Starting Up the ATM and VLAN Manager 2-13

These files and directories must be backed-up before installing/upgrading to a newer release of the ATM and VLAN Management application.

The ATMvLAN NMSetup Wizard allows you to modify these configuration files. This customization will take effect upon restarting the application after the customization is performed using the customization Wizard.

Table 2-2 lists the names of the some files that you can customize using the NMSetup Wizard.

Table 2-2ATMvLAN Customization Files

Filename

Description

 

 

mediationd.cnf

This file has the information about all the distributed pollers

 

and the devices that each poller is responsible. The setup of

 

distributed pollers is explained in the See “Setting Up for

 

Distributed Polling” on page 2-4.

 

This file is customized by the Setup Wizard.

noplatdis.cnf

If this file exists, the application will not discover from the

 

platform database. It will rely on manual population of the

 

device database

 

(C:\TranscendNT\ATMvLAN\runtime\sav\127.0.0.1.ppp)

127.0.0.1.ppp

using the Manual Discovery Tool. The default is to use

platform discovery and this file by default is

 

 

noplatdis.cnf.bak

 

This file is customized by the Setup Wizard

numcpsrvs.cnf

The number set in this file (1-16) determines the number of

 

LESs displayed in the maps. So if you are only using 2

 

LES/CoreBuilder, set the number to 2 and only the first 2

 

LESs of the CoreBuilder are shown in the maps.

 

This file is not customized by the Setup Wizard.

protimeout.cnf

The number in this file determines the number of seconds

 

that the application will wait for the network to settle down

 

before it start the LES failure verification process. This

 

number could be tuned down to about 120 seconds if

 

there are not redundant switch engines in the network. See

 

Chapter 4 for a more detailed description. If there are

 

redundant switch engines, the default number should be

 

used.

 

This file is customized by the Setup Wizard.

VnRgb.dat

Is the file where the VLAN aliases and color information is

 

saved after the aliases and colors are set. This file must be

 

saved when the application is upgraded to a newer release.

 

This files is customized by using the VLAN Aliases and

 

Colors setup assistant.

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