HP Netsight manual About List Views, List View Workspace

Chapter 4

List Views

Using list views to view node information; using the List View workspace; creating and editing list views; changing the appearance of your list views; excluding nodes; adding network elements to the node database; editing node properties

NetSight Element Manager stores information about all discovered or manually-inserted devices in one place: its central node database. This information can be viewed in a wide variety of customizable ways via List Views, Tree Views, and Maps.

About List Views

One of the ways NetSight Element Manager allows you to see, organize, and work with the nodes in your database is through List Views. List Views, as their name implies, display the contents of your central node database in a collection of lists. These lists can be configured in a variety of ways: you can choose the information about each node that you wish to display, the order in which that information will be displayed, and the font used to display it; you can also choose which nodes you wish to display in a list by configuring a filter which selects or omits nodes based on the characteristics you choose. Specific nodes can also be excluded from individual List Views, while remaining present in the central node database. List Views provide enormous flexibility in the display of your central node database without altering its contents.

NetSight Element Manager provides you with several default list views, including a read-only view called the All Nodes List View, which always displays the entire contents of your central node database. Each List View can be accessed and (where appropriate) edited via the List View Workspace; the workspace also allows you to create new list views, and organize your views via folders.

The List View Workspace

Using the List View workspace you can access and edit existing views, create new ones, and organize your views by arranging them in a hierarchy of folders.

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