Loading a Configuration from a Directory
If your VTA configuration is stored in a directory, you need to connect to the directory before you load configurations into VTA Configuration Manager.
To connect to a directory and load a configuration from the directory:
The Connecting to the Directory page appears.
See Connecting to the Directory Fields.
The software loads the configuration that you specified in the Configuration Namespace field, and the Edit Configuration page appears with your configuration. From this page, you can view or change your VTA configuration.
Inheritance of Properties in Parent and Child Nodes
If you import a configuration that was created in SDX Admin and that contains parent and child nodes (see Figure 27), this section describes how VTA Configuration Manager handles the inheritance of properties.
When you import a VTA configuration from the directory, the imported configuration inherits all the properties in the intermediate nodes that appear in the configuration namespace.
If you enter the name of a child node in the configuration namespace when you import a VTA configuration, both the parent node and the child node are loaded into VTA Configuration Manager. During the loading process, if a property is configured in both the parent node and the child node, the value of the property in the child node overwrites the value of the property in the parent node.
After the configuration has been imported into VTA Configuration Manager, you cannot delete or disable properties that are inherited. Delete and Disable buttons for those properties are disabled.
If you change the value of an inherited property, only the change to the property is written to the child node when you commit the change back to the directory. The value in the parent node is not changed.
Connecting to the Directory Fields
Use the fields described in this section to configure the connection to the VTA configuration in the directory. In VTA Configuration Manager, you can edit the following fields in the Connecting to the Directory screen.
Directory Host
- Location of the directory in which VTA configurations are stored.
- Value—ldap://<IP address or hostname>:<port number>/
- Default—ldap://127.0.0.1:389/
Bind DN
Static Configuration DN
- Subtree in the directory in which the VTA configuration is stored.
- Value—<DN>
- Default—l=VTA, ou=staticConfiguration, ou=Configuration, o=Management, o=umc
Configuration Namespace
- Name and path of the configuration file that you want to load from the directory or that you want to commit to the directory.
- Value—Directory path and name of the configuration file. The sample data is in the following files: