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Save time and improve accuracy with Configuration Management Because the Point System
SNMP agent can potentially manage dozens of slide-in devices, it offers a means
of applying a single configuration change to an arbitrary number of these
devices. These proprietary
extensions are entirely contained within the Point System SNMP agent, meaning
that (if for some reason you are unable to or do not wish to use Focal Point,)
all functions can be accessed from any standard SNMP v1 Network Management
System. See the discussion of this ConfigMng/advanced Topic.
The procedure for applying a configuration change to an individual
device is described elsewhere in this document. To
use the Focal Point application to apply a change to a user-defined
group of devices, follow these steps:
- Create group(s) of
devices. This is done by opening the "Details" screens of the various
slide-in devices (as described above) and typing one or more user-defined
Device Group String keywords into the
"Groups" text box in the Configuration Management frame of the Details
screen, and pressing the "Apply" button. Once the groups have been created,
they remain until changed by the user, and can be used over and over. More
information on Device Group Strings is available.
- Select the groups
to which upcoming configuration operations should be applied. This is
done by entering one or more of the same Group String keywords used above
into the Group Control String box on
the opening screen of the Focal Point application. When this is done, an
"EDIT" indicator will appear in the cabinet view for each device that is in
any of the specified groups. More information on the Group Control String is available below.
Note that Focal Point will not permit you to edit the Group Control
String when any device Details screen is open.
- Make configuration
changes to the group(s). This is done by opening the "Details" screen
for any device that is the same model as any of the selected devices. Any
changes you make on this screen will be applied to the entire group(s),
rather than the particular device you have selected.
For example, a system
administrator could create the groups "finance" and "admin" by assigning these
values to various Device Group Strings. If this
were done and a Details Screen were opened and changed: - If the Group Control String were set to "", no
Group evaluation would be done. This would cause changes made on the
Details Screen of a particular slide-in device to affect the selected
device and no others.
- the Group Control String were set to "admin",
all operations on the Details Screen of a particular device would be
performed only on all devices of that model that had the "admin" keyword in
their Group Strings. Note that the
selected device would be unaffected, unless it happened to be in the
"admin" group. This feature could be used to copy the configuration of a
device in the "finance" group to the "admin" group.
- The Group Control String could be set to
"admin finance" to cause the changes to be applied to any devices that
belonged to one or both groups.
- the Group Control String were set to "kumquat", no changes would be made to any device.
For more information on the composition of Device Group Strings and
Group Control Strings, read the appropriate sections later in this
document.
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