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Chapter 3 Getting Started with CMS
Understanding CMS
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Feature Bar and Search Window
Note
Only features supported by the devices in your cluster are displayed in the feature bar.
You can search for features that are available for your cluster by clicking Search and entering a feature
name, as shown in
Access modes affect the availability of features from CMS. Some CMS features are not available in
read-only mode. For more information about how access modes affect CMS, see the
.
Online Help
CMS provides comprehensive online help to assist you in understanding and performing configuration
and monitoring tasks from the CMS windows.
Online help is available for features that are supported by devices in your cluster. Sometimes the
information in a topic differs for different cluster members. In these cases, the right pane contains all the
versions of the topic, each labeled with the host names of the members it applies to.
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Feature bar
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Search window