HP Netsight manual Sorting Nodes

List Views

Small Icon Detail Format	(View—>Small Icon Detail) Each node appears as a
	line in a multicolumn format. The columns consist of
	the information you have chosen to display from the
	List View Properties window (or the default columns,
	in the case of the All Nodes List View), in the order
	you have specified there. For each displayed
	information type which includes an icon, the small
	(16x16 pixel) graphic will be displayed. This is the
	default view format; it will be applied each time
	NetSight Element Manager is launched.
Large Icon Detail Format	(View—>Large Icon Detail) Each node appears as a
	line in a multicolumn format. The columns consist of
	the information you have chosen to display from the
	List View Properties window (or the default columns,
	in the case of the All Nodes List View), in the order
	you have specified there. For each displayed
	information type which includes an icon, the large
	(32x32 pixel) graphic will be displayed.

Any change made to the display format is applied to the currently selected view for the duration of the current NetSight Element Manager session or until another View selection is made; once NetSight Element Manager is closed and re-opened, however, all views will revert back to the default Small Icon Detail format.

The List View toolbar also contains the Find icon:

Find	This feature allows you to search for a specific node
	in a List View by any of its associated information;
	see Searching a List View, page 4-7, for more
	information on this feature.

Sorting Nodes

By default, List Views displayed in the Small Icon Detail and Large Icon Detail formats described above are sorted in Logical (IP) Address order. However, these views can also be re-sorted by the information in one or more columns. Text fields are sorted alphabetically, numeric fields are sorted numerically, and mixed fields are sorted alpha-numerically; Enterprise, Classes, and Topology values are sorted numerically by assigned identifiers rather than alphabetically by group name.

If Status is selected as a sort column, the sort will update automatically as necessary.

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Sorting is accomplished by clicking on the column heading button for the information you wish to sort by. Clicking on the same column heading more than once alternately sorts the selected information in ascending and descending order; clicking on more than one column heading creates a multi-level sort. The current sort order is indicated by a number

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