User`s guide

9030944 E10 Importing and Exporting
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How the Import/Export Options Work
Export
Updates Version Number
When you import templates or configurations, you should understand how
ECM versioning works. ECM interprets the imported template or
configuration as the next version of the template or configuration if previous
versions exist.
To illustrate this, let us assume that you exported a configuration called
Weekday Version 3. Then you created two more versions of this configuration
so that the Weekday configuration in ECM has become Version 5. If you now
import the Weekday Version 3, it is listed in ECM as Weekday Version 6
because ECM assumes it is the next version in the sequence.
Imports All Device Types
When you use the Import option, you can import configurations and templates
for all device types in the file, regardless of the type of device you are working
with.
However, remember that you will see only the configurations or templates
that are available to your device type in the Configurations or Templates
windows.
For example, if you are running ECM for a HubCSIEmme device and you
import a configuration for a Rtr_CiscoIGS device, the imported configuration
will not be visible in the HubCSIEmme’s Configurations window. You have to
close ECM, select the Rtr_CiscoIGS in SpectroGRAPH, and open ECM again
before you can see that this configuration has been imported.
Export
Export What to What
The Export option exports one template or one configuration to a specified file.
When you click on the Export option, a file selection dialog box appears so you
can specify the directory and file to which the configuration or template should
be exported. Although you can select any directory, ECM’s default export
directory is:
<ECM install directory>/ecm/eximport
NOTE
If you import a device specific configuration to a landscape that does not have
the device to which the configuration is specific, the configuration loses its
device specific status. After you import device specific configurations, be
aware that these configurations may be listed as shared configurations.