Collection Contents Dialog

The Collection Contents dialog box enables you to specify the types of objects to be contained by the collection you are building or editing. The Collection Contents dialog box contains the following fields:

Available types table
Lists all of the types of objects which can be contained in a collection.

The data in this table can be filtered to include only those types you want to view.

> button
This button enables you to add an object type from the Available types table to the Selected types / Names table by selecting the object type in the Available types table and then clicking the > button. It then appears in the Selected types / Names table.

< button
This button enables you to remove an object type from the Selected types / Names table by selecting the object type in the Selected types / Names table and then clicking the < button.

Selected types / Names table

Contains the object type(s), added from the Available types table, by which all the objects in your collection should be defined.

The data in this table can be filtered.

Customize button
When a row of data is selected in the Selected types / Names table, this button opens the Customize Types dialog box for the selected type which enables name and status selection.

Drag and drop individual resources here work space
Enables you to select a RODM object from the View area of the Topology Console Main Window of NMC and drag and drop it into this work space. When you do this, the type of the selected object is added to the Selected types / Names table.

Note: Only RODM objects can be dragged and dropped into this work space.

To determine if an object is a RODM object, from the Topology Console Main Window, do the following:

  1. Select the object and right click on it to bring up the context menu.
  2. Select Resource Properties... to open the Resource Properties notebook for the object.
  3. Click on the Information tab to see the Information page.

    If the RODM Id field on the Information page of the notebook contains an Id, then:

    • the object is a RODM object.
    • the object can be dragged and dropped into the work space of the Collection Contents dialog box.
    • the object type will be added to the Selected types / Names table when the object is dropped into the Drag and Drop NMC Resources Here work space.

Select one of the following buttons

Back
Returns to the Collection Defaults dialog box in which to specify the types of objects the view or aggregate should contain.
Next
Opens the Collection Ready to Send dialog box.
Cancel
Cancels the request to specify the object types and closes the dialog box.
Help
Opens this help panel for this dialog box.