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Hi there  -  here’s a great tip for CiscoWorks Campus Manger administrators and users.

Suppose you have a lot of network devices and you spent hours on moving all those little icons on your Topology Map.

Maybe you added all your important  devices (Core and Distribution for Data Centre) to the critical device poller; and maybe you even added a nice background wallpaper showing them geographically  – nice.

And then you get a call from another network administrator or user,  saying his map doesn’t look like the one you created. Well, that’s how LMS Campus Manager works. Every user account has its own map and settings.

BUT,  you copy your map to his account like this:

the admin user's Topology maps

For LMS running on Windows, simply go to the Campus maps folder and find the right map to copy.  Suppose you created our mapas the “admin” user, the goto:  “C:\Program Files\CSCOpx\campus\etc\users\admin”. Now it might take some investigating which xml file is the right one.  In this example the file was called  ” 453.xml ”

Now copy that file to the other users folder. If  the user account was “george” then C:\Program Files\CSCOpx\campus\etc\users\george is where maps are located for george.  (Oh, yes. Remember that the user must at least save one map for the folder to exists)

Easy hey?.  If your running on solaris , you might consider running a crontab job to copy your map to other users on a scheduled time/date, depending on the users.

Cheers.