HP Network Direr Software Products manual Editing Device and Port Selections

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Figure 316, above, shows an example of a port selection being edited.

The Add Port, Remove Port and Add by type buttons are not visible when the dialog box is used to edit a device-only selection, as used with device-based configuration templates.

If the Configuration Editor dialog box is being used to edit a device-based configuration template, then the Selection Editor dialog box will only show the devices in the current selection, and will allow the addition of devices from the current map to the selection. However, if a port-based configuration template is being edited then the Selection Editor dialog box will additionally allow all ports belonging to the currently selected devices to be viewed, and will indicate which of these ports is currently selected. In turn, it will also allow the modification of both the devices and ports which are selected.

Editing Device and Port Selections

When the Selection Editor dialog box is launched to view or edit a selection, all items in the selection will be displayed in the Selection Contents tree, on the left of the Selection Editor dialog box. By default, this will initially be based on the devices, end-stations and/or links currently selected in the map, according to the type of configuration template that the selection applies to, as follows:

For device-based configuration templates, the selection will contain:

■all devices that are selected in the map.

For port-based configuration templates, the selection will contain:

■all ports attached to links that are selected in the map

■all ports attached to end-stations that are selected in the map

■all devices that are selected in the map. Note that none of the ports will be selected on these devices by default, unless selected by one of the previous two points.

A device that is not currently in the selection can be added by clicking the Add Device… button. This will display the Find Device dialog box to allow a choice of devices to add to the selection. This dialog box can be used to find devices in the map by various criteria and add them to the selection being edited. The devices chosen with the Find Device dialog box will be added to the selection, and displayed in the selection contents tree.