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Defining the Brokers and Clients to Display in the Topology View
By default, the system displays the current Broker and all its connected clients in the topology view.
You can select to display remote Brokers; disconnected, remote Brokers; and disconnected clients using the settings on the Display Options tab. For more information, see Defining How to Display Data in the Broker Topology View.
You can define one or more node groupings to narrow down the number of nodes that the system displays in the topology view. A node grouping defines a group of Brokers or a group of clients. After identifying a node grouping, you can select whether you want to:
*View or hide the node grouping.
*Show each Broker or client using individual nodes for each, or combine all Brokers or clients in the node grouping and display them as a single node.
*To define the Brokers and clients to display in the topology view
1. Display the topology view as described in Displaying the Broker Topology View.
2. Click the Display Settings link.
3. Click the Node Grouping tab.
4. Click New Group to define a new node grouping.
5. On the Add Topology Display Group page, set the following fields:
Field
Description
Match Type and Match Name
Use the Match Type and Match Name fields to identify a group of Brokers or a group of clients. The match is case sensitive.
*Match Type. Select the attribute of a Broker or client that you want to use to form the group. For example, use Broker  Host Name to create a group of Brokers that have the same or similar host names.
To define a group of Brokers, use one of the following:
*Broker Name
*Broker Host Name
*Broker Territory Name
To define a group of clients, use one of the following:
*Client ID
*Client Application Name
*Client Group Name
*Match Name.Specify text to use to find matching items for the group. For example, if you want a group of Brokers that all have host names that begin with "east", specify Broker Host Name in the Match Type field and east* in the Match Name field.
When specifying the Match Name, you can use Broker regular expressions such as the wild card character *. For more information, see the "Using Event Filters" chapter of the webMethods Broker Client Java API Programmer’s Guide.
Visible
Select the Visible check box to have the system include the group of Brokers or group of clients in the topology view.
Clear the Visible check box if you do not want the system to display the Brokers or clients in the topology view.
Combined
Select the Combined check box to have the system combine all the matching Brokers or matching clients into a single node for the topology view. When the system displays the single node, it labels the node with the value you specify for Match Name.
Clear the Combined check box if you want the system to display each matching Broker or matching client using individual nodes.
6. Click OK to close the Add Topology Display Group page and return to the Node Grouping tab on the Broker Display Options page.
7. If you want to create another grouping, repeat steps step 4 through step 6.
8. After creating the node groupings, use the buttons in the Move Up and Move Down columns, which are on the Broker Display Options page, to put the groupings in the order you want. For more information, see About Ordering the Node Groupings.
9. Click OK on the Broker Display Options page.
Tip:
You can export the list of node groupings to a .csv file by clicking Export Table.