Specifications

Inventory Manager Help
Welcome to the online help system for Enterasys NetSight® Inventory Manager. Inventory Manager is a
comprehensive tool that provides network inventory and change management capabilities. Using Inventory
Manager's features, you can easily perform routine network tasks such as configuration backups and firmware
upgrades, and prepare valuable capacity planning reports.
All Inventory Manager documentation is available in the online help system. Online help is available from the
Help menus and Help buttons throughout Inventory Manager. The Help viewer is divided into two panels. The
left panel contains two tabs: the Table of Contents tab and the Search tab. The right panel displays the actual
help text itself.
Accessing Help
There are several ways to access the help system:
For help on any Inventory Manager feature, select the Help > Help Topics menu option.•
For help on the tab currently displayed in the right panel, select the Help > About This Window
menu option.
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Help on a particular window is also often available via a Help button on the window itself.•
Table of Contents Tab
Click on the Table of Contents Tab in the left panel to display a list of help topics for Inventory Manager. The
Table of Contents is "collapsed" when you first open the help. To expand any folder in the Table of Contents,
double−click it. When you click on an item in the Table of Contents, the associated help topic appears in the
right panel. If the help topic you select is located within a long file, you may need to wait a second or two for
the help window to locate your particular topic within the file.
Search Tab
To search for specific instances of a term in all the help topics, click the Search tab in the left panel. In the
Find box, enter the term for which you want to search and press Enter. A list of topics in which the term
appears is displayed, along with the number of instances found in each topic. The first instance in the first
topic is highlighted in the right panel. You can then scroll through that help topic, or select another from the
list, to view the other instances of the search term within the topic.
There is a limit on the number of instances of the criteria that can be highlighted during one search. If the
number of "hits" exceeds this limit, the help window highlights the closest matches within each topic, rather
than all of them, and if the hits greatly exceed the limit, it highlights only the first few hits in each file. You
can't do searches on terms like "the" and "and."
Help Topics with Graphics
Some of the help topics contain a graphic (image) of an Inventory Manager window or tab. These graphics are
usually clickable so that you can navigate easily to the field definition or area of the window on which you
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