## The interface

A | System Setup pane and icons | B | Sort indicator | C | Group By Box area | D | Filter indicator
E | Column Selector | F | Pin/Unpin icon | G | Display window1 | H | EditFilter button
I | Current filter applied | J | Hover text | K | Show historical devices option
1 This area displays the contents of the selected System Setup icon

A | System Setup panes and icons | B | Sort indicator | C | Group By box | D | Filter indicator
E | Column Selector | F | Pin/Unpin Icon | G | Display window1 | H | Edit Filter button
I | Current filter applied | J | Mouse hover text
1 This area displays the contents of the selected system setup icon

#### Window title

The window title displays the name of the software program and the current user.

#### System Setup pane

The icons in the System Setup pane represent categories of items you can add, remove, set up, and view. Click an icon to go to the associated display window.

#### Display window

The Display window shows the contents of the item currently selected in the System Setup pane.

#### Refresh

To manually refresh and reload its contents, select View > Refresh (or press F5).

#### Options

Select Tools > Options to open the Options dialog. Use this dialog to change display settings for the System Log Events display window.

##### Highlighting

Highlighting controls how Error events are displayed in the System Log Events display window. Select or clear the Enable Highlighting check box to turn highlighting on or off. Click Set Highlight Color to change the highlight color for Critical or Error events in the System Log Events display window.

##### Events

The Events section of the dialog lets you control how many records appear in the System Log Events display window and how date and time are displayed.

#### Customizing the interface

You can customize what is displayed in the interface and the tables within the display windows:

Select which columns appear in tables.

Filter, sort and group data in tables.

For instructions on using these features, see "Customizing and Navigating Interface Displays" on page 1.

#### Display window shortcut menus

To access shortcut menus in the Display window, first click the icon of the System Setup item you are interested in. Then right-click the display window area or on a network component to display the shortcut menu. The menu items available vary depending on the network component selected.

New displays the options available for adding new network items.

Duplicate creates one or more copies of a selected item.

Note

For the Duplicate command, each one of the duplicates needs to be opened individually in order to configure them. Duplicate and Configure allows you to create and configure multiple devices at the same time.

Duplicate and Configure lets you perform batch cloning of devices. When multiple devices are selected, this right-click shortcut becomes Configure Selected Devices which lets you perform setup functions such as batch renaming of devices.

Delete removes the selected items.

Connect and Disconnect lets you manually connect to or disconnect from the selected site.

Note

You cannot connect or disconnect an individual serial device in a site; you can only connect or disconnect the site for that serial device.

Connect Ethernet and Disconnect Ethernet let you manually connect to or disconnect from the selected Ethernet device.

Security accesses the Meter Security Settings dialog. This is used by the software to gain access to security-enabled devices (for example, or ); it is only available from the shortcut menu for the Devices display pane.

Configure <Network Component> opens the <Network Component> Configuration dialog (where <network component> is the component selected). Use this dialog to make changes to the properties for the selected network component.