Devices are defined within the ‘Device-‘ data sheets. Device Definitions serve two purposes:
•To define devices and associated templates
•To define device specific settings and file names
The following data fields are required to define the devices and categories:
•DN:x: – Defines a device name. Only 1 DN definition per device is allowed
e.g. DN:A:Primary Router
•DT:x: – Defines a template associated with . Multiple DT’s per device are allowed
e.g. DT:A:SecurityTemplates
•DF:x: – (Optional) Defines a device filename when saving. Only 1 DF definition per device is allowed
e.g. DF:A:Primary Router Filename
•DA:x: – (Optional) Specifies the produced output will be appended to any existing found file. Only 1 DA definition per device is allowed
e.g. DA:A:Append
•DR:x: – (Optional) Specifies the produced output, does not include any additional Gen IT information. Only 1 DN definition per device is allowed
e.g. DR:A:
•DL:x: – (Optional) Specifies the produced output will use LFs instead of CRLFs. Only 1 DL definition per device is allowed
e.g. DL:A:
•DE:x: – (Optional) Specifies the produced text output encoding scheme. Only 1 DE definition per device is allowed
e.g. DE:A:
The 'x', typically a number or letter, is used to link the various parts of the device definitions together. In the example below, the 'A' links the files together.
•DN:A:Core Router
•DT:A:Security Template
•DT:A:Base Template
•DT:A:L3 Template
•DF:A:Filename
•DA:A:Append
•DR:A:RAW Output
•DR:A:LineFeed
•DE:A:Encoding
Devices must be added to spreadsheets named ‘Device-‘. Data added to spreadsheets named otherwise will be ignored by Gen IT.
Important – All ‘Data-‘ sheets and ‘Device-‘ sheets must contain the same amount of data rows, and must include identical ‘ID‘ columns/rows in order to join the data from all sheets into a single dataset.