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The Grouping Manager
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Format Definitions. The first three lines are required. They define the format of the data that follows. The
first three lines are:
#SYNTAX VERSION:1.0
Resource_UniqueName <tab> Resource_Type <tab> Resource_Name [ <tab> attribute
...
]
<tab> <tab> <tab> (<attribute_type>) [ <tab> (<attribute_type>)
...
]
The first line simply defines the version of the import syntax:
#SYNTAX VERSION:1.0
Enter this exactly as specified.
The second line defines the mapping of the data in the file to EPICenter resources:
Resource_UniqueName
<tab>
Resource_Type
<tab>
Resource_Name [
<tab>
attribute
...
]
●
The first three items are required:
■
Resource_UniqueName
specifies that the first field maps to the unique ID.
■
Resource_Type
specifies that the second field defines the resource type (user, host, group, device,
or port).
■
ResourceName
specifies that the third field maps to the resource name. This is the name that
appears as the name of the resource in the Grouping Manager.
●
The remaining items on the line define the attributes that can be included for each resource. The
names you specify here are used as the attribute names in the Grouping Manager.
The third line defines the type of each attribute (Generic, IP/subnet, or Netlogin ID).
<tab> <tab> <tab> (<attribute_type>) [ <tab> (<attribute_type>)
...
]
Each type specifier must be enclosed by parenthesis, and separated from the preceding type specifier by
a tab. Three tabs must precede the first type specifier.
●
The items in this line define the type of each attribute defined in line two. You must include a type
specification for every attribute included in line two.
●
The first three items in line two do not require a type (as they are predefined). You skip these by
including the three tabs before the first type specifier.
Resource Definitions. The remaining lines in the first section define the resources to be imported. Each
resource must include the uniqueID, the resource type, and a name. Attribute values are optional, and
are assigned in the order presented on the line (separated by tabs). These lines are formatted as follows:
uniqueID1
<tab>
<resource_type>
<tab>
resource_name1
<tab>
{attribute
<tab>
...
}
uniqueID2 <tab> <resource_type> <tab> resource_name2 <tab> {attribute <tab>
...
}
...
uniqueIDn <tab> <resource_type> <tab> resource_nameN <tab> {attribute <tab>
...
}
●
uniqueID
is used as the resource’s unique name. It can be the same or different from the resource
name. For a device, the uniqueID must be the device IP address. For a port it is the IP address of the
device followed by the port number.
●
resource_type
can be
user
,
host
,
group
,
device
, or
port
.
●
resource_name
is the name that is displayed as the name of the resource.
●
attribute
defines the value of the attribute that corresponds to this position in the list.