HP Netsight manual Excluded Nodes, Tree Views and Maps

Tree Views

Excluded Nodes

NetSight Element Manager’s architecture — which stores all node information in a central database, and lets you choose how to view it — provides you with great flexibility in the management and storage of node information. One of the ways you can manage your collected node information is through the use of Excluded Nodes. There are two levels of node exclusion: exclusion from an individual view, and exclusion from all views. Exclusion from an individual view removes a node from that view and places it on the Excluded Nodes list displayed in the Tree View Properties window; exclusion from all views removes the selected node from the central node database into the Excluded Nodes list.

For more detailed information on the process and effect of node exclusion, see Excluded Nodes in Chapter 4, List Views.

Tree Views and Maps

NetSight Element Manager can help you sort out the relationship between your tree views and your maps by helping you locate the map on which a node has been placed.

The Go to Map function requires your map files to be open, though they need not be

TIP active. NetSight Element Manager will not be able to locate a node’s map if that map is closed.

Using the Go To Map Function

You can use the Go to Map function to locate a node on the map on which it has been placed — provided, of course, that the map is open.

1.Open and/or activate the Tree View which contains the node whose map you wish to locate, and click to select one node.

2.Select View—>Go to Map from the primary window menu bar, or click the right mouse button on the selected node, and select Go to Map from the resulting menu.

If the selected node is associated with a map which is open, the correct map window will be activated, and the selected node will be highlighted.

If the selected node is associated with a map which is open but minimized, the minimized map icon will be highlighted.

If the selected node is associated with a map that is closed, or is not associated with any map, a message window opens, indicating that no map containing the selected node could be found.

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