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AUTOMATIC ATTRIBUTE
ASSIGNMENT
This appendix describes:
■ Overview
■ Contents of the User-defined Attributes Configuration File
■ Performing Attribute Assignment
■ Using the fileattrs Program
■ Using the dblookup Program
■ Writing your own program
Overview Automatic attribute assignment within Traffix
™
Manager lets you
automatically import attribute values from various data sources to create
groupings and to identify objects in the Map.
The data sources could be a text file, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a
Microsoft Access database or a program that you write. A program can
carry out arbitrary processing, such as searching a file or performing a
database lookup.
Attributes can also be manually assigned to objects using the Attributes
option (see Chapter 4
, “Grouping Network Devices in the Map” for more
information on attributes).
Automatic attribute assignment is set up using the user-defined attributes
configuration file.
This file can be edited by double clicking on Attribute Lookup in the
Traffix Control Panel. The contents of the file are described in detail in
“Contents of the User-defined Attributes Configuration File”
on
page 138
.