Patch Cable Connections
- Cornelia Stärkel (Deactivated)
- Christin Stefani
- Thomas Wais
- Abir Haque
This page describes how to connect patch cables between components in Pathfinder. There are multiple ways to create network cabling in Pathfinder but they all fall under either the (1:n) or (n:n) connection rule. The patch cabling can be done from the cable management section or from the cabinet itself.
Drag&Drop
The easiest way to create a patch connection is to drag and drop the source port on top of the destination port. You can select and hold the source port (1) from a component and then drag and drop it on the destination port (2) of a component to begin the network connection.
Once you have selected the two ports, you can then select the cable definition (3).
Since both the ports are Ethernet ports, the cable definition and naming rules are automatically selected for twisted pair patch cables.
Here you can also name your cable, check for the uniqueness of your cable name and print a barcode to label your physical network cable.
The connection overview is available below (4). Once all the selections are complete, click on finish to complete your single network cable connection.
Show Connections
To see active network connections and cables, right click outside the cabinet to bring up the context menu, go to View (1) and select “Show all patch connections“ (2).
To learn more about the other methods for creating network connections, go to: Cable Management.
Remove Cable Connection
To remove a cable connection, right click on the port you want to disconnect and select Remove patch.
In the next window, you can select the cables you want to remove. Select OK to continue and OK again to finish removing the cable connection.