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Background images

Monitor one allows you to add background images to your network maps. Background images help you identify the location of malfunctioning equipment and the consequences of a failure more quickly.

If you are the network manager of a WAN you could add a country-map to your network map, if you are managing a LAN you could add the floor plan or a campus plan.

Building network maps as factually as possible, will positively affect the error tracking process and the speed of solving network problems.

Adding a background image to a network map

1. Switch to Designer mode.
2. Move to the map to add a background image to.
3. Right-click anywhere on the map and select Add background image from the popup menu.
4. A "Browse for bitmap" dialog window opens
5. Select the bitmap file to add as a background and click Open.
6. If the selected bitmap meets with some requirements the bitmap will appear as background image, otherwise an Informational or an Error message will popup.

Background image requirements:

1. It must be a *.bmp file.
2. The size of the bitmap must be equal to (or greater than) the size of the network map to cover.

Removing a background image from a network map

1. Switch to Designer mode.
2. Move to the map with the background image to remove.
3. Right-click on a blank portion of the map and select Remove background image.

Assigned background images are saved (as bitmap files) with random names in the project directory.