HP Netsight manual List Views and Maps, Selecting and Deleting Orphans

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List Views and Maps

NetSight Element Manager can help you sort out the relationship between your list views and your maps in two ways: by allowing you to select (and, if you wish, delete) any nodes in a view which have not been placed on a map; and by helping you locate the map on which a node has been placed.

Both the Orphan and Go to Map functions require your map files to be open, though they

TIP need not be active. NetSight Element Manager will not be able to locate a node’s map if that map is closed, and any nodes located on closed maps will be marked as orphans.

Selecting and Deleting Orphans

Nodes that are displayed in a list view but not placed on a currently open map are recognized by NetSight Element Manager as orphan nodes. By using the Select Orphans or Delete Orphans options from the Edit menu, you can highlight these “orphan” devices in your list view, and, if you choose, delete them.

To select orphan devices:

1.Activate the desired list view and select Edit —>Select Orphans from primary window menu bar. Any nodes that are not located on an open map will be highlighted in the list view.

To delete orphans:

1.Activate the desired list view and select Edit —>Delete Orphans from the menu bar.

2.The standard Node Delete window opens. Select the appropriate deletion option, and click OK.

For more information on the options for deleting and excluding nodes, see Excluding Nodes from an Individual View, page 4-18, and Excluding Nodes from the Central Node Database, page 4-22. For more information on maps, see Chapter 6, Creating Network Maps.

To more accurately select and/or delete orphans from list views, you should have your

TIP maps open when using these options. NetSight Element Manager only recognizes a node as being located on a map when the appropriate map is open.

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