General

For the assignment of objects to segments there are 3 principle ways implemented:

▪Initial Assignment

Assignment Change Modes:

▪Manual Assignment Change

▪Automatic Assignment Change

Initial Assignment

On creation of an object an initial assignment to segments takes place derived from the respective reference object

Manual Assignment Change

The Network Segment Administrator can assign segments manually to certain objects. He can do that per individual object but also gets support by the system to apply ‘half-automatically’ segment propagation as bulk operations

Automatic Assignment Change

The segment assignment of certain objects is done by the system automatically if the segment assignment of defined reference objects will change. In order to ensure data consistency the Network Segment Administrator cannot change this manually

Object

Single

Object

Group

Object

Initial Assignment

from

Reference Object

Assignment Change Mode

Automatic Assignment
from

Reference Object

Location System

ü

User

Manual

Location

ü

Location System

Manual

Component

ü

Locations

Manual

Transportcontainer

ü

Locations

Automatic

Locations
Cards

Location Group

ü

User

Automatic

Locations

Cableline

ü

User

Automatic

Cables

Ductline

ü

User

Automatic

Ducts

Physical Path

ü

Components

Automatic

Components

Project

ü

User

Manual

Workorder

ü

User

Automatic

Content

Electrical Circuit

ü

Location

Automatic

Content

STM/Ethernet Ring

ü

User

Automatic

Content

MPLS

ü

User

Automatic

Content

VPLS

ü

User

Automatic

Content

IP Pool

ü

-

Manual

IP Subnet

ü

IP Pool

Manual

VLAN Network

ü

-

Manual

VLAN

ü

VLAN Network

Manual

Single Object

•A network object can be part of a network segment

•Network objects have their own network segment assignment

•Depending on the current users network segment membership, it will be visible to the user or not

•They may have a property “Segmentation” of possible values Local, Distributed and External
 

Group Object

Group objects are collections of different single objects. They have the segmentation values of all their objects.

Initial assignment from Reference Object
 

Describes the origin of the initial assignment of the object.
 

Automatic assignment from Reference Object
 

Describes the origin of the automatic assignment of the object.
 

Objects not yet implemented for network segmentation

The amount of implemented functions for Network Segmentation is dependent to the requirements and priorities from the network documentation practice and is subject to future development. The implementation of Network Segmentation therefore covers the main areas of ConnectMaster® but without claiming a theoretically 100% approach of all details and special cases.
 

The following Network-Inventory Objects / Functionality Areas are currently not part of Network Segmentation functionality. This means, that by using the listed objects and functions the segmentation cannot be checked. Therefore the visibility/editability cannot be checked by the system and therefore is possible for users of all segments.