HP Netsight manual Editing Your Map

Creating Network Maps

You can also perform the standard Cut, Copy, and Paste options on embedded or linked objects in your map. If you copy an embedded object and paste it to another map, the source data will be copied into the new map; if you copy a linked object, the source file pointer will be copied into the new map.

Cutting or deleting an embedded object (including an Object Package) will remove its pictorial representation from the map and strip out the application data; cutting or deleting a linked object will remove the pointer to the source document (although the document itself will remain at the location from which it was linked).

Editing Your Map

You can use the standard Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, and Select All options on the primary window Edit menu, the standard Toolbar, and the map right-mouse menu to perform basic map editing functions; you can also use the Delete key on your keyboard, and the ctrl-drag-and-drop function for copying (hold down the Ctrl key while dragging and dropping to copy rather than move an object). These functions perform the way you would expect them to for any object — icon, symbol, text, link, or graphic element — in your map. However, there are a couple of special cases you should be aware of.

First, note that deleting a device from a map does not necessarily delete that device from the central node database; when you delete the last instance of a device icon that appears in any open map, you will be offered a series of choices as to how far you want the delete to go (see Figure 6-37): deleting from the Active View (the default selection) removes the device from the selected map only; deleting from All Views moves the node into the Excluded Nodes database; and deleting from the Database removes the node entirely. See Chapter 4, List Views, for details.

NOTE

If you select the All Views or Database option for a device which is still represented on a map which is closed, that device’s icon will be in an unknown state the next time you open that map. You can either delete the icon or re-define it using the appropriate IP address; note that re-defining the icon will re-add the device to the central node database.

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