User's Manual

40 CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED
Using saved Network Supervisor maps
You can load maps generated with Network Supervisor into Network
Director and they will be automatically upgraded for use with Network
Director, but with the following restrictions:
■ All stress monitoring will initially be disabled
■ Any manually disabled stress monitors will be re-enabled
■ Any manually adjusted thresholds will be reset to default values
■ Information shown in the Network Director Properties dialog may be
incomplete
■ Saved 3Com Network Supervisor event logs ("Mapname Events.mdb"
files) are not compatible with 3Com Network Director. 3Com Network
Director uses a new event log file format and file extension
("Mapname Events.edb"). When you load 3Com Network Supervisor
maps into 3Com Network Director the event log will initially be empty.
■ Upgraded maps will not contain any support for new features in
3Com Network Director - such as WAN support, or updated support
for 3Com network devices.
To avoid these problems, it is strongly recommended that you rediscover
your network using 3Com Network Director.
However, if you want to use saved 3Com Network Supervisor maps,
please use the following steps to ensure maximum compatibility:
1 For each map that you want to upgrade, copy the following files from
your 3Com Network Supervisor map file location (by default: <Network
Supervisor install directory>\maps\my_maps) into your 3Com Network
Director map file location (by default: <Network Director install
directory>\maps\my_maps):
Mapname.map
Mapname.properties
2 Copy the following file from your 3Com Network Supervisor map file
location into your 3Com Network Director map file location:
Untitled.properties
3 You should now be able to view and open your saved map files from
within 3Com Network Director.