In addition to Location objects, the user is able to add custom Blocks for Service Loop, Continuation, Note, and potentially other categories of icons. For this,  there is a dedicated drop-down list of Block names for each Category of Blocks.

 

Also, there is a dedicated menu button for opening a Miscellaneous Block Gallery to manage ServiceLoop, Continuation and Note Categories of Blocks. This Gallery allows the user to add new Blocks and select the current Block for each Category.

In IRM, objects that can be drawn in the Design World (Equipment, Cable, Pathway, Maintenance Hole, Location, and Space, collectively known as "drawn Managed Objects") can be displayed with some special effects. These effects are applied if the specified Analytic or other conditions are met - see Analytics Manager for more details about that feature.

 

Certain details of exactly how to draw Managed Objects are specified in this section of the Global Settings dialog. Specifically, each of the highlight colors displayed in the screenshot correspond to a separate highlight state, which is a fixed list of three states, with the first option representing the default color in which the objects will be displayed if no highlight color / effect is applied.

The Global Settings section from the screenshot above displays the format of the default Labels for each of the Managed Object Super Categories that support Labels - specifically, Equipment, Cable, Pathway, Maintenance Hole, Space and Location objects. The values specified for these label fields provide the defaults that are used when creating a Label object for that Super Category. They are Composite Strings which can consist of literal characters and special placeholders (strings in { } ) that get substituted with the relevant field data when the Label is drawn.

For example, for the second item in the above table, the Equipment Composite Label is set to {Name}/{Location Alternate Name}.  When the Label is drawn, this Composite Label will be translated to something like "Router ABC/B1F2R3", where "Router ABC" is the name of the Equipment object and "B1F2R3" is the short name of the Location (Building 1, Floor 2, Room 3). See the section

Labeling Equipment in the Design World

for more detail on the labeling mechanism.

The two Global Settings section displayed above display colors specified for visualization of different states of Ports in Elevation dialogs. The Port State is divided into two groups - Admin and Operational Port States, with the caveat that the use of "admin" here is not exactly the same use as in admin vs. term Ports – here we are distinguishing between managing a Port by plugging / unplugging cables ("admin") vs. by reconfiguring a managed switch or similar device via software ("operational" or "op" for short). Each group lists the selected colors for each of the enumerated values.

 

For additional details about what each state represents, see the following topic - Port Visualization.

This section of Global settings displays the full URL of different external links that are available for access from the Web Client and from the Global Console. Changing these links is useful in cases where IRM is run on on customer-controlled equipment and those machines do not have access to the internet, or if the customer simply wants to supply a different or additional set of documentation links for their users.