Deployment Guide

FIGURE 4 Switch Explorer
1. Menu bar
2. Switch View buttons
3. Tabs and Fabric Tree
4. Zoom in and Zoom out buttons
5. Switch View
6. Switch Events and Switch Information
7. Indicator bar
8. Professional Management Tool offering
9. Last polling refresh time - The host time in which Web Tools is launched
Persisting GUI preferences
Web Tools persists your GUI preferences across sessions for Switch Explorer, and the Port Admin,
Switch Admin, Name Server, and Zone Admin dialog boxes on all browser platforms. Persistence is
performed on a per-host basis.
If you launch Web Tools from Brocade Network Advisor (BNA), all of the Web Tools GUI persistence
data for each user name is stored in the BNA database.
The Port Admin GUI preferences that persist are:
• Basic or Advance mode
• Last selected tab by the user
• Table column sorting
• Table column positions
The Switch Admin GUI preferences that persist are:
• Basic or Advance mode
• Last selected tab
Persisting GUI preferences
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