Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

54 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide

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Fabric Manager Customization

For example, if you name all of the switches for your Accounting team “acctx”, where x is a number,

you can view only the accounting switches by typing acct in the Name text field, and clicking Filter.

Only the switches that have acct in their name are then displayed in the table.

Filtering elements in a table

1. In the filter text fields, type text (letters, numbers, or symbols such as a period) that are

included in the elements that you want to view.

NOTE

If you are filtering using numeric values, you must use the asterisk character (*) to produce

complete results.

For example, to view all the elements that include “switch” in their name, type switch in the text

field of the Name filter.

2. From the filter menus, select a value that you want included in the elements that you want to

view.

3. Click the Filter tab.

Each element that matches all of the criteria you specified in the filters is displayed in the

table.

Table tool tip customization

Fabric Manager tables with multiple columns of information can be difficult to view due to narrow

columns or having to use the side-to-side scroll bars. Information within an individual cell of a

column or information within an entire row in a table can be viewed much easier using tool tips. You

can customize whether the tool tips display the entire text of a cell or all of the information for a

single row when you mouse over the cell. The default is to display the entire row.

Customizing table tool tips

1. Click Edit > Preferences in the menu bar.

The Preferences dialog box displays.

2. Expand User Specific and select General (see Figure 35 on page 53).

3. Check the Show all column values for the current row check box to display tool tips for the

entire row in a table. Clear this box to display tool tips for only a single cell in the table.

4. Click OK.

Resizing panels

You can adjust the size of the Fabric Manager panels (Scope panel, View panel, Tasks panel, and

Information panel) by dragging the borders between the panels.

You can hide or show panels by clicking the arrow in the panel header. For example, if you want to

make the Information panel as large as possible so you can view more of the table, you can click

the arrow in the View panel header to hide that panel, as shown in Figure 37. To display the View

panel again, click the arrow in the View panel header.