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The Grouping Manager
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Searching from the Add Resources or Add Relationship Window
When you initiate a search from the Add Resources or Add Relationship window, you can identify
resources with a common set of attributes, which can simplify the process of finding the attributes you
want to include in a group. Once you find a set of resource using the Find function from the Add
Resources or Add Relationship windows, you can add those resources directly from the Find window
to the Resource Results list of the “Add...” window.
Setting up a search is the same regardless of where you initiate the Find function. This is describe in the
section “
Setting up a Resource Search ,” on page 239 .
NOTE
When you do a search from the Add Resources or Add Relationship windows, the results includes only those
resources that are relevant to the Add function you are performing.
To add resources you have identified with the Search function to the Resource Results list of the Add
Resources or Add Relationship windows, do the following:
1 Select and highlight the resource or resources you want to add.
2 Click the Add button to add those resources to the Resource Results list.
The selected resources are added to the list, and the Search window is closed.
To close the Search window without adding any resources, click the Cancel button.
Importing Resources
The Import feature allows you to import user and host resource definitions, and groups containing
those resources, from a source external to the EPICenter system. You can import from an NT Domain
server, an NIS server, or an LDAP directory. You can also import host and user resource definitions from
a tab-delimited text file.
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Importing from a text file requires a tab-delimited file in a very specific format.
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Importing from an LDAP directory requires an import specification file that defines how to map
entries in the LDAP directory to resources and their attributes.
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Importing default domain information from an NT Domain server or an NIS server does not require
any special preparation.
NOTE
If you import information from an LDAP server or NT Domain Controller, that information becomes visible to all
EPICenter users. If this is a security concern, you may want to consider exporting information from the NT Domain
Controller or LDAP directory to a file, and using that to create an import file that contains only the information that
you want to be visible through EPICenter Grouping Manager.
Imported resources are placed under a group created in the Import Sources group (one of the pre-
defined EPICenter groups). The name you specify in the Source Name field of the Import dialog is used
as the group name.