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User-Defined Telnet Macros
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NOTE
The execution context and execution roles only affect how Telnet macros appear in menus outside the
Telnet applet. Any user who has access to the Telnet applet can run any macro in any context.
Figure 36 shows an example of a set of Telnet macros available from the Macros sub-menu of a
right-click pop-up menu. These macros have a Device execution context and thus are available on the
Macros menu when a device is selected in the Component Tree.
Figure 36: Telnet macros available from the Macros sub-menu
The execution context and execution roles interact in that a macro will be available to a user only if the
macro matches the execution context of the selected component (Device Group, Device, or Port)
and the
user’s role has been included as an execution role defined for the macro.
If you do not specify any execution role at all for the macro, that macro will not be available for
execution outside of the Telnet applet. In that case, only users who have access to the Telnet applet will
be able to execute the macro, as it will be available to be run only from within the Macro Player.
Role-based Telnet Macro Execution
Role-based macros allow a network administrator to script certain configuration or status-display
functions so that they can be performed by EPICenter users who should not have unlimited Telnet
access to a device.
For example, a network administrator may want to allow an assistant to run macros that add the
standard configuration settings to devices newly added to the network (as in the Example 2 on page 80)
but not have Telnet access otherwise. The administrator could create a user role for his assistants that
does not allow access to the Telnet applet. However, when creating the new device configuration
macro, he would specifically allow the assistant role as an execution role for this macro. Any of his