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ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 8-7
—EPICenterindicates that the resource wasdefined bythe EPICenter software:either
by the Grouping Manager in the case of the predefined groups, or by another
EPICenter applet in the case of device group, device, port, or VLAN resources. You
cannot modify these resources or their children (if they are groups) through the
Grouping Applet.
—Manualindicates that this is a user-defined resource, created within the grouping
applet using the New button. These resources can be deleted from the Grouping
Manager using the Destroy function. The exception is the three predefined groups,
Hosts, Users, and Port Groups, which are considered Manual resources but cannot
be destroyed. If the user-defined resource is a group, you can add and remove
children as desired.
— Imported resources are assigned a source name as part of the Import process. See
“Importing Resources” on page 8-28 for more information.
User-defined (Manual) resources can be deleted using the Destroy function.
System-defined (EPICenter) and imported resources cannot be deleted, although they
can be removed as children of other groups to which you have added them. See
“Deleting Resources” on page page 8-11for more information on deleting resources,
and“RemovingA ChildResourcefrom a Group”onpage 8-15formoreinformationon
removing resources from groups.
• Unique Name:a name that uniquely defines this resource within the Source scope. For
user-defined resources (Source is Manual) this will always be blank.
— For pre-defined resources, the Unique Name is the same as the Resource Name.
— For device resources, the Unique Name is the device IP address.
— Forportresources,theUnique NameistheIP addressofthe devicefollowedby the
port number. For ports on a chassis device, the port number combines the slot
number and the port number.
— For resources importedfrom a file or LDAP directory, the Unique Name is specified
in the input process, and may be different from the Resource Name.
Below these fields there are two tabbed pages whose contents depends on the type of
resource being displayed.
• For Groups, you can view a list of Children of the group. This lists the resources
(individual resources or subordinate groups) associated with the selected group. For
each child, the list includes the resource name, its type, and its source.
• ForUser, PortandHostresources,you canviewa listofRelationships fortheresource.
This displays a list of other resources related to the selectedresource.