HP Network Direr Software Products manual Linking Items in the Map, Deleting Items from the Map

204CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP

items to several submaps without having to launch the dialog box for each submap.

A newly added cloud is initially present only in the submap that you add it to. However, as soon as you add a link to the cloud the normal cloud behavior takes over. For more information see “Clouds and Submaps” on page 168.

Linking Items in the Map

Links can be added to the map between two devices, a device and a cloud, or between two clouds. To add a link, select the two map items that you wish to link and select Edit > Add Link. An unvalidated link will be added between the two map items. For more information about unvalidated links see “Unvalidated Links” on page 164.

After adding a link between two devices, or between a device and a cloud, you may wish to set the port or interface that the link is attached to on the device(s). For more information about how to set the port for a device at one end of a link see “Properties Dialog Box for a Node” on page 236.

Deleting Items from the Map

Any map item or link can be deleted from the map by selecting it and selecting Edit > Delete. Deleting an map item or link will remove it from all submaps that it is present in. The only way to re-add a map item is to either re-discover it or use the Add Map Item dialog box.

If you delete an map item or link from the map that is still present in your network and then subsequently rediscover the portion of network that the map item or link is on then 3Com Network Director will rediscover that map item or link and add it back into the map.

If you delete a subnet or device group from the map then all items within that subnet or device group will be removed from the map.

Layer-3 connections cannot be manually deleted from the map. However, if you delete a subnet then all layer-3 connections to that subnet will be automatically removed from the map.