RingMaster Management Guide - Juniper Networks

Opening a Plan
Network plans reside on a system running RingMaster Services. You can open an existing network
plan by connecting to the RingMaster Services host where the plan resides, selecting Services >
Plan Management, then specifying the name of plan in the Switch Plan page. The network plan is
then opened in the RingMaster main window.
You can open a network plan created in a previous version of RingMaster with a later version of
RingMaster. For example, if you created a network plan in RingMaster 5.0, you can open the plan in
RingMaster . However, because a network plan created in RingMaster 5.0 manages MXs running
MSS 5.0, you cannot use new features available in MSS 7.0 unless you upgrade the MXs to MSS 7.0.
(To upgrade MXs, see “Distributing System Images” in the publication RingMaster Management
Guide.)
To open a network plan:
1. Establish a connection to the RingMaster Services host on which the network plan is saved.
You can do this by restarting RingMaster or selecting File > Connect, and then entering the
IP address of the RingMaster Services host in the RingMaster Services Connection
dialog box.
2. After a connection is established with the RingMaster Services host, select Services > Plan
Management to access the RingMaster Plan Management page.
3. Click Switch Plan in the left column to display a list of available network plans.
4. Select the network plan you want to open and click Switch. If any changes were made to the
currently loaded network plan, you are prompted to save them and close the file. The Switch
Network Plan dialog box appears. RingMaster establishes a new connection to the host
running RingMaster Services and loads the specified network plan.
Importing a Plan
You can import objects from another network plan into the currently open plan. When you import
objects from another plan, objects are added to the currently open plan as follows:
❑ If an object (object name) exists in the plan you are importing but not in the open plan, the object
is added to the open plan. If an object (object name) exists in both plans, the copy of the object
in the imported plan replaces the object in the open plan.
If both plans have the same floor name, the floor in the plan you are importing completely replaces
the floor of the same name in the other plan. You should save a backup copy of the plan before
importing objects from another plan. To save a backup copy, use the Save As page.
To import a plan:
1. Select Services > Plan Management to access the RingMaster Plan Management page.
2. Click Import Plan in the left column to display the Import Plan page.
3. Select the network plan you want to import, from the Plan pull-down list. RingMaster
compares object names in a plan to be imported with object names in the open plan. If both
plans have objects of the same name and type, the objects are listed and Conflict appears in
the Status column.
4. Do one of the following, depending on whether you want to import all objects from the plan:
a. If you do not want to replace the objects in the open plan with their like-named
objects in the other plan, click Cancel. RingMaster does not import any objects from
the plan.
b. If you do want to replace the objects, click Import. RingMaster imports the objects
into the open plan.
Closing a Plan
You can close a network plan at any time. If you have unsaved changes, you are asked whether you
want to save the changes.
To close a network plan:
208 Working with Network Plans Copyright © 2011, Juniper Networks, Inc.