Avocent DSView 3, Installer/User Manual

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7. If a target device has a default name, you may indicate that, by default, it can be added to the
DSView 3 software database only if it supports specific connection type(s) in the appliance.
Enable the checkboxes for the specific connection types.
8. Click Save .
Topology synchronization options in the Resync Wizard
The Select Resync Options window in the Resync Wizard allows you to specify certain topology
synchronization options.
• Remove offline connections
• Delete target devices that no longer have connections
• Merge target device names
• Default target names allowed for connection types
This window is described in Resynchronizing managed appliances on page 273.
Each of these options has a default value, which you may change.
To change the default values of the options in the Resync Wizard:
1. Click the System tab.
2. Click Global Properties in the top navigation bar.
3. Click Wizard Defaults in the side navigation bar, then click Resync Wizard .
4. The Resync Wizard Default Options window will open.
• If you enable the Remove offline connections checkbox, by default, any appliance
connections that are reported as offline in the appliance will be deleted from the DSView
3 software database. The Resync Wizard does not add offline connections to the DSView
3 software database.
• If you enable the Delete target devices that no longer have connections checkbox, by
default, any target devices that no longer have connections will be permanently be deleted
from the DSView 3 software database.
• If you enable the Allow target devices with the same name to be merged into a single
target device checkbox, by default, the connection to a target device in the appliance will
be merged with the connection(s) to an existing target device in the DSView 3
software database.
• If a target device has a default name, you may indicate that, by default, it can be added to
the DSView 3 software database only if it supports specific connection type(s) in the
appliance. Enable the checkboxes for the specific connection types.
5. Click Save .
Merging target devices
You may also merge target devices from a Unit Tools window, see Merging target devices on
page 267.