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Visualize Data

The Topology Viewer provides a pictorial view of data in your system and their relationships. This view can simplify your ability to identify relationships as you manage your data. You can also drill down to isolate data within your system. The following color-codes help you assess the health state of each node:

• Gray—Normal or unknown
• Yellow—Warning
• Red—Danger

The Topology Viewer can help you perform the following tasks:

• Troubleshooting
• Taking inventory of your system

You can launch the Topology Viewer for one or more rows of data in the Investigator and view the data pictorially. Each data node can be a member in a complex relationship with many data nodes. To see this relationship pictorially, right-click an object in the pictorial view and select an action from the context menu. When you display the child objects of an object, a group object appears in the Topology Viewer. The name of this group object is a combination of the relation name and the count of the child objects. Select this group object to launch the search panel.

The search panel helps you filter the pictorial view of data based on customizable search criteria. By default, the Query Name field in Search Panel displays the name of the selected relation; you can edit it to provide a custom name. The name of the group object changes to the custom name after you apply the search criteria.

Follow these steps:

1. Launch the Investigator.
2. Select a discipline from the drop-down list.
3. Navigate in the tree to the data that you want to view.
4. Select one or more rows of data or highlight a row of data.

   The Actions pane opens.

5. Select Add to Topology Viewer under Navigation in the Actions pane.

   The Topology Viewer displays a pictorial view of your data. The default view is hierarchical. The label of the object displays the system name to which the selected object belongs.

6. (Optional) Manipulate the view or print the visualization using the toolbar at the top of the Topology Viewer pane.

Note: For conceptual and procedural information and real-world examples, see the applicable discipline-based User Guide.