Map Window Buttons

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Map window toolbar buttons affect the map or selected nodes within the map window.

 

 

map window buttons

 

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Select: toggles cursor to select arrow to allow selection of items from a map.

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Pan: toggles cursor to pan hand to allow easy navigation around a map.

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Zoom with Marquee: toggles cursor to zoom. Zooms into selected region on map.

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Zoom Interactively: toggles cursor to allow zoom in or out of selected region on map. Click and drag arrow down to zoom in or click and drag arrow up to zoom out.

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Fit in Window: click icon to automatically zoom entire map to fit in map window.

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Map Overview: a shortcut for Overview from the Window menu. Displays a thumbnail of the entire map in a smaller window.

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Zoom Percentage: displays current zoom percentage for map window. Change the zoom percentage by selecting from the pull-down menu or enter a number directly in the field. When a LANsurveyor map zoom level is changed, all the relationships between objects are maintained.  In addition, when you save, print, or export a map, the zoom level selected will apply to the output.

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Display Level 1: redraws map to display only routers and network segments.

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Display Levels 1 and 2: redraws map to display only routers, network segments, and switches.

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Display Levels 1, 2 and 3: redraws map to display all network nodes. Selected button shows current state of the display level.

Edit Map View Filter: controls which categories of end nodes are displayed plus sets threshold for displaying subnets. 

Show/Hide Tool Tips: controls display of tool tips on map (used to display interface speed and switch-to-switch port connectivity.

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Show Sub-level: shows Level 3 nodes connected to selected Level 2 node or Level 2 nodes connected to selected Level 1 node.

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Hide Sub-level: hides Level 3 nodes connected to selected Level 2 node or Level 2 and Level 3 nodes connected to selected Level 1 node.

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Focus in New Window: displays the selected node and all lower-level, connected nodes in a new map window.

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Select Responder clients: a shortcut for Select>All Responder clients from the Edit menu. Selects all Responder client nodes on all open maps. Selected nodes can then be reported on or managed.

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Save As Visio: a shortcut for Save As Visio from the File menu. Saves the LANsurveyor map in Visio format.

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Get Info: a shortcut for Get Info from the Tools menu. Click icon to get more information about one or more selected map objects. All data available through reporting is available through Get Info.