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Coordination of External and NMS Profiles Profile Management
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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide (Configuring Network Services)
In release 11.0, this is changed; when the NMS sets the port attributes by deploying an NMS profile, the
SHOW INTERFACE
command on the iMAP displays the NMS profile name that has been applied as an External Profile name. Moreover, if at
the NMS a port is de provisioned, the iMAP output for External Profile is set to None.
At the NMS, when an iMAP port is displayed, the current value of the External Profile name will be displayed at or near the
bottom of the view-only attributes, labeled “Interface Profile Name”. Normally this name will match the Profile name
deployed by the NMS (displayed upper right). Refer to the following figure.
FIGURE 6-62 ADSL Details - NMS and Interface Profile
Whenever a profile is deployed by the NMS to the port, the Interface Profile Name will be set to the port Profile name. Note
that there is no other way to change the Interface Profile Name via the NMS. If for whatever reason the names do not match,
for example someone changes the external profile name on the device using the CLI, the port profile name (upper right) will
be marked with an asterisk. Normally this will only be detected during discovery, when the NMS automatically performs
port-profile comparison.
Note: The administrator must therefore be aware that if the External Profile Name is changed at the CLI, there
will be no notification of this at the NMS until the device is (re)discovered.
When a port is activated from the Ports Inventory table, a message such as the following will be displayed if the profile name
and external profile name do not match exactly: