HP Network Direr Software Products manual Selection, Network Director

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Device and Port As outlined above, you can specify the devices or ports to which a given Selections configuration template is to be applied, by creating a device or port

selection.

By default, whenever a configuration operation is invoked, the selection will be based on the devices, end-stations and/or links currently selected in the map, according to the chosen configuration template, as follows:

For device-based configuration templates, the selection will contain:

■all devices that are selected in the map

For port-based configuration templates, the selection will contain:

■all ports attached to links that are selected in the map

■all ports attached to end-stations that are selected in the map

■all devices that are selected in the map. Note that none of the ports will be selected on these devices by default, unless selected by one of the previous two points.

The currently selected devices or ports can be viewed and modified using the Selection Editor dialog box, as explained in “Selection Editor Dialog Box” on page 584.

A device or port selection can be saved for reuse at a later date. This allows for the creation of device or port groups that potentially need to be configured together on a regular basis. For example, all ports attached to users in the Marketing Department. This, combined with saveable configuration templates, provides a very powerful configuration feature, that once defined, will allow the user to visualize and configure the network in terms of device/port groups and configuration profiles.

Saved selections are independent of both the map and the configuration templates, and can therefore be reused in conjunction with different map files and different configuration templates.

Components	This section describes how to use the Bulk Configuration feature of 3Com
	Network Director.