Other Tips for Arranging Your Maps
Having formed a bus or star cluster, drag it to the edge of the window.
This allows you to see the interconnections of the remaining devices.
Create other clusters as required.
Once you have identified and arranged the clusters, use the following
tips to fine-tune your map:
- Move one or more items
around the window - Drag them to a new position. Use shift-click to
add or remove items from the current selection before dragging.
- Automatically select connected
items - Alt/Option-click an object to select
all the leaves connected to it. (A leaf is an object that has no other
connections.) A second Alt/Option-click selects all the objects (leaves and
non-leaves) connected to the current selection.
Subsequent Alt/option-clicks continue to expand the selection, choosing first
the leaves, then the non-leaves that are attached to the current set of selected
objects.
- Use the Format menu
commands to affect placement of items in the map. In addition
to the Cycle, Bus, and Star commands described above,
use these menu commands to change the orientations or sizes of the items
in the map.
| Align... | modify the alignment of items |
| Rotate... | rotate the selected items around their center |
| Scale... | increase or decrease the separation of the selected
items |
- Use these Format menu commands to affect the appearance
of individual items:
| Icon: | change the item's shape to a rectangle, oval, wire,
cloud, text, or other icon |
| Label: | modify a text label for an item in the map |
| Label position: | change the location of a text label relative to its
item |
- Right-click (or Ctrl-click) to set the Font, text Size and text Style from the context menu for all selected items.
- If networks or ports are not important for a map,
hide them from the Interfaces Window.
- See Editing Labels for Devices
and Networks and Connecting Devices to
Switch Ports for more tips on arranging the map.
- InterMapper periodically scans routers and switches and
displays newly discovered interfaces. If you delete the interface/oval from
the map, InterMapper rediscovers it and displays it again.
You can hide them from the Interfaces Window. For more information, see Hiding and Un-hiding Detail.
- If you use a switch's VLAN capabilities to segment
your network, you may want to show which equipment is connected to each
VLAN segment. Do this by manually dragging device links to the proper
port to indicate the correct connection point. See Connecting Devices to Switch Ports in the Switches.