System window

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System window

In the SNMP State Dictionary there is a group called System, which is responsible for storing information about the system being managed. This group is based on the MIB-II System Group that contains attributes such as description, location, and contact. The System Window represents this information graphically, listing the contents of the attributes in a textual format.

When there are attributes present in the object, the System icon is present as shown in the figure below:

This icon provides an interactor, used to expand a System window that provides a list of existing attributes when you click the icon (see the following figure):

NOTE This interactor is an object interactor. As such, it is active only if the view interactor set to the view delegates events to object interactors. To have a view interactor delegate event processing to an object interactor, use the method setUsingObjectInteractor of the class IlpViewInteractor.

Once the System window is displayed, the System icon background becomes gray and remains so until notification of an attribute change is sent to the telecom object. After the System window has been closed (by clicking the System icon), the System icon looks like this:

You can customize the way the System attributes are presented in the System Window, as well as add new attributes. For more information, see Adding a user-defined business attribute to the system window.