HP Network Direr Software Products manual Viewing the VLANs on Your Network, Trace Path

188CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP

To zoom to a device in the map, double-click on its entry in the tree. 3Com Network Director navigates to the submap that the device is listed under, centers the device within the display, and zooms in on the device.

As routers and layer-3 switches are shown in the top-level of the tree, double-clicking on a router or layer-3 switch navigates to the top-level map and zooms in on the device as it is shown in that map.

Viewing the VLANs on Your Network

The Tools > Show VLANs option allows you to filter the map to highlight the VLAN membership of devices in your network. For more information about using this feature see Chapter 13.

Trace Path

The Tools > Trace Paths option allows you to find the physical paths between any two devices on your network and highlight them in the map. You can launch Trace Path in two ways:

■Select the two devices that you want to find the physical paths for on the map and then select Tools > Trace Path.

■Select Tools > Trace Path without first selecting the two devices that you want to find the physical paths for. This launches the Trace Path Wizard, from which you select the two devices that you want to find the physical paths for. See “Using The Trace Path Wizard” on page page 191.

As Trace Path locates physical paths and not logical paths, the Tools > Trace Path menu option is not available when you are viewing the devices in your network grouped by subnet.

Launching Trace Path displays the Trace Path toolbar and highlights the first physical path that was found between the two selected devices: