I htink you will see this mostly on things that are added to a collections
simultaneously
with discovery. If you delete (Edit..Delete.. From this/any) the egg for
the collection, it
immediately reappears and the symbols that were finally used by ipmap will
be used by
collections as well. Over time, of course, new devices appear, so once in a
while you will
need to do this again. There was a problem for a while where it depended on
how they
were discovered - by address or name. But I think you got really wrong
things, like cards
instead of routers, for devices where the IP Hostname field and the
Selection Name field
were different, and the workaround for that was to delete and rediscover
the object by
hostname. Or something. But I have not seen that problem at current
maintenance levels.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager


---------------------- Forwarded by Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM on 03-09-99
06:49 AM ---------------------------


Vladimir Petr <petr AT DATASYS DOT CZ> on 03-09-99 05:12:23 AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
      NetView <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM)
Subject:  Re: symbol customization lost in collections





Hello, Ralph;
I have seen this happen as well. As I understand it, ipmap does not talk to
collmap  in this way (at
least by default), i.e. it does not pass a symbol label to collmap but the
symbol label in a
collection is based somehow upon the object's selection name. When I wanted
to do the same as you
did, I had to modify symbols in the collection itself....huh 8-((
Anyone can shed light on this?

Best regards,
Vladimir.

Schiffinger Ralph 2100 wrote:
>
> Hi, group!
>
> For better readability i've done quite a lot of symbol customization on
> my ip
> map, especially on networks and segments
> ("Edit-Modify/Describe-Symbol").
>
> Example:
> IP Network Symbol with Label "172.21.6" becomes "MyServers:172.21.6".
> Underlying Token Ring Segment Symbol with Label "Segment1" becomes
> "MyServers".
>
> "Edit-Modify/Describe-Symbol-Description of Child Submap" is set
> accordingly.
> "Edit-Modify/Describe-Object-Set Selection Name" is set accordingly as
> well.
> And of course "File-Describe Map-Configure For This Map- Should IP Map
> override user symbol customization?" is set to FALSE!
>
> Works fine on ip map, but - whatever i've tried till now, all this
> customization is lost in collections!
> (Poor readability for a collection with about 60 Segments all labeled
> "Segment1"...)
>
> This has been annoying me for quite a while...
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> Regards, Ralph.
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