Owner's Manual

664 Topology Views
The topology view panel includes the following Action menu items:
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Add Content —This opens a pair of component chooser screens. First, you must select the type
of component you want to add. For example:
Contact, Customer, Equipment Subcomponents
(which lets you add both)
, Link, Location, Printer, Service, and Vendor . Notice that if you add
a
Contact connected with a subcomponent, a dotted line connects them when they appear
together in the view.
You can also map supported
Adaptive Service s. See Service Topology on page 683 for
additional information about those.
See also
Creating or Modifying a Contact on page 659,Chapter 13, Resources, Creating or
Modifying a Link on page 646, Location Editor on page 651,
or Creating Vendors on page 654
for more about the screen that appears once you select the type of object you want to add to
the view.
NOTE:
Until you select a link from the subsequent screen, no links appear in a view, even if you select linked
equipment. If you Add a link, the equipment endpoints of the link will appear, even if you do not initially
see them in your view.
- New Link —Select (at least) two components within the view, then click this item. You are
prompted for the type of link you will create. For example:
ATMLink, BGPPeerLink,
EthernetLink, FibreChannelLink, IPNextHopLink, ISIS1PeerLink
, ISIS2PeerLink ,
ISISPeerLink, LogicalLink, OSPFNeighborLink, PhysicalLink, RIPPeerLink, SONETLink .
See
Creating or Modifying a Link on page 646 for more information about configuring the
link you are about to create.
When you discover links between devices and entire network, an out-of-domain indicator
appears if the end point of a link is not yet discovered. If you discover that missing end point,
the topology does not change unless you perform link discovery again.
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Open View —Returns you to the manager described in Topology Views on page 661.
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Refresh —Update the display.
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Reorder —Update the display, calculating the new order based on any changes you have made to
the configuration in
Properties .
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Properties —Alter the properties of this view. See Topology View Properties on page 666.
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Save —Save the view. By default its name is concatenates the creating login ID, date and time.
You can change this in the screen described in Topology View Properties on page 666.
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Print —Print the display. See Printing Topology Views on page 684 for details.
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Hide Overview & Legend —This conceals the right-hand portion of the screen.
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Help —Opens online help for this topic.
- You can also configure the display with Context Menus.