PA Storage Monitor Console
The Console is the administrative interface to PA Storage Monitor.
The red rectangle highlights the navigation pane. Similar to many other Windows products, this navigation pane displays items that you can interact with. Right clicking most items will give you a menu of choices. Selecting an item will cause the large right panel to change to your current selection.
In addition, you'll note that there are buttons in the navigation pane. These buttons categorize different items that you can interact with in the system.
The buttons across the top let you interact with PA Storage Monitor as well as give you feedback.
Activity Graph The Activity Graph at the far left is an indication of system activity. The green line indicates the number of monitors that are running or scheduled to run, and the yellow line indicates the number of actions that have run.
Start/Stop Service The first button on the left lets you start and stop the PA Storage Monitor service. When the Console first starts, it will be grey as the Console queries the operating system to determine if the service is running or not.
Settings The Settings button takes you to the global Settings dialog. Here you configure many aspects of the program. More information is available in the Settings topic.
Smart Configuration This is the place to go any time you need to add additional computers to the system to be monitored. There is more information in the Smart Config help topic.
Bulk Configuration This feature allows you to perform changes to many computers, monitors, actions or reports at once. More info...
Licenses Licenses are installed by copying them into the PA Storage Monitor directory. The Licenses button will display the License Manager dialog to let you see your current licensing status.
Exit This closes the PA Storage Monitor Console. Since the actual monitoring is done by a service, exiting the Console does NOT stop the monitoring of your system.