Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

11-22 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Using Baseline Configurations for Configuration Management

To create a custom template, you must create an XML file and save it in the following directory on your

Fabric Manager client:

<User_Home>/Fabric Manager/<server_IP_address/client/baseline/templates

The standard configuration template files are also in this directory.

To create a custom baseline template, you must define custom XML tags

1. Open fullBaseLineTemplate.xml in a text editor. This file is in the following location:

<User_Home>/Fabric Manager/<server_IP_address/client/baseline/templates

2. Edit the Description tag in the .xml file by providing a template name for your new baseline

configuration between the <summary> and </summary> tags, as shown in the following example

3. Add or remove section tags to include or remove sections from the configuration file to the

template. Each section appears in the configuration file as text in square brackets ([ ]).

For example, to add the [Boot Parameters] section of the configuration file to the template, you can

use the Boot Parameters value attribute in a section tag. The Boot Parameter text attribute identifies

the checkbox in the Save Baseline -- Parameter Selection dialog box (see Figure 11-20). This

section tag includes a prefix tag to add parameters to the section.

Figure 11-20 Added Sections

Note

If you are running Fabric Manager in a Windows environment, the Notepad application

does not work for this task. To edit the XML document, you must open the file in

WordPad or a similar application that recognizes carriage returns.

<summary>My Template</summary>

<detail>This will show my custom parameters</detail>

</Description>

</section>