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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1999
Deepak Nulu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjeev Ukhalkar, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for maintaining networking hardware. One embodiment comprises a graphical user interface having a maintenance menu and a resource tree in an architectural arrangement. The resource tree also has a networking resource. The graphical user interface may further comprise a configuration window which may further comprise a parameter field. The graphical user interface may also further comprise a context sensitive menu associated with the networking resource and/or a global banner window which may span the top of the graphical user interface. In various embodiments the resource tree may be horizontal, vertical and/or on the left hand side of the graphical user interface. Also, a lower level networking resource may be indented beneath a higher level networking resource and the higher level and lower level networking resources may be traced to one another. The networking resource may further comprise an icon and a text field.