User Manual

AS8100 Sitespan User Guide Version 3.7

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DLP 017

Draft Issue 6.0 Date 4/4/00

VIEW SYSTEM STATUS IN TREE VIEW

STEP PROCEDURE

1. From the View menu select Tree View

2. The tree view displays the system in a hierarchical order. Clicking the icon reveals

the child elements of that icon. A + in the box adjacent to the icon indicates that there

are child elements. When the icon is clicked the child elements are revealed and the +

changes to a -. Clicking the - closes the child elements and display the parent element

with a +. The name field shows the objects associated with the selected parent and

the description shows their status. When in Tree View the presence of Alarm

conditions are indicated by the colours of the various icons. For example, an alarm

emanating from an ST changes the colour of that icon on the tree view to the colour

selected for that condition (in this case Red), and the elements above the ST - Shelf,

Rack and Site also show the same colour. In the figure below the element showing the

alarm condition Poor BER is the ST3, on CAS Shelf 2, in Rack2, in the Bedfont

Lakes Site - but all the elements listed are showing the same alarm condition colour.