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General Procedures for Using SDX Admin

This section describes the general procedures for using SDX Admin.

In the navigation pane:

In the content pane:

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.




Table 32: SDX Admin Main Pop-Up Menus  
Menu Item
Choose to

New

Create a new object of the type specified.

Edit

Open Policy Editor to edit the selected object.

Available only for some policy objects. See SRC-PE Services and Policies Guide, Chapter 7, Using Policy Editor for more information.

Congestion Points

Create congestion points and congestion point profiles.

Convert Subscriptions

Convert subscriptions from the syntax used in SDX versions earlier that 5.0 to the syntax in SDX 5.0 or greater. or SRC 1.0.0 or greater

Discover Network

Search the router and virtual router in a subnet.

Available only for Network object.

Reload Subtree

Refresh the navigation pane and reload the subtree from the directory.

Cut

Move the selected object (including subtree) to the clipboard.

Copy

Create a copy of the selected object (excluding subtree) in the clipboard.

Copy Tree

Create a copy of the selected object (including subtree) in the clipboard.

Paste

Insert the content of the clipboard below the selected object.

Delete

Delete the selected object.

Modifying an Entry

The parameters of a highlighted object are displayed in the content pane.

To modify the parameters:

Type in the new value

or

Select a new value from the menu for the parameter.

NOTE: Most parameters defined in SDX Admin objects are inherited from higher levels. That is, if you modify a parameter in a parent object, the child object inherits the value. However, SDX Admin does not immediately display the values inherited from the upper level. The inheritance is handled by the SAE at runtime.


Undo and Redo

SDX Admin allows you to undo or redo up to 10 operations. You can undo the following operations:

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.

To search for information:

  1. 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.

  1. Enter the search information in the Find text box.
  2. To limit the search, select one of the search criteria (Ignore Case, or Regular Expression); otherwise, click Find.

The system displays the results of the search.


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