Automatic Attribute Assignment; Overview - 3Com Traffix Transcend Traffix Manager User Manual

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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
Automatic attribute assignment within Traffix
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
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"
page 138.
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