Command View ESL provides a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) for remote management and monitoring of your Interface Manager card through a LAN. Command View ESL is the preferred UI for controlling the Interface Manager card. In conjunction with the Interface Manager card, Command View ESL provides the following: configuration and management of the Interface Manager card and Fiber Channel (FC) interface controllers; management of the entire library system; hardware inventory and identity information; status information for connected hardware; error reporting and comprehensive error logs; firmware management; license management.

Command View ESL is installed on the management station and communicates with the Interface Manager card through the LAN. The management station processes information from the Interface Manager card and “serves up” the Command View ESL GUI. Users can access Command View ESL, either from the management station directly or through any client on the LAN, by using a browser-based GUI interface. Multiple Command View ESL GUI clients can be open simultaneously across the LAN, and multiple ESL Series libraries can be managed through the Command View ESL software.