User guide

12-8 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
Network Topology Views
Manipulating Map Elements
Map elements (nodes and links) can be resized, cut and pasted, and deleted, either using
commands from the topology view menus, from the pop-menu enabled with a
right-cursor click on the map background, using specific keyboard short cuts, or (under
Windows NT or Windows 2000) through the regular Windows mouse and cursoractions
and keyboard shortcuts.
Forexample,youcanresizeanindividualnodebyselectingthenodeanddoingoneofthe
following:
• Using the cursor to grab one of the resize handles that appear when the node is
selected, and dragging the handle to resize the node
• Selecting the Inflate Nodes or Deflate Nodes command from the Map Menu, or by
using the keyboard shortcuts for those commands (see the sections “Inflating the Map
Nodes” and “Deflating the Map Nodes” on page 12-21).
Map Element Description Panel
When you select a map node or link with the cursor, a panel on the right-hand side of the
window displays information about the node or link.
For map nodes the information panel displays the following:
• Node name (an editable namefor all but devicenodes and devicehypernodes)
• Node annotation field (for device nodes and device hyper nodes only)
• Node type (Device, Submap Node, L2 Cloud, Decoration Node, Text Node, or Hyper
Node)
• Status (Up, Down, or None)
• IP (IP address for a Device node, n/a for any other node type)
• MAC (MAC address for a Device node, n/a for any other node type)
• Vendor (Device vendor name for a Device node, n/a for any other node type)
• Product (Product name for a Device node, n/a for any other node type)
• Device(DevicenameobtainedfromthesysNamevariableforaDevicenode,n/afor
any other node type)
For links, the information panel displays the following for each link endpoint:
• Thenameofthenode