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When you install CWSI, it discovers your network starting from the seed device name you specified during installation and displays a map of your network in the CWSI Map window.
While using CWSI, you will often need to locate devices and links, search for specific devices, and create bookmarks to locate specific areas and views of your network. For example, you might find it useful to display and work with a specific view of a VTP domain.
To display the name or address of a device or link, move the cursor over the device or link.
You can display all link or address names:
You can display more information about a specific device, such as the number of ports and the hardware and software versions of the device. To do this follow these steps:
Step 1 Right-click on the device icon to display the device icon pull-down menu.
Step 2 Select Node Attributes.
To display information about the ports of the specified device, select Node Ports.
To display link information, open the Link Attributes window. To do this, follow these steps:
Step 1 Right-click on the link icon to display the Link Icon menu.
Step 2 Select Link Attributes from the Link Icon menu.
The Link Attributes window displays the source and destination of the specified link, and indicates if any discrepancies exist on the link.
Use the CWSI Find window and the CWSI Filter and Highlight function to search for and locate devices in your network.
The Filter and Highlight function is useful if you want to highlight a specific set of devices. For example, if you are deciding where to add a device to your network, you might want to check where the existing Catalyst 5000 switches are located.
The CWSI Find window is useful to locate a specific device name or address.
You can locate specific devices by highlighting them or search by the name or address for a specific device.
To find specific device types, in the CWSI Filter subwindow, select the checkbox next to Device Type to display the drop-down list of available device types in your network and select the device type you want to display.
Below are two examples of how to highlight specific devices in your network.
To highlight all Catalyst 5000 switches, select the C5000 selection box under the device Type submenu in the CWSI Filter subwindow.
The Catalyst 5000 switches in your network map are highlighted.
To highlight all Ethernet links, select the Ethernet link checkbox under the device Type submenu in the Top Services side window.
The Ethernet links in your network map are highlighted.
You can find a switch by searching by the device name, the device address, or the name of an end-user workstation connected to the switch.
To find a specific device or link, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the CWSI Map window, select Edit>Find.
The CWSI Find window opens (Figure 6-1).
Step 2 In the Find Device By field, select the Device Name, IP Address, or End Device Name by which you want to search.
If you enter a device name, the Matches list shows available switch names. If you search by IP address, the Matches list displays a list of available IP addresses. If you enter an end-user device name, a list of available end-user device names will be displayed to help you make your selection.
Step 3 Click Find to start the search.
The switch that you searched for is highlighted in the CWSI Map window.
To mark a specified area on the CWSI network map so you can find it easily, you can add a bookmark.
You can also use the bookmark feature to save a map or portion of the map that you want to retrieve for use later.
To add a bookmark, follow these steps:
Step 1 In the CWSI Map window, display the area where you want to add the marker.
Step 2 Select Bookmarks>Add.
The CWSI Add Bookmark window opens.
Step 3 In the Name field, enter a name for the bookmark.
Step 4 Click OK to save the bookmark.
The Bookmark name is displayed in the Bookmarks menu.
Step 5 To return to the marked location, select the newly named bookmark from the Bookmarks menu.
To delete a bookmark, follow these steps:
Step 1 Select Bookmarks>Edit.
The CWSI - Edit Bookmarks window displays current bookmarks.
Step 2 Select the bookmark you want to delete.
Step 3 Click Delete to remove the bookmark.
To edit a bookmark, follow these steps:
Step 1 Select Bookmarks>Edit.
The CWSI - Edit Bookmarks window displays current bookmarks.
Step 2 Select the bookmark you want to edit.
Step 3 Click Modify to edit the bookmark.
You might find it useful to be able to easily locate a specific VTP domain in the network map. You can select a VTP domain in the CWSI network map and place a bookmark at that location so you can easily redisplay and find the devices and links that comprise that VTP domain.
To do this, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the CWSI network map, select Tools>VlanDirector to launch VlanDirector.
The VlanDirector Names window opens.
Step 2 In the Names window, select the VTP domain you wish to manage. The devices from the selected domain are highlighted in the CWSI network map.
Step 3 Select the highlighted devices. From the CWSI map, select Edit>Select Highlighted.
Step 4 Select View>Zoom to Selected Devices to display only the selected devices from the VTP domain.
Step 5 From the CWSI map, select Bookmarks>Add.
The CWSI Add Bookmark window opens.
Step 6 In the Name field, enter the name for the bookmarked VTP domain view.
To retrieve the VTP domain view at a later time, from the CWSI - Map select the name of the bookmark you just created from the Bookmarks menu.
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