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Association Manager
Association Manager commands allow you to add, modify, or delete Categories and Elements. In
CommandCenter, each device or port has an associated IP Address and Port Name by default. For further
differentiation, additional types of attributes, known as
categories, are associated to the device or port for
ease of administration. Each Category has elements associated with it.
For example, the category “Country” might have the elements “USA,” “Japan,” and “Germany” associated
with it; the category “Location” might have the elements “San Jose,” “San Francisco,” and “New York”
associated with it, and so on. Once the tree view is customized using these attributes, you can easily find,
for example, all Firewall devices located in the New York location without searching through an extensive
list of managed devices/ports.
Once you add a new category and its elements, you can associate CommandCenter’s configured
devices/ports. When configuring devices/ports, you can choose one element from each category to
associate with each device/port.
Please see Appendix B: Initial Setup Process Overview for a summary of this process within
CommandCenter.
Add Category
1. On the Associations menu, click Association Manager . The Association Manager screen appears.
Figure 91 Association Manager Screen