Objectives for Adding a New Printer Class

This exercise describes how to use Dynamic Model to add a new printer class without attributes or other properties to the following:
  • Global Manager
    This exercise also demonstrates how new instances can be classified in the new class, and then discovered. Instances of the new class will be discovered automatically, based on the device’s MIB object ID (OID) when the
    is started.
    This exercise should be performed on test versions of a
    ,
    ,
    ,
    , and
    Global Manager
    . Before starting this exercise, back up the repository on the test
    s.
    This exercise includes the following tasks:
  • Create and compile a dynamic model file.
  • Add a new printer class to the models in a
    ,
    ,
    , and
    Global Manager
    .
  • View the new printer class by using the
    Global Console
    .
  • Set up the printer OID for discovery.
  • Reload the dynamic model file into the
    ,
    , and
    .
  • Set up topology sources for the
    , and the
    .
  • Discover instances of the new class by using the
    .
  • Add the new printer class into the
    Global Manager
    model.