30Chapter 2 Using Optivity Switch Manager

Table 1 describes the parts of the Optivity Switch Manager window.

Table 1 Parts of the Optivity Switch Manager window

Part

Description

 

 

Title bar

Displays the application name and software version.

 

 

Menu bar

Provides access to all Optivity Switch Manager commands.

 

 

Toolbar

Provides quick access to commonly-used Optivity Switch Manager

 

commands.

 

 

Scale slider

Provides four zoom levels to magnify the network topology map.

 

 

Contents pane

Displays the network topology map.

 

 

Scroll bars

Provide access to an entire map, table, or other text that spans two

 

pages in the contents pane.

 

 

Status bar

Displays status information and the map legend.

 

 

When you successfully query a device on the network, the Optivity Switch Manager contents pane presents a logical map of the network displaying a variety of information about the network connections. The specific information available on the network topology map depends on the size of the network discovered. For example, in a very large network topology, the device IP addresses and port numbers are not displayed unless you magnify the network topology map using the scale slider.

Optivity Switch Manager menu bar

The menu bar provides menus and commands for operating Optivity Switch Manager and for accessing Device Manager, VLAN Manager, MultiLink Trunking Manager, Multicast Manager, and Log Manager. Table 2 lists the Optivity Switch Manager menus and commands.

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Nortel Networks manual Optivity Switch Manager menu bar, Describes the parts of the Optivity Switch Manager window