OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Saving Map Customizations

The environment variable $MAP_CUSTOMIZATION (needed for pre-NNM 6.x only, standard menu item in NNM 6.x) allows ipmap to inform ovw that two new menu items should be available under the File menu to import and export an ASCII customization file. This file records standard information for all the icons in the Internet submap. It does not save customized objects such as manually added connections. The customization file is oh-so-welcome in reconstructing a map. This may be necessary because the map builder ruined the map beyond repair, a collection station had a database crash and had to rediscover its management domain, or the local database consistency was so bad that ovtopofix did not have the power to repair it.