HP Network Direr Software Products manual Pull-Right Menu for Clouds, Subnets

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cloud should appear in a particular submap or the top-level map is based upon the devices that are connected to it:

■A cloud will appear in a submap if it is connected to one or more devices that are present in that submap.

■A cloud will appear in the top-level map if it is only connected to a single device, and that device is a router or layer-3 switch.

■A cloud will appear in the top-level map if it is connected to two or more routers or layer-3 switches.

This means that adding a link to a cloud can cause the cloud to be added to other submaps and may cause it to be removed from the top-level map. Similarly, deleting a link to a cloud can remove the cloud from one or more submaps and may cause it to be added to or removed from the top-level map. For more information about adding and deleting links in the map see “Linking Items in the Map” on page 204.

Pull-Right Menu for Clouds

Right-clicking on a cloud in the map produces a pop-up menu. The following table describes each of the menu items in the pop-up.

Table 21 Clouds Menu Options

Menu Item	Operation
Properties	Launches the Properties dialog box for the selected map items and
	links. See “Viewing Device Details” on page 229 for more
	information.

Subnets

Subnet icons represent submaps that contain devices in the same IP subnet or subnets. A device is considered to be part of an IP subnet if it has at least one IP address which is contained in the subnet. This includes routers and layer-3 devices.

Subnets are only shown in the map when you choose to view the devices in your network grouped by subnet, but are always shown in the tree.

As well as appearing in the top-level map, a router or layer-3 device can appear in multiple subnets. However, a router or layer-3 device only appears at the top-level of the tree.

In the top-level map the links between subnets and routers or layer-3 switches are shown as layer-3 connections, while in submaps the links