User guide

84 DSView Installer/User Guide
4. Click Show hidden items if you wish to display hidden units in the Unit Views Customization
window with a transparent icon.
5. Click Save and then click Close. The window will open containing the Visibility column. The
Visibility column will display Hide for each unit.
6. Click Hide for each unit. The display of the selected unit will be turned off in the Unit Views
window if Show hidden items was not selected in the Unit Views Customization window.
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If Show hidden items was selected, the hidden unit will appear with a transparent icon.
To show a hidden unit:
1. Click Customize in a Unit Views window. The Unit Views Customization window will open.
2. Click Visibility in the Available Fields column and then click Add. Visibility will be moved to
the Fields to Show column.
3. Click Show hidden items.
4. Click Save and then click Close. The Unit Views window will open containing the hidden
items and the Visibility column. Hidden items will have a transparent icon and the Visibility
column will display the Show listing.
5. Click Show. The selected unit will be made visible, the transparent icon will be changed to a
non-transparent icon and the Visibility column will display the Hide listing.
Customizing Unit Views windows
By default, the following fields appear in the Unit Views windows:
• Name - Unit names. You may click on a name to display and change information or specify an
icon to associate with a unit. See Managing Units on page 95 for information.
• Type - Type of target device or managed appliance model. See Changing Unit Overview Infor-
mation on page 95 for information about assigning a type to a target device.
• Status - Current activity level of a unit. The following status IDs may display for units:
• Idle - The unit is powered up with no connection.
• In Use - The unit has at least one active connection.
• Status Unknown - The status of the unit was reported to the software but cannot be
obtained for an unknown reason.
The following status IDs may display for target devices only:
• No Power - The target device is powered down.
• KVM Blocked - The connection path to the target device is blocked because a cascade
switch is already in use.
• Partial Power - The DSView software cannot determine the power state of the target
device, or the software received a mixed power state from the target device. For example,
if a target device has a KVM connection and an SPC connection, the software will prompt