Allied Telesis AlliedView-UM 2.0 - Manual (Page 28)

6. Click on the button to add the new device.
7. After the device is added, the Device Families Pane will be updated with a new node
represented by the IP address of that device.
8. If you decide not to continue adding the device, click on the button.
B. Loading/Updating Device Definitions from a Comma Separated Value (CSV) File
An alternative way of adding or updating multiple devices is by pre-defining them in a
Comma Separated Value (CSV) file. AlliedView-UM then imports the definitions contained
in this file and adds them to the specified device group.
The format of a CSV device definition is as follows:
IP_Address, login_name, password, system_name, system_description, SNMP_read_community, SNMP_timeout,
SNMP_retry, device_group, configuration_file
During the operation, AlliedView-UM will check if the IP_Address field of an entry is already
defined in the Device Family Tree. If the entry is already defined, then AlliedView-UM will
update the existing device definition with the values from the CSV file entry. Otherwise,
if the entry does not exist in the Device Family Tree, then AlliedView-UM will create a new
Device Definition.
The system_name, system_description and configuration_file fields may be set to the
following values:
• - If a value is provided, then AlliedView-UM will use that value for the
device definition.
• - When importing a device definition, if the field is blank (no value), then
AlliedView-UM will retrieve the value from the target device. When updating an
existing device definition, if the field is blank, then AlliedView-UM will not update
the corresponding field in the device definition.
• "*" (asterisk) - When updating a device definition, if the field is set to "*", then
AlliedView-UM will retrieve the value from the target device. When importing
a device defintion, if this field is set to "*", then AlliedView-UM will also retrieve
the value from the target device.
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