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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

1610.0. "Announcing the OUTLET AM and AutoCAD dxf file to MCC backdrop converter." by ANTIK::WESTERBERG (Stefan Westerberg CS Stockholm) Mon Oct 07 1991 14:38


          Announcing the OUTLET AM and AutoCAD dxf file to MCC backdrop
          converter.


          With these two tools you will be able to document all your
          outlets directly on building drawings in DECmcc backdrops.
          The OUTLET AM let you register a global entity with any of
          the following type:

                  FDDI
                  Telephone
                  Terminal
                  Thinwire_BNC
                  Thinwire_TAP

          Warning we have used the global entity 101 but we haven't
          done any offical registration !


          The kits can be found at the following location:

          $ DIR COMBAT::SYS$PUBLIC:

          Directory COMBAT::USR:[KIT]

          CONVERT_MAP_V10.BCK;1   693 3-OCT-1991 13:13:24.00
          MCCOUTLET011.A;1        189 7-OCT-1991 10:01:07.00
          MCCOUTLET011.B;1        441 7-OCT-1991 10:01:29.00

          Total of 3 files, 1323 blocks.


          No support only sympathy


          Regards from the Swedish hacking developers
          Johan, Kenneth, Kristina, Stefan and Niklas
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1610.1great solution, which problem?NAC::ENGLANDMon Oct 07 1991 17:075
    How would you see this AM being used?  I'm interested, I used to work
    on similar software a few years ago...
    
    ben
1610.2more infoCLARID::HOFSTEETake a RISC, buy a VAXTue Oct 08 1991 05:1911

Could you expand a little bit more on what this AM offers me, before I
start installing it. Is this a first step to cable management? Since we
have a project running on cable management, we might be interested in
this AM.

More info please

Timo
1610.3STKMCC::LUNDTue Oct 08 1991 13:4410
Hi

Yes this is an attempt to manage the unmanageble things called outlets and
cables.
The AM just gives you a consistant way of storing some reference attributes of
the oulets and then you can see their physical location on a real autocad
drawing by using the DXF to MCC-mapfile converter.


/Niklas
1610.4DELNI , DEMPER's ?BONNET::MALAISEAll you need is laugh!Thu Oct 10 1991 14:458
    
    	Question to Eng : 
    
    	Could this be used for Ethernim Database Conversion tool ,
    regarding the DELNI's DEMPer located in Ethernim Database ?
    
    Regards ,
    MaRc
1610.5reference AMBILFSH::PAQUETThu Oct 10 1991 15:049

	I believe in V1.2 we will be providing a reference AM which will
	allow us to place non-manage-able devices such as DELNIs, DEREPs,
	and DEMPRs on the map, to have reference data associated with these
	entities, and have these entities be targets for alarms potentially.

	regards
	ray
1610.6conversion utility=backdrop solutionsJETSAM::WOODCOCKWed Nov 13 1991 12:0115
My hat is off to the 'inventors'. Although I didn't try the AM itself
I have used the conversion utility with great success. Our backdrop problem
is that we are helping to manage a company network which is global in
nature (ok, lets call it DEC) but half of the global backbone sites reside
within 40 miles and the rest are spread over 3k miles in a couple of different
directions. Solution: Take an AUTOcad map of US, one of Europe, merge them,
make a blow-out of the 40 mile area, output to dxf, run convert_map, and
we now have a backdrop which expresses the real scope of mngmt. A fine
utility.

thanks,
brad...

ps. any way (easy) I can make the land one color and the rest of the backdrop
another?
1610.7TOOK::R_SPENCENets don't fail me now...Tue Nov 19 1991 16:4610
    You can make closed polygons (object type 4?) be whatever color you
    set the resource mcc_pml.map_backdropForeground: to.
    Last I looked it was the last one in the MCC_RESOURCE.DAT file.
    
    Mine looks like this:
    
    	mcc_pml.map_backdropForeground: Lightgrey
    
    
    s/rob
1610.8F18::ROBERTWed Dec 18 1991 15:465
    By any chance do you have any documentation that goes with this
    package/
    
    Thanks Dave
1610.9STKMCC::LUNDNiklas LundWed Dec 18 1991 16:3810
Hi

There is small text file in the convert_map saveset that explains how to use
that tool.

Unfortunately the Outlet AM user's guide got corrupted... and nobody had any
time to rewrite it.
The Outlet AM is anyway more or less replaced by the Reference AM in 1.2

/Niklas