How do I customize my map view?

Purpose

You can set your own zoom level and adjust the behaviour and appearance of the map and objects using the Map Palette controls. You can also save your personal map layout settings so that they are retained in your future NSP sessions, or restore the map to the default common layout.

Note: If you have upgraded from NSP release 23.8 or earlier, your Map Palette settings will have been reset to defaults and you will need to reconfigure them. This action is only required once.

Steps

Use the Map Palette controls on the map palette to adjust the map layout. When objects share the same physical location, the map shows a multi-layered icon shaded in blue. To see the co-located objects individually, drag them off of the multi-layered icon.

 
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Open Network Map and Health, Network Map View.

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Adjust the Map Pallette controls, as described in the table below.

Table 1-1: Map Palette controls

png18.pngFit to Screen

Click this option to zoom the map to fit the selected region to available screen area.

png19.pngClustering controls

Map cluster display options for region-based map (available when a common map layout is configured in NSP):

  • Options to display NE cluster health as a pie chart or a solid circle on the cluster. Object color indicates health.

  • Display or hide region and zone boundaries.

Click Show More to access the following options:

  • Option to move all contained objects when moving a region or zone.

  • Group NEs external to a region or zone with their immediate parent zone or region; the map displays all connectors to zones or subzones that contain the external NEs. This option shows greater detail.

  • Group external NEs with their top-level region; the map displays a single connector to the region icon. This option shows less detail.

Map cluster display options for cluster-based map (available in network of fewer than 2000 NEs and 3000 links, where no common map layout is configured in NSP):

  • Option to arrange NE into clusters, based on proximity

  • Options to display NE cluster health as a pie chart or a solid circle on the cluster. Object color indicates health.

Click Show More to access the following options:

  • Option to adjust cluster inclusion range.

  • Option to adjust the cluster creation threshold for the entire network.

  • Option to adjust the cluster creation threshold for what is visible on the screen.

png20.pngAdjust vertices

Adjust vertices as follows:

  • Show/hide text labels for map objects.

  • Adjust icon size for NEs, zones, and regions.

png21.pngAdjust Links

Adjust link display as follows:

  • Show or hide links between NEs, zones, and regions.

  • Show or hide links when the objects they connect to are outside the map view.

  • Adjust link curvature (i.e., how deep of an arc) between objects.

  • Adjust link grouping threshold.

Click Show More to access the following options:

  • Options to display link group health as a pie chart or a solid circle on the group. Object color indicates health.

  • Show or hide the number of links in a group.

png22.pngMap View

Turn on Bird’s-eye View (shows the entire map in a small inset in the corner).

Adjust the opacity of the background map.

png23.pngZoom

Zoom into and out from the map.

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Steps

Save your personalized map layout or restore it to the default layout.

 
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Click More png5.png, Save As My Layout to save the map display settings as they are currently configured.

If you want to return to the default map display settings, click More png5.png, Restore To Default Layout.

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