H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center User Manual

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You can also select two devices and right-click to select Analyze Route from the shortcut menu.

Set Default Topology View: Enables you to define which topology loads when an operator selects
the Network Topology link located on the navigation tree on the left of IMC Web interface. By
default, the Custom View is loaded.

Ping Topology: Allows you to view devices by reachability state on the topology. When this option
is selected, a device icon on the topology is either green or red. Green icons represent devices that

can be pinged from IMC. Red icons represent devices that cannot be pinged from IMC and are

unreachable.

Device Label: Allows you to decide which label is used to denote the various devices displayed on
a topology map. Options include Show IP, Show Label, Show SysName, Show Vendor, Show
Device Type, and No Label.

Link Label: Allows you to decide which label is used to denote the various links displayed on a
topology map. Options include Show Name, Show Type, Show Node (Device Name), Show

Interface, Show Interface Alias, and No Label.
For Show Interface, which supports showing abbreviated interface names, you can customize the
abbreviation rules through the configuration file as follows:

a.

Log in to the server that has IMC installed.

b.

Open the file linKInterface.xml in the path IMC installation path\client\conf\topo.
The file displays:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<linkAlias name="Link name abbreviation definition">

<linkName>

<region>

<fullname>GigabitEthernet</fullname>

<abbreviation>GE</abbreviation>

</region>

<region>

<fullname>Ethernet</fullname>

<abbreviation>E</abbreviation>

</region>

</linkName>

</linkAlias>

c.

Edit the file linKInterface.xml as required,
The file predefines the abbreviations for GigabitEthernet and Ethernet. You can use the
following lines to modify the file content:

<region>

<fullname>FastEthernet</fullname>

<abbreviation>FE</abbreviation>

</region>

The lines contain the following items:

{

Fullname—Full name of the interface type.

{

Abbreviation—Abbreviation of the interface type name.
For example, the preceding lines indicate that the abbreviation for FastEthernet is FE.

d.

Save and close the file linKInterface.xml.

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