File Format - 3Com Traffix Transcend Traffix Manager User Manual

File Format

Lines beginning with # are comments and are ignored. All other lines
take the form:
<Name> <label> <filename> <arguments> <flag>
<label> is used in the collector event logs to refer your attribute
lookup program. Otherwise it is unused.
<filename> is the name of the attribute lookup program. This
should normally be an executable file located in the main Traffix
Manager install directory (by default this is C:\Transcend
Traffix Manager). This program could be one of the standard
attribute lookup programs (fileattrs or dblookup), or it could be
an attribute lookup program which you have written yourself and
copied to the Traffix Manager install directory. If your filename
contains the space character, then surround it with double quotes
(" ").
<arguments> are the arguments to be passed to the attribute
lookup program on the command line. The correct arguments to pass
to fileattrs and dblookup are described in
Program"
page
surround them with double quotes (" ").
The <flag> column should normally be TRUE. If this column is FALSE
then the attribute program in question is not used to determine
attributes when devices are newly discovered; it is only run when you
explicitly reload attributes from Traffix Manager using the Reload
Attributes dialog box.
Note that you can add the same program to the configuration file several
times with different arguments. For example, if you want to use
fileattrs to lookup your own data file, you can add an entry like this:
Mylookup fileattrs.exe "c:\my data\data.txt" TRUE
You can specify up to 14 programs, and place them in any order.
The programs are activated sequentially, so if one program is dependent
upon the results of another it must appear after that program in the list.
As a result, you can form a chain of processes that extend attribute
assignments depending upon the outcome of the previous process.
Contents of the User-defined Attributes Configuration File
on page 140 and
142. If your arguments contain the space character, then
"Using the fileattrs
"Using the dblookup Program"
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