HP Network Direr Software Products manual Configuration, Templates

578CHAPTER 14: BULK CONFIGURATION

Key Concepts	The Bulk Configuration feature is designed to help make common
	changes to the software configuration of multiple devices in a single
	operation. The settings that you wish to administer can be defined by
	creating a configuration template to be applied to the devices during a
	configuration operation. The devices or ports to which the configuration
	is to be applied can be specified by creating a device selection or a port
	selection, as appropriate.
Configuration	Configuration Templates allow the user to define a specific configuration
Templates	that can be applied to a selection of devices or ports. They provide access
	to a variety of attributes, grouped by feature, and allow the values of
	these attributes to be specified, as required.
	All attributes contained in a configuration template are disabled by
	default, and it is possible to choose which attributes to configure by
	enabling some or all of them, as required. Note that 3Com Network
	Director will only attempt to set the specified values for each enabled
	attribute, on the selected devices or ports, at the point the configuration
	template is applied, and not whilst creating or editing the template.
	There are different types of configuration template, and the attributes
	that are available in each are dependent on the type of device or port that
	the template is used to configure.
	Devices that support a similar set of features will typically be supported by
	the same configuration template.
	There are currently two types of configuration template, one for Switch
	Devices and one for Switch Ports, as follows:
	■ Switch Devices — provides access to all of the device-level attributes
	that 3Com Network Director is able to configure on supported 3Com
	switches.
	■ Switch Ports — provides access to all of the port-level attributes that
	3Com Network Director is able to configure on supported 3Com
	switches.

Configuration templates can be saved for reuse at a later date. Saved configuration templates are independent of the map and can always be loaded regardless of the contents of the current map.