Ericsson LBI-39169 manual Adding Symbols to Edacs Maps, Deleting Symbols, Adding a Connection

LBI-39169 PROCEDURES

14.5 ADDING SYMBOLS TO EDACS MAPS

Use the following procedure to add symbols to the EDACS Maps.

To drag a symbol onto an OpenView Network Node Manager Map,

1.Select the EDIT-> Add Object Menu item from the OpenView Network Node Manager main menu bar. An Add Object Palette window appears.

2.Scroll through the Symbol Classes until the EDACS class appears.

3.Double click on the EDACS Symbol class and the individual EDACS symbols appear.

4.Position the mouse over the symbol of interest, press the middle mouse button, and drag the symbol onto the desired map.

5.Depress the mouse, and the popup window appears.

6.Select the “EDACS Map Generation” attribute section and “Set Object Attributes.” Fill in the identifiers and any other applicable fields. The Help button provides on-line help to for field meanings.

7.Follow the on-line OpenView NNM help to fill in the remaining window fields.

8.Notably, the selection name specifies the database key for the object represented by the symbol. Therefore, the selection name must be unique for all objects. The one exception is the selection name for directly connected EDACS elements - BCU/CAL, PI, EDG, System Manager, and CEC/IMC Manager. Directly connected elements must have their selection name equal to the one found by IPMAP. IPMAP will use the host name by preference but will use the IP Address if it cannot determine the Host Name.

After the symbol is added, it may need to be connected to another symbol using the Adding a Connection procedure, which is presented below.

14.6 DELETING SYMBOLS

Use the following procedure to delete a symbol from the OpenView map.

1.Select the symbol with the left mouse button.

2.Select the EDIT->Delete->From All Submaps menu item from the OpenView main menu bar. A Delete Object warning popup will appear.

NOTE

To delete a symbol that has a submap, select EDIT->Delete->From All Submaps. Selecting EDIT->Delete->From this Submap to delete a symbol will cause the symbols on the submap to be orphaned and remain in the OpenView database. To access orphaned submaps, do Edit->Submapwhich will list all submaps, then perform the Deleting Orphaned Submaps procedure.

14.7 ADDING A CONNECTION

When an EDACS icon is manually added for a directly connected EDACS element, the selection name must equal the IP Address of the element. The following elements are directly connected EDACS elements: PI, BCU/CAL, CEC/IMC Manager, and System Manager. This ties the EDACS icon with the EDACS capabilities to the object created by IPMAP, the

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