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Using Resource Interface Types
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Modifying Resource Interface Type Location Information
This section (including the following topics) describes how you modify the interface type location
information for your resource types:
• Using Resource Interface Type Location Names
• Generating Unique Location Names
Using Resource Interface Type Location Names
You can use the Inventory perspective to generate resource location names with unique identifiers. The
Active System Manager Pattern Generator tool can generate assets and resource names with unique
identifiers. Using a range, you can create a long list of names and asset tags that have either letters or
numbers appended to the string.
The format for the range string is (1..9999), (A..Z), (a..z), (AA..ZZ), or (aa..zz). Because uppercase and
lowercase letters are treated as dif
ferent values, there is a range of 308,915,776 unique letter combinations.
Special characters and punctuation are not supported. You can use any whole numbers in either ascending
or descending order; you can use up to four range strings for an asset tag or name. Hence, if you used the
pattern “Cisco(1..3)” for a resource name, the Inventory perspective generates three names (Cisco1,
Cisco2, and Cisco3).
Note If your range string begins with a single digit (1 to 9), use a zero to force the generator to make the
patterns identical; for instance, Cisco[01..25].
For more information about the Pattern Generator, see the “Using the Pattern Generator Tool” section on
page 5-25.
Note Dell recommends that you do not generate more than 100 patterns at once.
Generating Unique Location Names
To generate unique location names, perform the following steps:
1. In the Resource Types view, right-click a resource type and select Open to open the resource type in its
own editor workspace.
2. Scroll down to the Interface Types > Locations column; see Figure 5-20.
Figure 5-20 Interface Types—Locations Column