Tips for Arranging Your Maps

After you form a bus or star cluster, drag it to the edge of the window to see the interconnections of the remaining devices. Create other clusters as needed.

After you identify and arrange 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 connected leaves. (A leaf is an object that has no other connections.) A second Alt/Option-click selects all 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	modifies the alignment of items
  	Rotate	rotates the selected items around their center
  	Scale	increases or decreases the separation of the selected items

• Use the following Format menu commands to affect the appearance of individual items:

  	Icon	changes the item's shape to a rectangle, oval, wire, cloud, text, or other icon
  	Label	modifies a text label for an item in the map
  	Label position	changes 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 might 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 .
• If the layout of the network as discovered does not match your conceptual network layout, you can copy a network oval and move device links to the new network oval. For more information, see Copying Network Ovals.