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DSView Installer/User Guide
You may choose whether an expanded node will collapse when another Expand Node arrow is
selected. See Changing user options on page 18 for more information.
Clicking on a link that does not contain an arrow will display its corresponding window. Some
windows contain additional links, which may display another window and a different side
navigation bar.
Sorting information in a window
The order of rows in a list displayed in a DSView Explorer window may be changed by clicking the
heading of one of the displayed columns. When you click a column heading, the order of the list
rows will change to alphabetically ascending, based on that column. If you click the column
heading a second time, the order will change to an alphabetically descending order. An up arrow
indicates ascending order and a down arrow indicates descending order.
If you are using the Topology view, sorting is first performed on parents (managed appliances) and
then on the children (target devices) beneath the managed appliances.
Filtering information in a window
Some DSView management software windows allow you to filter list information by providing a
text string that will be used to retrieve matching items. Filtering is useful if you have many target
devices or other items that extend over many pages. Windows that allow filtering contain a text
field and Filter button in the upper right portion of the window, as shown in Figure 1.2.
Filtering is performed over the entire list of items, not just those displayed in the current window,
and can provide a shorter, more exact list of items. When filtering is performed, the text in every
row and column in the window is searched for the specified text string. For example, you may wish
to perform filtering to list only DSR1021 switches in the Name column, target devices with KVM
connections in the Action column, CPS appliances that are idle in the Status column and so on.
If the Topology window is filtered, both parent and child units will display in the filtered view. For
example, if you filter for a child named target device 1 that is attached to a DSR1021 switch, target
device 1 will appear below the DSR1021 switch in the filtered view.
Table 1.5 lists the ways you may specify text strings for filtering.
Expand All Nodes - Click this button in the upper right corner of the side navigation
bar to expand all nodes and display additional links.
Collapse All Nodes - Click this button in the upper right corner of the side navigation
bar to collapse all nodes and their links.
Collapse Node - Click this button to collapse an opened tree branch in the side
navigation bar and its links.
Expand Node - Click this button to expand a closed tree branch in the side
navigation bar and display its links.
Table 1.4: Side Navigation Bar Icons (Continued)