Selecting Items In The Topology; Changing The Layout; Saving View Preferences - Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Administrator's Manual

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Understanding the View Panel

Selecting Items in the Topology

You can use the select tool to click an item in the View panel. When you select an item, the item
becomes highlighted and the Information panel displays detailed information about the item. For
example, in
You can use Shift-Click to select multiple items in the View panel. If you select multiple items, the
Information panel displays data only for the first item selected. You can also click and drag the select
tool to select a group of items. You cannot select links using the click-and-drag method.

Changing the Layout

Click the Overview icon
panel. A small window displays the entire fabric in a miniature (or zoomed out) format (see
This tool includes a gray box that you can drag over the portions of the fabric you want to have
displayed in the larger View panel. This tool helps you pinpoint the portion of a large fabric that you
want to view.
To move nodes, click the Select icon
changes that you make to the locations of the nodes.
Figure 5-4

Saving View Preferences

When you exit the Fabric Manager client, the following topology view settings are automatically saved
and are restored the next time you launch the client:
•
Connection option (orthogonal or straight links)
•
Legend (default is to not display the legend)
•
Mini-map (default is to not display the mini-map)
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Figure 5-1 switch 10.32.151.161 is selected.
in the View toolbar if it is difficult to view an entire fabric in the View
Miniature Topology Overview Window
in the toolbar and then drag a node. Fabric Manager stores the
Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Figure 5-4).