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Customizing Device Tag Labels

Configuration File

<TRAVERSE_HOME>/etc/emerald.xml

Restart This Component After Changing the Configuration File

Description

Traverse provides five customizable device tags, which you can define to meet your needs. For example, you can store information about where a device is located (city, state, building, room, rack) or what corporate group it belongs to (payroll, helpdesk, etc.) By default, these attributes are displayed with the labels Custom Attribute 1, Custom Attribute 2, etc. You can change these labels to more meaningful names by editing the following section:

<device-tags>
<tag index="1" description="Custom Attribute 1"/>
<tag index="2" description="Custom Attribute 2"/>
<tag index="3" description="Custom Attribute 3"/>
<tag index="4" description="Custom Attribute 4"/>
<tag index="5" description="Custom Attribute 5"/>
</device-tags>

Replace the description parameters with the labels that you want to see in the Web Application. For example:

<device-tags>
<tag index="1" description="City"/>
<tag index="2" description="State"/>
<tag index="3" description="Building"/>
<tag index="4" description="Room"/>
<tag index="5" description="Rack"/>
</device-tags>

Note: These definitions do not affect the way custom attributes are stored or used. They affect the display labels only for the tags.

Note: Upon upgrade of the Traverse software, the changes to the device tag labels must be reinstated since they are currently not preserved automatically across upgrades.