Learning How to Create Behavior Models - How to Reset Your Environment - How to Reset Your Environment -
Previous: How to Reset Your Environment     Next: Summary of What You Learned

How to Reset Your Environment

As you have worked through this book, you have created quite a few polls, masks, and alarms. It is now time to return your NerveCenter environment to its original condition.

This scenario includes the following two activities:

1. Deleting NerveCenter Objects
2. Deleting Property Groups

Deleting NerveCenter Objects

Normally you should not need to delete NerveCenter objects. Most of the time you will disable an object until you need it again.

To work through the activities and exercises found in this tutorial, you created fictitious alarms, polls, masks, and Action Router rules. Now that you have mastered the skills and concepts needed to create NerveCenter behavior models, these objects are unnecessary.

This next activity will step you through the process of deleting alarms, polls, and masks.

 
  To delete NerveCenter objects:

1. Close any open definition windows.
2. From the Admin menu, select Alarm Definition List.

   

   NerveCenter displays the Alarm Definition List window.

3. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each alarm you created while working though this tutorial.

   Each alarm should be highlighted as you select it.

   ---

   Tip    If you have used the names suggested in this tutorial, all of the alarms should begin with the number one. They should appear at the top of the list.

   ---

4. Right-click on one of the highlighted alarms. From the pop-up menu, select Delete.

   A Confirm Deletion window appears.

   Confirm Deletion Window

   

5. In the Confirm Deletion window, select Yes.

   If you want to delete all the selected alarms at once, select All.

   The selected alarms disappear from the Alarm Definition List window.

6. From the Admin menu, select Poll List.

   

   NerveCenter displays the Poll List window.

7. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each poll you created while working though this tutorial.

   Each poll should be highlighted as you select it.

8. Right-click on one of the highlighted polls. From the pop-up menu, select Delete.

   A Confirm Deletion window appears.

9. In the Confirm Deletion window, select Yes.

   If you want to delete all the selected polls at once, select All.

   The selected polls disappear from the Poll List window.

10. From the Admin menu, select Mask List.

    

    NerveCenter displays the Mask List window.

11. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each mask you created while working though this tutorial.

    Each mask should be highlighted as you select it.

12. Right-click on one of the highlighted masks. From the pop-up menu, select Delete.

    A Confirm Deletion window appears.

13. In the Confirm Deletion window, select Yes.

    If you want to delete all the selected masks at once, select All.

    The selected masks disappear from the Mask List window.

14. From the Admin menu, select Action Router Rule List.

    

    NerveCenter displays the Action Router Rule List window.

15. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each Action Router rule you created while working through this tutorial.

    Each rule should be highlighted as you select it.

16. Right-click on one of the highlighted rules. From the pop-up menu, select Delete.

    A Confirm Deletion window appears.

17. In the Confirm Deletion window, select Yes.

    If you want to delete all the selected rules at once, select All.

    The selected rules disappear from the Action Router Rule List window.

You have now successfully deleted all of the alarms, polls, masks and Action Router rules. The next activity will explain how to delete a property group.

Deleting Property Groups

In the last activity you deleted all of the alarms, polls, masks, and Action Router rules you created while working through this tutorial.

You are now able to delete the property groups that you created.

---

Note    You cannot delete a property group until you have deleted all other objects that use that property group.

---

 
  To delete a property group:

1. From the Admin menu, select Node List.

   

   NerveCenter displays the Node List window.

2. To have the nodes listed by Property Group, select the Group column header.
3. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each node that has a property group you created while working through this tutorial, such as CriticalDevices and Troublemakers.

   Each node should be highlighted as you select it.

4. Right-click on one of the highlighted nodes. From the pop-up menu, select Property Group.

   The Property Group Window Appears

   .

   

5. In the Property Group window, select an appropriate property group.
6. Select Save.
7. From the Admin menu, select Property Group List.

   

   NerveCenter displays the Property Group List window.

   Property Group List Window

   

   Click the thumbnail above to view full-sized image.

8. Highlight one of the property groups you created for this tutorial.

   Unlike alarms, polls, and masks, you cannot select multiple property groups for deletion. You must delete each property group one at a time.

9. In the Property Group area, select Delete.

   The selected property group disappears from the Property Group list.

10. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to delete any other property groups you created.
11. In the Property Group List window, select Save.

    None of the property groups will be removed from the NerveCenter database until you select Save.

You have just completed deleting all the property groups you created for this tutorial.