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Setting the Map Display
You can set the display properties for each parent network map and subnet map.
Open the map window for the network map, right-click an empty area of the map to display the right mouse menu and then select Properties. Click Display.
Use these settings as default for new maps. If this option is selected, WhatsUp Gold applies the settings for these map properties to all new maps that you create.
Auto Resize. If this is selected, the zoom level of the map will adjust as the size of the window changes. If the window containing the map was reduced to half of the original size, the map will reduce accordingly so that you can still see the entire map. If this was not selected, as the window is reduced, the zoom level does not change and some of the map will not be visible.
Device Name. Displays the font used for the device's display name. Click the Change Font button to open the standard Windows font selection dialog box. Select the font properties you want to use and click OK. The "Sample Label" shows the new font selection.
When Clip Names is selected, the display names for devices are terminated at the first space or period in the name, thus shortening the display name. When Wrap Names is selected, long display names are wrapped at every space or period in the name.
Display unconnected link lines as stubs. If this is selected, the map will display short lines for links that are not connected anywhere. If this is cleared, only connected links are displayed. See the following section for a description of "stubs" and "connecting lines".
Colored Link Lines
Colored link lines provide a quick map view that allows you to easily determine which map objects are connected as well as the polling result (up or down) of them. The SNMP SmartScan will create both stubs (non-connected links) and connected links as appropriate, based on the information it has available. It only creates them for "Interface" services.
There are three ways to create colored links
Note: Service scanning must be enabled and the "Interface" service must be included in the scan.
Colored links can be rendered in one of two ways: stubs and connecting lines.
- Stubs represent a service that is not connected to some other host, for instance an unused interface on a router. They are drawn as short lines extending out from the host. The first unconnected interface is drawn straight up (12 noon) and the rest are evenly distributed around the host in a clockwise fashion. Optionally, you can choose to display or not to display the stubs.
- Connecting lines represent a service connecting two map objects. They are drawn as lines from one map object to another. If two map objects have "mutual" links, the single line can consist of more than one color (if one object is up and the other is down). The center-point of the line back to the up object is green, while the other half of the line going to the down object is red. In essence, the color of the line represents the state of the service on the host that the color touches. Example: If the red part of the line touches "System A" and the green part of the line touches "System B", then we know that some service on "System A" has a problem.
Note: Link lines should not be confused with "attaching lines." To learn about this, see "Attached Lines".
Links can be rendered in one of three colors: green, red and gray.
Manually connecting and disconnecting colored links
- When creating links manually, you are always creating a connected link. If there already was a stub for that service, it will be replaced by the connected link.
- When disconnecting links manually, connected links will become stubs, and then stubs will disappear entirely. Therefore, if it is currently connected, it takes two steps to completely get rid of a link.
Note: You can multi-select in the service list when disconnecting, so you can quickly disconnect all links from a host.
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