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Making the Relationship Information Available to NerveCenter

If you created a text file with the relationship information -- either manually or by using OVPA -- you must load that information into NerveCenter.

 
  To load relationship information into NerveCenter:

1. In the NerveCenter Client, create an alarm that you can transition on demand. On the transition, call a Perl subroutine that includes the following function:
       NC::LoadParentsFromFile(FileName);

   where FileName is the name of the file you created.

2. Transition the alarm. After the alarm transitions, you can turn the alarm off.

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   Caution    If you modify the file, you must repeat this procedure.

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To make sure the contents of the file were read correctly, you can create another alarm with a Perl subroutine that includes the following function:

The information will be written to the file on the local machine.

To remove relationship information, you can create an alarm with a Perl subroutine that includes the following function: