HP Netsight manual About the Map View

Creating Network Maps

About the Map View

The Map View portion of the NetSight Element Manager workspace (illustrated in Figure 6-1) provides a bird’s-eye view of the submap hierarchy you have created among your maps via a standard indented tree structure: maps can be grouped in Folders; folders can contain Maps and/or additional folders; and each map can contain one or more Submaps.

The relationships between maps and folders are defined when the maps and folders are created, and they cannot easily be changed. For example, if you want to group certain maps within a folder, you must first create the folder, then be sure to create the maps from within that folder.

The relationships between maps and submaps are more flexible: you can link two existing maps via a submap icon, or create a new submap when you add a submap icon; you can also change map/submap relationships simply by moving (or removing) a submap icon. Creating submap relationships will move maps from folder to folder, when necessary; breaking those relationships places the former submaps at the root of the workspace hierarchy. All of these changes will be reflected in the Map View workspace.

Click on the Map View tab to display the Map View page in the Workspace.

Map status is propagated up the Map View tree via the status icons: the status of a submap is included in the overall status of the root map; all map status conditions are included in the status of the root Map Views folder.

Figure 6-1. The Map View Page

Each element in the nested submap hierarchy reports its overall status to the next level up in the hierarchy, as illustrated in Figure 6-1above. The map named Too, Jr has at least one element in a critical state, as indicated by the red status icon; that red status is propagated up to the map named New View, Too, of which Too, Jr is a submap. That red status is further propagated up to the main Map View folder, which is always the root folder for all maps and submaps. Map status is displayed and propagated in the workspace whether your maps are open or closed. Note that the plus and minus symbols indicate whether the selected branch is fully displayed or whether additional submaps and/or folders are currently hidden from view. To fully display a branch, click on the plus symbol; to close it, click on the minus symbol.

6-2 Working with Maps