HP Netsight manual Map Views, Sample Map View Workspace and Map Window

Overview of NetSight Element Manager

Map Views

Map View windows in NetSight Element Manager provide a third — and perhaps the most flexible — means for viewing information about your network. Using maps, you can create a visual representation of your network: grouping devices by location rather than function, and using a variety of graphical tools (including bitmap backgrounds and drawn objects) to represent connections and other pertinent information about the physical structure of your network. Maps also support Microsoft’s OLE (Object Linking and Embedding), which can be used to link or embed data created via other applications into a map document.

NetSight Element Manager’s map feature allows you to create a three-dimensional representation of your network by allowing you to show not only relationships between devices, but relationships between groups of devices. Individual Map Views can be linked to other Map Views to create a hierarchical structure which is graphically represented in the Map View workspace, again via the Microsoft standard tree control. The overall status of each individual map is also displayed in the workspace; for related maps, each map’s status includes the status of any submaps with which it is associated. These status reports are propagated up the hierarchy, whether individual maps are closed or open — giving you a bird’s-eye view of your network status at all times.

As with the other workspaces, you can create folders in which to nest groups of Map icons; double-clicking on a Map icon will open the associated Map window. Figure 2-5illustrates a sample Map View workspace and an associated Map window.

Figure 2-5. Sample Map View Workspace and Map Window

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