Users Guide

Resource Management Portlets and Editors | Resource Management
176 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
Edit Resources
—Lets you edit resources associated with the selected group like its location,
contact, or whether to manage it by hostname.
Topo lo gy —Displays a topology map of the selected group. See Presentation Capabilities for
more.
Actions —Select from a sub-menu of actions available for the group. This includes Adaptive CLIs.
Select from a sub-menu of Adaptive CLI.
If you want the target to be a group of devices, Ctrl + click the target devices before your
right-click to invoke an action, or right-click in the Groups portlet and select
Actions there.
File Management > Backup, Restore, Deploy —Lets you call on OpenManage Network
Manager’s NetConfig configuration file backup, restore and deploy capabilities. See
Backing
Up Configurations
on page 473 for an example of the steps this follows. See also
Configuration File Compare Window on page 459 and more about deploying updates to the
OS for the selected resource group. See
Deploying Firmware on page 476 for details.
When you select a group backup, and the group contains devices of several types, the
Device
Options
panel displays a tab for each device type. Select the backup parameters there before
executing or scheduling backup.
NOTE:
Some devices merge rather than replace configurations when you select Restore. (Cisco XR, for one)
You can tune resources consumed by processes like backup or resync. See How to: Tuning
Application Features’ Performance Impact on page 112
Link Discovery —Discover links between members of the selected group, and others. See New
Link
on page 189 and Link Discovery on page 190 for details.
Resync Resources —Queries the devices in the group to update OpenManage Network Manager’s
database. Resyncing also resyncs alarms on the selected device.