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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 21, 2022

Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairings. The CSM GUI option is not an optimal method, as it should be, based on the fact that the operation to use the GUI to build copyset pairs is single threaded. Additional to that, each LSS pairing has to be validated taking you all the way back to the beginning of the copyset build to continue on with the next LSS pairing. This is probably not an issue for small frames going to 1 place, however, we are building large environment with 40-50 LSSs in a 4-Site environment - this becomes extreme and is the reason we option on building copyset scripts manually in excel. Would it be possible to expand the copyset configuration window to include all Hosts across the configurator, based on the initial session setup and include drop downs for LSS (with selection tic-box) - possibly acknowledging that all devices in the LSS will be paired 1-for-1 across? I have attached a document that is really just 1 idea of probably many, the point being, we should be able to map all LSSs being mapped in a copyset pairing and then proceed to matching, results and implementation.
Idea priority Medium