The purpose of the Assistant is to make available the most commonly used commands in the program.

To access the Assistant, select Assistant in the Perspective Bar. Then select the object from the drop-down located on the left side of the window that you want to perform tasks on. To perform tasks on disks, disk groups, and volumes select StorageAgent from the drop-down.

Command icons appear in the pane located on the right side of the window when StorageAgent is selected. Clicking a command icon launches the dialog for the command.

The type of commands displayed in the Assistant is controlled by selecting an object in the object pane and an activity in the activity pane located on the left side of the window. For example, selecting Disk in the object pane and Modify in the activity pane displays commands that pertain to modifying disks. Selecting All Objects in the object pane and selecting All Activities in the activity pane would display all the commands that are available in the Assistant.