Importing / Exporting Variants
Signaling Variants can be both imported to and exported from the IMG 2020. Exporting a variant allows other IMG 2020's, that do not have the variant, the ability to then import the variant. When exporting a Variant, the variant is first created and downloaded to the system. Once downloaded, it can then be exported to a local drive. The file exported is a text file and a .cfg file which can then be imported by other IMG 2020's. Importing and Exporting a variant is achieved through the Web GUI. The information below describes how to import or export a variant and is not specific to the protocol described in the procedure. The steps described below can be used when importing any protocol.
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Create a directory on your local PC and copy and paste the Signaling Variant file (.cfg) and text file to the directory created. The directory should be created on the same PC that will be running the browser connecting the Web GUI to the IMG 2020.
Right click on the Dialogic object in the Web GUI and select New Files. The Files object is a parent or container object and no configuration is needed here. Refer to the Files topic for more information on this object.
Right click on the Files object just created and select New File. In the File object click on the browse icon. This will allow the user to browse the local PC. Navigate to the directory created above and select the .cfg file. In this example, the British Telecom variant is being imported and the BT_IAMmct.cfg file was selected.
Once the Files object is committed, it will be displayed in the configuration tree and display the file that was imported. See screen capture below.
Right click on the Dialogic object and select New Signaling Variants. The Signaling Variants object is a container object and no configuration is needed here. Refer to the Signaling Variants topic for more information.
Right click on the Signaling Variants object and select New Variant Table. In the Variant Name field enter the exact name of the variant without the extension. If the exact name is not entered, the variant will import but will not function. In this example, the variant was entered as BritishTelecom.
Select the Variant Type from the drop down menu. If you do not know the variant type, it can be accessed by viewing the text file that was copied to the directory on your local PC.
Select the Variant Base from the drop down menu. If you do not know the variant base, it can be accessed by viewing the text file that was copied to the directory on your local PC. The text file imported is displayed in highlighted gray below.
Below is screen capture of a few lines from the file imported. All the information needed to configure the fields in the Variant Table above are displayed in this file. Pay attention to the "PplBase" property value.
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Right click on the Variant Table object just created and select Import. An Upload File dialog box will appear. Click on the Browse button again and browse to the text file that was copied into the directory on your local PC. Select the file and it will appear into the Upload File dialog box.
Click on the Upload button from the Upload dialog box and the new variant will get configured on the IMG 2020. The New imported variant will now be displayed under the Variant Table object created earlier. See screen capture below.
Creating a Variant using Web GUI
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