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Toolbar

The Infrastructure Editor toolbar provides quick access to the following functions:

Application operations

• Edit–Lets you edit the application. This option is not available if you do not have full or configure access to the application. For more information about managing user access, see the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) User Guide.
• Save–Saves the current application.
• Print–Prints the current application.

Clipboard operations

• Cut–Lets you cut the selected appliance into the clipboard.
• Copy–Lets you copy the selected appliance to the clipboard.
• Paste–Lets you paste any appliance from the clipboard to the canvas.
• Move to Catalog–Moves the selected appliance to the catalog.

Class

• Add Class - Displays the Add Class wizard that converts an OVF image to an unmanaged Singleton appliance

Annotations

• Add Annotation–Adds an annotation to the application.

Edit mode

• Select Mode–Lets you select one or more components. To select multiple components, depress the control key while left-clicking on the desired components, or click the left mouse button and drag it to create a box around the components you wish to select.
• Connect Mode–Lets you click on pairs of interfaces that you want to connect. The connection will be shown by a contiguous line drawn from one interface to the other. To make a connection, first click on one of the interfaces that you want to connect, then click on the desired destination interface. (default).
• Balloon Mode–Performs the same function as “Connect” mode, except the connection is represented by a balloon with the name of the connection instead of a contiguous line from one connection to the other.
• Pan Mode–Lets you scroll through the canvas.

Operations

• Grid shell–Opens the command line shell.
• Login (ssh)–Logs into the configured default appliance of the application or the selected appliance instance through SSH - opens SSH Console.
• Login (web)–Lets you access the Web Interface of the default appliance of the application or the selected appliance instance. This option is available only when the configured default appliance or selected instance provides Web access through its default interface.
• Login (text)–Lets you access the text boot console of the configured default appliance or the selected appliance instance - opens Text Console.
• Login (graphic)–Lets you access the graphical console of the configured default appliance or the selected appliance instance - opens Graphical Console.
• Set/Unset Default Console–Lets you set or unset the selected appliance as the default appliance.
• Monitor–Lets you monitor the application - opens Application Monitor.
• X - Closes the application

Dynamic Canvas

• Start—Starts the application.
• Stop—Stops the application.
• Restart—Restarts the application.
• Red icon - Indicates the start/stop status of the application

Next to the buttons, the Infrastructure Editor displays the name of the application and the hierarchical path to the assembly being edited.