manager window. Clicking the menu arrow
for this icon allows you to manage file distribution servers, view package
history, create a package category, open a software distribution package,
or open help for software distribution.
- Remote Control
- Opens the Remote Control window. Clicking the menu arrow for this icon
allows you to open help for remote control.