174 CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP

Menu Item

Operation

 

 

Enter Submap

Navigates to the submap associated with the currently

 

selected device group. See “Navigation” on page 182 for

 

more information.

Properties

Launches the Properties dialog box for the selected items. See

 

“Viewing Device Details” on page 229 for more information.

 

 

Operations applied to a device group will apply to all devices contained within the device group. 3Com Network Director will intelligently filter out any items from the selection which don't make sense in the context of the requested operation. This gives you a convenient way to apply operations to all members of a device group, without having to manually select individual items.

Tooltips

Basic information about items on the map can be obtained by holding the mouse pointer over the appropriate item for a short period of time, after which a tooltip for the item in question will appear:

Figure 59 A Tooltip

The information displayed within the tooltip depends upon the type of item you hold the mouse point over. For links and layer-3 connections the information displayed depends upon which end of the link you hold the mouse pointer over. The information displayed for a link or layer-3

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