HP Netsight manual Building Your Network Map, Adding a Folder

Creating Network Maps

Building Your Network Map

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Before you begin creating maps, it’s useful to spend a few moments thinking about the organization of your network and how best to create a visual representation of that organization for the purposes of network management. If you wish to organize your maps in folders, it’s important to know in advance which folders to create, since you must add new maps from within a selected folder to create that relationship (and maps cannot easily be moved from one folder to another). You may also want to decide whether to arrange your networking devices by their physical location, by their logical grouping, or by some combination of the two.

Each map file is saved in two versions: a .MAP file and a .MRM file. The .MAP file is the version read by NetSight Element Manager. The .MRM file is a text version that can be re-imported into NetSight Element Manager if the .MAP file is corrupted or lost. You can move a map from one folder to another by taking advantage of these duplicate files: simply delete the .MAP file, click to select the folder you want the map stored in (in the workspace), and import the associated .MRM file. Deleting .MAP files from the workspace does not remove the associated .MRM file.

Map-folder relationships will also change as necessary to reflect submap relationships: if you make a map from one folder a submap of a map in another folder, the submap will move from its original folder to the one containing its root map. If you break that submap relationship, however, the former submap moves to the root of the tree hierarchy — not back into its original folder.

In addition to a nested hierarchy of maps and submaps, you may also want to add a few GoTo symbols; note, however, that while these symbols display the status of the maps they represent, this status is not propagated to the map which contains the GoTo symbol.

You can create new folders only from within the Map View workspace; you can add new submaps and GoTo symbols from the Insert menu or the toolbar; and you can add new maps from the File menu or from within the Map View workspace. You can also generate submaps automatically. Each of these processes is described in the following sections.

The instructions provided in this chapter frequently reference menu and toolbar options which may not be available if no maps are open. If you don’t find a menu option where you expect it to be, or if the toolbar option you want to use is not active, check to make sure the Map View page of the workspace is displayed, and that at least one map file is open and active.

Adding a Folder

As a means of organizing a series of maps, you can add a folder to the Map View page of the workspace; each folder you create will be contained within the base Map View folder, and each can contain one or more maps, submaps, and additional folders. Each will also

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