Overview

General information

The NFM-P navigation tree provides multiple views that list the equipment groups, NEs, routing instances, protocols, and other objects in the NFM-P managed network. Objects are listed in a parent-child hierarchy. You can expand the tree to access child objects or collapse the tree for a broader view. You can access property forms, create equipment groups, and perform other functions using the navigation tree window.

For more information about network objects, see Chapter 11, Working with network objects .

In most system workspaces, the navigation tree window opens by default when the NFM-P client is opened. See Chapter 2, NFM-P custom workspaces for information about workspaces. See To manage a window or form as an external window for information about managing the display of windows in the GUI.

You can use the navigation tree to locate specific objects in the physical and logical network views. See To locate objects in the navigation tree for information about searching for objects in the navigation tree.

The display of objects in the navigation tree is affected by the span of control settings in user preferences; see Span of control in Chapter 1, NFM-P GUI .

You can use the following methods to navigate the tree and manage objects.

Note: Keyboard-based navigation tree operations may not function as expected when you open the client GUI using a third-party access tool, for example, a Citrix server.

The following figure shows the NFM-P navigation tree window, with the Equipment view selected.

Figure 3-1: NFM-P navigation tree - Equipment view
NFM-P navigation tree - Equipment view