User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
1-12 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
To open a pop-up menu that allows you to perform operations (such as filtering, grouping, creating a new
view, expanding or collapsing the view), right-click any resource in a navigator view and select the menu
that best suits your needs. For more information about opening views, see the “Opening Navigator Views”
section on page 1-16.
To see a description of each menu’s function, move the selection highlight to that menu item and press the
context-sensitive help key (for example, press F1).
To display a system menu on a view that is currently open, click Window > Navigation > Show System
Menu.
All navigator views support the Filters and Group By functions; that is, they have built-in system filters that
you can customize. Depending on the view, you can filter and group by different properties. For more
information about these functions, see the “Filtering” section (below) and the “Grouping” section on
page 1-15.
Filtering
You can use the filter to display a preferred subset of the entries in a list. Editors that allow filtering have
the Filters icon available. You use the Filters feature to specify filters that forces the Active System
Manager application to only display the resource type and resource instance information that you require
within the associated views.
Each view comes with a set of built-in filters. These filters screen resources based on their defined roles.
The list of pre-defined filters cannot be removed and their status (disabled vs. enabled) can change based
on the user or administrator profile role. For more information about these pre-defined filters, see
Chapter 8, “Using Inventory.”
To access the filter options or change the way the resource type and resource instance information is
displayed, perform one of the following methods:
• In the navigation view, click the Menu icon and select a filter type.
• In the navigation view, click the Filters icon and the Filters dialog box displays with a list of filter
options in the left pane.
For more information, see the “Accessing Resources via the Filters Dialog Box” section on page 8-8.
As an added feature, user role-based users now have their default inventory views (types and instances)
automatically set with the Filters > Managed Equipment.
The following topics describe filtering functions:
• Creating a Filter
• Adding Rules to a Filter
• Deleting Rules and Filters