Color indicates status. The extensive functions and tools of NetView for AIX help you maintain control of your network. With host NetView's scope and span security checking, you can restrict operator capabilities by resource. Host NetView security can also limit command authority to specific physical or logical units. Real objects are actual resources, such as an application or a controller.
Aggregate objects represent multiple real resources.
If, while monitoring a high-level submap containing aggregate objects, one of these objects becomes degraded, rather than navigating down through multiple submaps to find the cause, you can select Fast Path to to Failing Resource for the aggregate to see a submap containing the failing resource. If multiple resources are contributing to the aggregate's degraded status, a dialog window listing each submap that contains failing resources is displayed. The submaps containing the most failing critical resources are listed first. Each entry displays the number of resources in the submap that are critical, non-critical, unknown, and satisfactory. Any command that can be issued by host NetView can be issued from the workstation.