3Com 3C15500 - Network Director - PC, User Manual

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Components
The following section describes the features of the main window and
describes the operations you can perform from this window.
Map The map provides a graphical representation of the topology of your
network. The map is covered in more detail in
“Working with the Map”
on page 151 .
Tree The tree displays the devices within your network grouped by subnet and
device group. The tree, subnets and device groups are covered in more
detail in
“Working with the Map” on page 151 .
Toolbar The toolbar provides access to the most commonly used map navigation
and administration tools.
Some items in the toolbar are not always applicable. When this is the
case, the toolbar button is grayed out.
Hovering the mouse cursor over a button in the toolbar causes a tooltip
for that button to be displayed. The tooltip describes the operation
associated with the button.
The operations provided by the toolbar buttons are equivalent to their
corresponding menu items. For more information see
“Main Menu” on
page 64 .
Status Bar The status bar provides detailed information about items within the map
and tree, as well as providing a location for minimized progress dialog
boxes, such as the
Network Discovery Progress dialog box.
The status bar provides information on the current selection as follows:
■
For a selected map item the text displayed is:
Selected <map item type>
“
<map item label>
”
For example, if you were to select a cloud that had the label Acme ISP
Network and was only connected to by WAN links, the text displayed
would be:
Selected WAN Cloud
“
Acme ISP Network
”
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For a selected link the text displayed is: