Optivity Switch Manager incorporates submanagers that provide detailed device information and management capabilities. The submanagers are designed to provide specialized information in an easy-to-use graphical user interface that is consistent in layout across the submanagers. A submanager can query Optivity Switch Manager and instruct the primary application to update the topology view with information relevant to the submanager view. For example, VLAN Manager can instruct Optivity Switch Manager to color all the devices in the view that include members of a particular VLAN.
The submanagers open in a separate window from Optivity Switch Manager. You must have the Optivity Switch Manager window open to access all the submanagers except Device Manager. The submanagers are described in the following sections:
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