Adding and editing cross-domain links manually

If you do not see links between devices in different domains, you can manually create or configure them.

About this task

To add or edit cross-domain links, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Back up and edit the stitcher file NCHOME/precision/disco/stitchers/LinkDomainsLoadPresetConnections.stch.
  2. Uncomment the OQL insert statement.
  3. Copy one OQL insert statement for each connection that you want to make.
  4. Edit the OQL insert statement and add the details of the connection that you want to create, using the following parameters:
    entryNo
    A unique numeric ID for this row. Start at 1 and increase to n.
    action
    Set to ADD to add a connection.
    aEndDiscoDomainName
    The domain in which the device at the beginning of the connection was discovered. This connection is created only after a discovery is run in this domain.
    aEndDiscoEntityName
    The entityName of the device at the beginning of the connection.
    zEndNCIMDomainName
    The domain in which the device at the end of the connection is located. If a discovery is run in only this domain, this connection is not created.
    zEndNCIMEntityName
    The entityName of the device at the end of the connection.
    topologyEntityType
    The NCIM topology entityType of the connection.