HP Netsight manual Creating Network Maps, Working with Maps

Chapter 6

Creating Network Maps

Building a map hierarchy; about the Map View; creating new maps; adding submaps and GoTo symbols; generating submaps automatically; adding nodes to a map; importing MRM maps; customizing your maps; aligning map objects; saving maps

NetSight Element Manager’s mapping capabilities provide a powerful means for creating logical and/or physical representations of your network. Unlike List and Tree Views, Map Views are not populated automatically; you can create as many maps as you need, and add and arrange node icons in any way you like. Maps can also be nested via a submap hierarchy, which can be displayed at a glance via the Map View page in the workspace. You can add device icons directly to your maps, or simply drag them in from any existing view; you can also add a variety of symbols to your map, and take advantage of Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology to add objects created by other applications.

Working with Maps

NetSight Element Manager creates and maintains maps without assigning any default hierarchical structure to them: each map is created and maintained as an independent file. If you wish, however, you can define relationships among any number of independent maps by establishing links between them. These links set up a sequence of status reporting that results in a de facto hierarchical structure defined by the direction in which maps report their status to other linked maps.

NetSight Element Manager allows you to create a nested hierarchy of maps via the use of submap icons. In this nested hierarchy — which can be adjusted and changed as needed

— each map reports its status (and the status of its subparts) to all related maps.

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