AdvisorWhen i use the focus feature, it’s to focus on a group because i need to do something with multiple things in the group and i don’t want to have to scroll through the tree to find the group that’s 5 levels down. Just makes it easier visually. Also once i do change something on a device in that group, it changes the focus to the one device. Hitting the back button in my browser brings me right back to the group i was looking at before it navigated away without me wanting it to.
The other time i use the focus feature is to focus on a single device because i’m showing someone from the NOC how to navigate and understand the data and i don’t want them distracted by the other stuff they’d see in my resource tree that they’d never see in theirs.
One time focusing on a datasource would be handy is after i’ve created the datasource, but before no instances are discovered. In UIv3, I have to navigate to an instance under an adjacent datasource and pound refresh on that page so that the resource tree is redrawn every time. This means i can see the instances when they show up instead having to refresh and drill down each time i refresh just to see that the instances aren’t there yet.