User's Manual

154 CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP
The Tree The tree is displayed on the left-hand side of the 3Com Network Director
main window and lists all of the devices that have been discovered in
your network, grouped into subnets and device groups. Clouds are not
listed in the tree.
Clouds appear automatically in the network topology for
three reasons.
■ They are used to represent sections of the network
where 3Com Network Director was unable to
determine the topology.
■ They are shown between the two end points of a
WAN link to indicate the type of the WAN link, and
to allow you to apply operations independently to
each end of the WAN link.
■ They are used to show the number of clients
connected to each wireless access point.
A circle represents a subnet within your network. The
label in the center of the circle indicates the address of
the subnet being represented. If the subnet has not yet
been discovered then the label includes the text
“(Undiscovered)”.
3Com Network Director allows you to group related
devices together into a device group. Each device group
is represented by a cloud contained within a rectangle.
For more information about creating device groups see
“
Device Groups” on page 172.
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