Marco Contextual.

With this selection, Industrial HiVision generates a PDF file for

 every device selected, or for

 all devices.

The PDF file contains information about the device and its settings.

 Make a selection and specify the folder in which you want Industrial HiVision to save the PDF files.

8.2.16 Drawing

You use this selection field to adapt the size of the drawing area for the detail display to meet your requirements. Industrial HiVision provides you with three options for doing this:

 Reduce,

 Enlarge,

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8.2.17 Background image

You use this selection field to load, remove or change the background image in your detail display. The following options are available:

 Paste As Background

When you select “Paste As Background”, you add the image in your clip- board to your detail display as a background image. If the clipboard is empty, this menu item is marked in grey and cannot be selected.

 Select Background Image...

When you select “Select Background Image...”, you add the image from a file to your detail display as a background image. Select the relevant path and the desired file within your folder structure.

Note: High-resolution background images sap the resources of your network management station and therefore reduce the performance of your system.

 Remove Background Image

When you select “Remove Background Image”, you delete the back- ground image in your detail display.

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8.2.18 Search

The find dialog allows you to search for components, MAC addresses or IP addresses in the display.

 Select the “Devices by IP Address” tab page if you are searching for an IP address or “Components by Name” if you are searching for part of a device.

 Enter

 the IP address/MAC address or a part of it, or

 the component name or a part of it without using wild cards.

 Select a device on the left of the tree diagram or a folder in which you want Industrial HiVision to search.

 Click on “Find” to start the search.

Industrial HiVision shows the result of the search in a list of the search dialog. When you double-click on a line in this list, Industrial HiVision selects the component you want to find in the folder frame.

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8.2.19 Auto Topology

The Auto Topology function allows you to automatically create the links between the devices. For the Topology Discovery, Industrial HiVision uses the Forwarding Data Base (FDB) and the LLDP and SNMP functions of the devices.

IEEE 802.1AB describes the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). LLDP enables the user to have automatic topology recognition for his LAN.

Industrial HiVision detects redundancy mechanisms, such as RSTP, redun- dant network coupling or HIPER-Ring. Industrial HiVision represents every redundant connection as a separate connection.

Industrial HiVision can detect the terminal device topology across the subnet- works if the router separating the subnetworks supports the SNMP ipNetTo- PhysicalTable.

 Select _{Edit:Auto Topology} .

 In the dialog for automatic topology discovery, you select how you want Industrial HiVision to execute the Auto Topology function.

Selection Action

Complete network Detects the topology of the entire network, including switch- es, routers, WLAN and terminal devices. Reads large data quantities from the devices. In large networks, Topology Discovery can take up a significant amount of time. Infrastructure Only detects the topology of the infrastructure devices

based on LLDP. Is performed very quickly and sometimes without any gaps.

Table 9: Scope

Selection Action

Devices without management Industrial HiVision derives topology information from devic- es without the management function and from devices with- out an Industrial HiVision license from the information in known neighboring devices. Industrial HiVision represents these unknown devices as a cloud. A cloud can represent one or more unknown devices.

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Then Industrial HiVision queries all the links in the network in accordance with the settings and displays the detected links in the interface.

Selection Action

Create a completely new topology Create completely new topology

Removes all existing connections and clouds. Then creates new topology.

Enhance existing topology Enhance existing topology

Creates new connections and clouds. All existing connec- tions are kept.

Correct a topology Adds missing connections and removes connections that differ from the current topology. Keeps existing clouds if they correspond to the current topology.

Table 11: Procedure

Selection Action

Automatically Industrial HiVision unravels the topology and reassigns the objects.

Manually Industrial HiVision leaves the objects in their current positions.

Table 12: Layout

Selection Action

Current folder Performs the selected actions only in the selected fold- er.

Recursively Industrial HiVision performs the automatic Auto Topol- ogy Discovery in the current folder and all the folders below it, and displays the results in both the current folder and all the folders below it.

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Note: Network components that do not conform to the LLDP specifications or cannot be managed via SNMP can lead to errors in the Auto Topology Discovery.