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How to Perform Storage Administrative Actions

An Administrative Action is a storage engine function or service that can be performed on an object or object attributes (object row). Depending on the object and the line item that is selected, the Administrative Actions listed are storage engine actions that can be performed on that line item, and in some cases the whole object. The selectable actions that are listed relate to specific functionality of the object being accessed.

To perform an Administrative Action

1. Select a line item in the object table displayed in the Investigator.

   The Action pane is displayed on the right side of the Investigator window with a list of Navigation and Administrative Actions.

   Note: In some cases, if an action requires parameters and you select multiple rows, the action is not available. That is, it does not appear in the Actions pane. If you want to perform an action on multiple rows, select one line item and the Action pane opens where you can see the action that you want to perform. Select another row and see if the action disappears from the Action pane. If it does disappear, then you can only perform that particular action one line at a time.

2. Select an Administrative Action from the list.

   An Action dialog pertaining to the selected action is displayed.

3. Enter the parameter values appropriate for the action you want performed or skip this step if no entries or selections are required.
4. Click Submit.

   The storage engine performs the action and a confirmation dialog is displayed.

Examples: Administrative Actions available with Data Set objects

When working with Data Sets objects, some of the actions available are:

• Migrate
• Release Idle Space
• Rename
• Move
• Copy
• Delete

Note: To see examples that use these actions, see the chapter "Introduction".