MAPPING > ICONS

Device Icons

The Device Icon Properties can be modified using the options shown below:

• Toggle between or to control whether a flow device that is a member of the group is displayed in the map.
• Flow Version: An icon representing the version of NetFlow or Sflow coming from the device is displayed. Examples below:
• means the device is sending version 5. The mouse over ALT tag displays more details such as "NetFlow version 5"
• means the Device is sending version 9. The mouse over ALT tag displays more details such as "NetFlow version 9"
• The unknown icon means that the flow Device was manually entered under Manage Devices and that no flow at this time has been received from the Device. The mouse over ALT tag displays "Unknown Version".
• Image: The default icon representing the flow device can be overwritten with this option.
• Label: Options include Hostname, IP Address or Hostname and IP. This option is used to over ride the default behavior set under Defaults. What it does: displays the Hostname, IP Address or both in the ALT tag when a mouse over the icon occurs in the flash map.
• Click Here to learn how to add custom Device icons.
  
• Click Here to learn how to add flow devices to a map.
• Long. & Lat. GPS coordinates can be saved for each flow Device. This will place the Device icon in the Google map. Clicking the Device icon in the google map will pop up the 3 busiest interfaces and provide the option to launch a 3rd party application for the Device.

Group Icons

The Group Icon Properties can be modified using the options shown below:

• Group Icon: This is the icon which represents a Group in all maps.
• Toggle between or to control whether an icon representing a Group is displayed in the map. Clicking on the Group icon in a flash map or a google map will pop up the flash map for the Group.
• Image: Select the default size of the group icon to be placed on the flash map.
• Long. & Lat. GPS coordinates can be saved for each group. This will place the group icon in the Google map. Clicking the group icon in the google map will pop up the flash map for this group.

Object Icons

This screen is used to add icons to a map that represent devices on the network.

• Toggle between or to control whether an icon representing an Object is displayed in the map. Clicking on the Object icon in a flash map or a google map can launch a pop up web browser for a specified URL (see "Link" below).
• Image: Select the image and size of the Object icon to be placed on the flash map. Click Here to learn how to add custom Objects to the image drop down box.
• Label: Specify the label that is to appear underneath the Object in a flash map.
• Link: Specify a URL to be launched should the Object icon be clicked in a flash or google map. The URL also appears in the mouse over ALT tag.
• Long. & Lat. GPS coordinates can be saved for each Object icon. This will place the Object icon in the Google map. Clicking the Object icon in the google map will pop up a browser for the desired URL.

Text Icons

This screen is used to place shapes with text on the map.

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