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"The only way we could have gotten it out faster was to take this particular issue and raise it above all of the other issues and get it out first". That is exactly what I was expecting.

It's interesting how most of the people in the forums agree that the node status change was a terrible idea (me included) and yet Denny loves to remind us how this was requested by the majority of users. I'll believe it when I see and it's still no excues not to make it configurable and its taking WAY TOO LONG for…

Let's not get cute we need this as fast as possible, and please when you implement the patch please make the default configuration be the old way (yellow).

Welp there goes my plans to upgrade. I hope you're putting this upcoming patch on an accelerated schedule.

Apparently this is a "long standing request" and was done by design. They are going to be making this configurable in a new patch. Here is the thread.

Go to system manager right click the node and choose node details then delete the current Name (highlight and hit backspace) and then hit enter it will obtain the new hostname of the device then click Apply Chanages.

I too would have to agree with vhcato. I couldn't imagine trying to manage all of my devices using the web interface, it is god awfully slow.

It's a little more work but here is what we did. We imported a line from visio and named it "blank dot". When we want to connect two devices we connect the links to the "blank dot" object instead of connecting them directly to each other. If you get really good you can resize the "blank dot" object so small that you can't…