HP Netsight manual Adding Network Elements to your Map, Adding a Device Directly to a Map

Creating Network Maps

Adding Network Elements to your Map

For the most part, adding a device icon to a map simply involves dragging the selected icon or icons from any one of the available views or from another map, or using the standard Copy and Paste commands. When you perform a network Discover operation, all discovered devices are automatically added to the central node database maintained by NetSight Element Manager, and they will automatically appear in the appropriate list and tree views; adding individual devices from the primary window menu bar (via

Insert—>Device) or from the toolbar (via the Insert Device icon) when no map window is active also places the information directly into the central node database (and the appropriate views).

To move a single device from a view onto a map, use the left mouse button to click on the device you wish to add, and drag it into the appropriate map window; to move more than one device, use shift-clickor ctrl-clickto select all of the nodes you want to move.

However, you can also add a new device directly to a map (and automatically to the node database and all appropriate views); this process is described in the following sections.

Adding a Device Directly to a Map

1.Open or activate (as appropriate) the map window to which you wish to add a new device.

2.In the primary window menu bar, select Insert—>Device.

or

In the toolbar, click the Insert Device icon. or

Anywhere within the selected map window (even on an existing icon, if you want), click the right mouse button to display the Map menu (as illustrated in Figure 6-16). Click again to select New Device.

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