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Managing your Network Assets
You can change any of the device contact information kept for a device in the EPICenter database
through the Modify Devices and Device Groups dialog in the Inventory Manager. If multiple devices
use the same contact information, you can change the information for all those devices in a single
operation (if they are members of the same device group).
In addition, you can change the device contact password (used for Telnet login) and the read and write
community strings in EPICenter, and EPICenter will, at your option, also change them on the device.
This means you can change basic device contact information from within EPICenter, and still maintain
the ability to contact the device. You could then run a Telnet macro on the device to make changes to
the other device contact settings.
To change contact information on multiple devices at the same time, from the Modify Devices and
Device Groups dialog you select those devices in the device list, as shown in Figure 30. Fields that must
be changed individually (such as the Device IP address and SSH) or fields that are not relevant (such as
the Cisco Enable Password in this case) become unavailable.
Figure 30: Changing device contact information for multiple devices
When you change one or more of the settings that EPICenter can configure on the device, EPICenter
displays a window asking if you'd like to make the change on the device as well as in the EPICenter
database. If you change the device contact password and both community strings, the pop-up appears
as shown in Figure 31.
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