User`s guide

Accessing ECM in SPECTRUM

Getting Started Enterprise Conﬁguration Manager

2-2 User’s Guide

Accessing ECM in SPECTRUM

Before you can begin working with ECM, you must have SpectroGRAPH up

and running. For instructions, see the SPECTRUM System

Administrator’s Guide.

To access Enterprise Conﬁguration Manager, follow these steps:

1. Open a view window in SpectroGRAPH.

ECM is accessible from any view window—Topology view, DevTop view, or

Device view, for example.

2. Select the device you want to work with. When selected, the border of the

device is highlighted.

3. Invoke ECM in one of the following ways:

• Place the cursor on the device and press the right mouse button (the

menu button) to display the Icon Subview menu. Select Utilities and

then EnterpriseConﬁgManager. See Figure 2-1 on Page 2-3.

• Or pull down the view menu at the top of the window, select Icon

Subview, then Utilities, and then EnterpriseConﬁgManager.

If you have performed a custom install and speciﬁed the preferred

landscapes that ECM should display, the ECM Main window appears.

Otherwise, a Preferences window appears so that you can select the

landscapes that you want to work with. To select landscapes, follow the

procedures described in Specifying ECM Preferences/Settings on Page 2-4.

If you have just installed ECM, the ECM Main window displays only the

list of landscapes that are visible to your SpectroSERVER. There are no

conﬁgurations listed under the landscape names because ECM does not

provide any default conﬁgurations. Since there are no conﬁgurations in

the window, all buttons are grayed-out and information ﬁelds are empty.

After users create conﬁgurations, however, ECM displays the names of the

conﬁgurations in the Conﬁguration Name list and information about the

selected conﬁguration in the rest of the window. Buttons become enabled

at this time.

NOTE

If you want to run ECM in a distributed VNM environment, click on the

device of the appropriate landscape and select a device within that

landscape. Then follow the steps in this section.

Remember: the SpectroSERVER component of ECM must be installed on

the VNMs that you plan to use for storing conﬁgurations and templates.