HP Network Direr Software Products manual Using saved Network Supervisor maps

40CHAPTER 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:

1For 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

2Copy the following file from your 3Com Network Supervisor map file location into your 3Com Network Director map file location:

Untitled.properties

3You should now be able to view and open your saved map files from within 3Com Network Director.