Online Help for Optivity Switch Manager Release 1.1

Online Help for Optivity Switch Manager Release 1.1

Using the Optivity Switch Manager window

The Optivity Switch Manager window:

Displays a logical map of a network showing physical connectivity between devices.
Provides tools to access other Optivity Switch Manager features.
Allows you to launch Optivity Switch Manager submanagers.

After the initial discovery, other Optivity Switch Manager submanager applications allow you to monitor or configure discovered devices.

Note: The Optivity Switch Manager window remains open and can display highlighted devices after the Optivity Switch Manager submanager windows open. If you close the Optivity Switch Manager window while Optivity Switch Manager submanager windows are open, the submanagers also close.

The figure below shows the Optivity Switch Manager window.

Figure 1 :

The table below describes the 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.