Avocent DSView - Exporting Unit Rights

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To export units:
1. From the Units Tools window, click the Export Units icon or link. The Export Units Wizard
will appear. Click Next.
2. The Select Unit Properties to Export window will open.
3. Specify the properties you wish to export:
a. Select the properties in the Available Properties list. Multiple properties may be selected
by pressing
Ctrl or Shift while clicking on the property names.
b. Click Add. The properties will be moved to the Properties to Export list.
To remove selected properties, select the property you wish to remove from the Properties
to Export list (multiple properties may be selected by pressing
Ctrl while clicking on the
property names) and clicking Remove. The properties will be moved to the Available
Properties list.
c. To change the order in which properties are listed in the output .csv file, select the
properties in the Properties to Export list and use the up and down arrows to move the
selected properties up or down in the listing. Multiple properties may be selected by
pressing
Ctrl or Shift while clicking on the property names.
d. Click Next.
4. The Save Process window will open. Click Next.
5. The Completed Successful window will open, along with a File Download dialog box.
Click Open. The file will download and open. By default, .csv files are configured to open in
Microsoft Excel. If Microsoft Excel is not installed on your computer, you will be prompted to
select a text editor to use for opening the .csv file.
NOTE: The default filename of the .csv file is unitproperties.csv. Subsequent files that you export will be
incremented (unitproperties[1].csv, unitproperties[2].csv and so on).
-or-
Click Save. The Save As dialog box will appear. Select a directory and filename and click Save
to save the .csv file.
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Click Cancel to cancel the action.
6. Click Finish. The Units Tools window will open.
Exporting unit rights
The Export Unit Rights tool will export permission information about units from the DSView
management software host. Managed appliance information will be exported into a .csv file with
the default name appliance_rights.csv. Target device information will be exported into a .csv file
with the default name target_device_rights.csv. You may change the names of the files when they
are saved.
The following information will be exported for managed appliances: