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Provisioning a Device Using Custom Loads to Reduce Unneeded Card Types
AlliedView NMS Administration Guide (Controlling and Provisioning Network Devices)
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FIGURE 5-55 File Chooser - to select a file in Type Details
After creation, custom loads can be selected when modifying a device software configuration. A warning will be displayed the
first time a custom load is used giving the user a last chance to back out before making sure the load configuration is defined
correctly. See Figure 5-56.
Note: Once a custom load is used, the warning will never be displayed again.
FIGURE 5-56 Confirmation Before Using a Custom Load
5.3.11 Using Custom Loads to Reduce Unneeded Card Types
Standard loads are defined to load software for all card types a device may support at a given release level. In most cases, this
will be more software than necessary since most devices will not contain all possible card types. Download times and memory
usage will be greater than necessary. To streamline software configuration, create a Custom Load containing only the neces-
sary files. Leave the fields for the unneeded files blank. You can use the Details display of a standard load as a guide to see the
names of the files you do need.
Figure 5-57 shows a Load Details window for a Standard Load that can be used as a guide for creating a streamlined Custom
Load. Filenames can be copied/pasted from this display to the custom load display (Use ctl-c/ctl-v on Windows, left-click/mid-
dle-click on Solaris)