Owner's Manual

632 Resource Roles
Figure 15-1. Resource Role Manager
The following are the Action or right-click menu controls on the Resource Role Manager:
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New —Creates a new resource role. Select the type of role in the screen that appears after you
click
New to select either a Resource or Configuration File role.
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Open —Opens the selected resource role for modification with the editor described in Creating
or Modifying Resource Roles.
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Delete —Deletes an resource role. Select the role to remove and click Delete . The application
prompts you for confirmation.
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Map —Open a Topology view containing the resources that are members of a selected role. See
Chapter 21, Topology Views for more about what appears when you select this option.
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Export /Import —Export or import the listed items as/from XML. Import brings in an resource
role. The
Export menu item exports an resource role to a text file (RC-
EquipmentRole_entities.oof by default). These exported files can serve as backups or as seed
files, and can be imported by clients running on other servers.
- Print—Print the listed items to an Acrobat file. (You must have Acrobat reader installed for this to
work properly.) Change the filter and click
Go to change this printed report’s appearance.
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Help —Open the context-sensitive help for this screen.
Creating or Modifying Resource Roles
To edit an existing role, select it and click Open . To create a new role, click New . If you click New,
you must decide whether to create a
Generic Role (described in the following sections), or, if you
have the
File Management option installed, you can create a Configuration File Role .