User guide

8-28 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
The Grouping Manager
To add resources you’ve identified with the Search function to the Resource Results list of
the Add Resources or Add Relationship windows, do the following:
1 Select and highlight the resource or resources you want to add.
2 Click the Add button to add those resources to the Resource Results list.
The selected resources are added to the list, and the Search window is closed.
To close the Search window without adding any resources, click the Cancel button.
Importing Resources
The Import feature allows you to import user and host resource definitions, and groups
containingthoseresources,fromasourceexternaltotheEPICentersystem.Youcanimport
from an NT Domain server, an NIS server, or an LDAP directory. You can also importhost
and user resource definitions from a tab-delimited text file.
• Importing from a text file requires a tab-delimited file in a very specific format.
• Importing from an LDAP directory requires an import specification file that defines
how to map entries in the LDAP directory to resources and their attributes.
• Importing default domain information from an NT Domain server or an NIS server
does not require any special preparation.
If you import information from an LDAP server or NT Domain Controller, that
information will become visible to all EPICenter users. If this is a security concern,
you may want to consider exporting information from the NT Domain Controller or
LDAP directory to a file, and using that to create an import file that contains only the
information that you want to be visible through EPICenter Grouping Manager.
Imported resources are placed under a group created in the Import Sources group (one of
the pre-definedEPICenter groups). Thename you specify in the Source field of theImport
dialog will be used as the group name.
You can perform the same import operation (importing from the same source) multiple
times.Once animport iscomplete,subsequentimports fromthe same source will act asan
update:
• Existing resources will be left intact (including any attributes you may have added).
• New resources will be added.