Moving Newly Discovered Devices to Their Proper Container

During a normal day, NNM will discover a few new devices such as servers, Ethernet switches, routers, and subnets. Assuming the Internet submap is customized, it will display a new object holding area at the bottom of the window where new routers and subnets will be placed. In large NNM implementations many collection stations export new devices to the management station where the Internet submap’s new object holding area receives all new routers and subnets recently discovered.

Map maintenance involves moving these new devices to their proper container icon. Assuming that the map builder is aware of network changes, the presence of new icons is expected and the proper location is obvious. ...

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