General Procedures for Using SDX Admin
This section describes the general procedures for using SDX Admin.
- To select an object—Move the cursor over the object, and click.
- To expand an object—Click on the triangle to the left of the object. When the object is expanded, the triangle points down.
- To collapse an object—Click on the triangle to the left of the object. When the object is collapsed, the triangle points to the right (toward the object).
- To revert to (and display) the last saved information for the selected object—Click Revert.
- To save the currently displayed information for the selected object—Click Save.
Using Pop-Up Menus
If you select a folder or an individual object in the navigation pane and then right-click, a pop-up menu appears. Available commands relative to the selected object appear. If the command appears dimmed, it is not available. Table 32 lists the menu selections that are available from one or more of the various pop-up menus.
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Modifying an Entry
The parameters of a highlighted object are displayed in the content pane.
Select a new value from the menu for the parameter.
Undo and Redo
SDX Admin allows you to undo or redo up to 10 operations. You can undo the following operations:
- New—Creation of a new directory entry, including creation of subentries and modifications of access controls.
- Paste—Creation of new directory entries by copying existing folders and objects.
- Delete—Deletion of a directory entry, including modification of dependent entries.
- Delete subtree—Recursive deletion of a directory entry, including modification of dependent entries.
- Cut—Recursive deletion of a directory entry, including modification of dependent entries. Undo reverts the directory only to the previous directory state. After you cut an entry, the clipboard contains a copy of what you selected from the directory; any previous content of the clipboard is removed. Undo restores the directory entry (similar to pasting the entry back at the original position) but does not restore the clipboard.
- Modify—Modification of a single directory entry, including modification of dependent entries. Modify means that the content of the object has been changed and saved to the directory. Undo will revert to the previous state of the object.
- Edit—Modification of a single entry without saving to the directory. Undoing an Edit entry reverts the entry back to the last saved entry from the directory. The difference from Revert is that the edit operation can be redone. When you save the changes to the directory, Edit object becomes a Modify object operation.
Save and Revert
Save changes by selecting Save in the File menu or by clicking Save at the bottom of the form in the content pane. If you click the Revert button, all attributes are loaded from the directory again and displayed.
If you do not save changes that you make on the form, the application prompts you to save the changes.
Deleting an Entry
To delete an entry, first highlight the object that you want to delete. Then you can delete the object by performing one of the following actions:
The system displays the Delete menu. Click Yes to delete the entry.
NOTE: Objects that have child entries below them cannot be deleted. You must first delete the child entries.
Virtual Deletion
Some objects in SDX Admin have a Deleted field that you can set to true or false. If you set this field to true, then the object is deleted from the perspective of any SRC component that uses the directory eventing system. Such components include the enterprise server, the SAE, and the SNMP agent. The object is still present in SDX Admin and in the directory. You can "undelete" such an object by setting the field to false.
Searching Text
SDX Admin provides you with a text-searching function.
- Select a multiline text field in a content pane (for example, the Description field in the Enterprise content pane), and then click Search at the bottom of the pane.
The SDX Admin dialog box appears.
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