HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Viewing Element Topology and Properties276
• Right-click an element, and then select Show Element Topology from the drop-down
menu.
2. Right-click an element in the topology.
3. From the drop-down menu, select Show Port Details.
The ports are displayed.
Showing the Impact of an Element
You can display an element's impact. For example, assume you want to replace a switch. You can
use this feature to determine which elements in the network would be impacted by taking the switch
off the network.
To find an element's impact:
1. Right-click the element from which you want to obtain impact information.
2. Select Show Impact from the drop-down menu.
The other elements in the path of the element you right clicked are highlighted in yellow. For
example, assume you right-clicked the Oracle instance klu2e (shown in the following figure)
and selected Show Impact from the drop-down menu. The elements on which klu2e is