HP Netsight manual General Properties

List Views

In the toolbar, click the Properties icon.

or

Right-clickon the selected device and on the resulting menu select Properties.

NOTE

If you access the Properties window from within a List, Tree, or Map View, you will note that there are two properties-related options available on the menu which appears when you click on the selected device with the right mouse button. Select the Properties option to launch the appropriate Device Properties window (as displayed above); selecting the List View, Tree View, or Map Properties option will launch the Properties window for the appropriate view. For more information on tree views, see Chapter 5, Tree Views; for more information on maps, see Chapter 6, Creating Network Maps.

Use the appropriate tabbed pages to configure the following display properties. Note that, if you are editing the properties for a device which has already been added to the node database, you may use the Apply button to set any changes you make in any tabbed page without closing the window. (The Apply button does not appear in the Properties window for newly-added devices.) Clicking OK will both save the changes and close the window.

General Properties

The General Properties tab is displayed by default, both when a device is individually added to the database, and when the Device Properties window is launched (see Figure 4-21, page 4-29). Use this window to configure the following properties:

Name	By default, this field will display the MIB-II sysName assigned
	to the device, if one has been assigned; note, however, that
	editing this name does not edit the sysName value set at the
	device. The value set in this field will be displayed in the Name
	column in all list views which contain one, and will also be
	used to label device icons in Map View windows.
Description	By default, this field will display the MIB-II system
	description (sysDescr) assigned to the device; note, however,
	that editing this description does not edit the sysDescr value set
	at the device.
Notes	Adding text to the Notes field performs the same function as
	adding an object note to a device icon or to a list view item
	(and, in fact, text added to an object note will be displayed
	here, and vice versa). For more information about adding an
	object note, see Chapter 6, Creating Network Maps.

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