HP Netsight manual About Submap Icons, Building a Map Hierarchy

Creating Network Maps

From within the Map View workspace, you can create, delete, or rename folders and maps, and delete or rename submaps; you can also launch the Properties window for any map or submap. Each of these functions is described in the following sections.

About Submap Icons

Using Submap icons to link maps has two results: first, the map defined as the submap reports its status — and that of its component parts — to its defined root map; and second, the hierarchical arrangement that results from defined submap relationships is graphically displayed in the Map View workspace. For example, if you have created one map called BUILDING_A, and a second map called FLOOR_1, you can link those two maps into a hierarchical structure by adding a submap icon representing FLOOR_1 to BUILDING_A; that submap icon will change colors to reflect the current status of FLOOR_1, and that submap relationship will be displayed in the tree structure shown in the Map View. You can then either widen the hierarchy by creating additional maps that report their status directly back to BUILDING_A, or deepen the hierarchy by creating additional maps that report their status to FLOOR_1 (which in turn reports its collective status back to BUILDING_A). Again, all of these relationships are displayed in the Map View tree structure.

A wide map hierarchy has many maps at the same level, and fewer nested layers.

A deep map hierarchy has many nested layers.

Figure 6-2. Building a Map Hierarchy

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