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Working with Interfaces and Routers

You use a number of different pages to perform the tasks for interfaces and routers:

Active Interfaces Page

The Active Interfaces page shows interfaces, routers, custom virtual interfaces (CVIs), and interface aggregations. The page shows only the routers and interfaces that have contributed to the collected data at some time. You can create and delete CVIs, merge interfaces, and edit properties. You also can delete routers and interfaces without deleting them from the system entirely--for example, to address capacity issues.

Select Interfaces: Physical & Virtual from the Administration page, then use the Active Interfaces page to perform the following main tasks:

Available Interfaces Page

The Available Interfaces page shows information about all of the interfaces and routers, including the ones that have not contributed to the collected data at any time. You can enable or disable interfaces, delete routers and their interfaces from the system, and perform some polling troubleshooting.

Select System: Enable Interfaces from the Administration page, then use the Available Interfaces page to perform the following tasks:

Interface Templates Page

You can create a custom interface template to change the way interface names and descriptions appear in a number of reports.

Select System: Templates from the Administration page, then use the Interface Templates page to perform the following tasks:

Application Settings Page

You can use a setting on the Application Settings page to control whether device names are included in interface names.

Select Application Settings, then use the Application Settings page to perform the following task: