Viewing devices with custom views, Accessing custom views – H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center User Manual

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12.

Click the

vManager Topology icon and select the Exit option in the popup menu to cancel

viewing the physical servers.

Viewing devices with custom views

Custom views offer you the ability to create their own views based on groups of devices they define. Like

all IMC views, custom views offer you a real time snapshot of the status of devices in the network

infrastructure through color-coded icons that match the highest severity or alarm level for devices in the

view.
Like device view and IP view, custom views enable you to grant and revoke management rights for

devices in custom views. First, you create custom views and add devices to them. Then, you grants access

to the custom groups in the individual operator accounts.
When considering how to organize devices into custom groups and subviews, consider first the rights
and privileges you want to grant to or restrict you from. Also, consider how the logical grouping of

devices can support an effect rights management policy. For more information about the relationship of

custom views and operator rights, see "

Operator management: managing secure access to IMC

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You can organize one or more views according to the IMC security needs and viewing requirements of
their organization. Custom views can be organized by geography, or location, buildings, organizational

groupings, just to name a few. Devices can belong to more than one custom view.
As all IMC views do, custom views offer drilldown to the device details for an individual device. From the

Device Details page, you can access management features that offer you quick and easy access to
network resources as well as the ability to manage them.

Accessing custom views

To access custom views

1.

Navigate to Resource > Custom View.

a.

Click the Resource tab from the tabular navigation system on the top.

b.

Click View Management on the navigation tree on the left.

c.

Click Custom View on the navigation tree on the left. The list of custom views is displayed in the
Custom View List. If a custom view contains subviews, click the Expand icon next to the view

name to display the subviews.

2.

Click the view name you want to access. The Device List/Topology for the custom view you choose
appears.

Device List

Status: Contains the latest status of the device. Device icons that are gray are not managed.

Device Label: Contains the name of a device in the view. The contents of this field serve as an active
link for drilling down into the Device Details page, which offers you convenient access to device
management features.

Subview: Displays the subview to which the device belongs in the custom topology. If the device
does not belong to any subview, this field displays a hyphen (-). For more information about

subviews, see "

Device management through the right mouse click

."

Device Category: Contains the IMC device category for the associated device.

Model: Contains device model information. If the device is managed for reachability using ICMP
only no device model information is available and the field contains "ICMP."

IP Address: Contains the IP address of the device.

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