Merging Service Profiles

Users may benefit from having phone books and other features merged from existing service profiles. Users may need different Internet access points that are, in turn, covered by more than one of your phone books.

You can merge service profiles to add existing customizations to the profile you’re building. When you use the wizard to merge features, the resulting service profile includes references to the existing service profiles.

For example, if users select a POP from a service profile that merges phone books from two other service profiles, the users see a single phone book rather than three. When you use the wizard to merge phone books, the resulting service profile installs multiple files in Connection Manager’s folder rather than combining the phone books into a single file.

Each time the user establishes a connection, Connection Manager automatically checks with each server running Phone Book Service for each phone book. The Phone Book Service software checks the user’s phone book version and, if necessary, downloads phone book updates.

Note

If duplicate regions and service types exist among service profiles, Connection Manager removes duplicates when running the resulting service profile. You cannot merge connect actions from another service profile. Nor can you merge features among service profiles that, in turn, merge features from other existing service profiles. The resulting service profile omits any such references.

What You Can Customize in Merging Service Profiles

With the wizard you can:

For more information on how the wizard merges features into the resulting service profile, see the table that follows. For more information on using the wizard to merge features, see “Merging Service Profiles.”

Example of how features are merged if service profile 2 is merged into service profile 1

Service profile 1 Service profile 2 Resulting service profile
Phone books
Service type (for example, Modem and ISDN) Service type a
Service type b
Service type c
Service type z		 Service type x
Service type y
Service type z		 Service type a
Service type b
Service type c
Service type x
Service type y
Service type z
POP names (for example, states and regions) POP a
POP b
POP c
POP z		 POP x
POP y
POP z		 POP a
POP b
POP c
POP x
POP y
POP z
Access numbers Access number a
Access number b
Access number c		 Access number x
Access number y
Access number z		 Access number a
Access number b
Access number c
Access number x
Access number y
Access number z
Features
Dial-Up Networking settings Settings a Settings x For POP a in service profile 1, settings a are used. For POP x in service profile 2, settings x are used.

If there are no Dial-Up Networking settings for service profile 1, its POPs use the default Dial-Up connection settings. If there are no Dial-Up Networking settings for service profile 2, its POPs use the default Dial-Up connection settings.

If there are no Dial-Up Networking settings for either service profile, the resulting service profile uses settings for the last Dial-Up connection added.
Phone book updates Automatic downloading of phone book updates Automatic downloading of phone book updates Automatic downloading of phone book updates.
Connection Point servers Connection Point server \\SERVER1 Connection Point server \\SERVER2 \\SERVER1 and \\SERVER2

If a Connection Point server name is specified when building the resulting service profile, that server name is used in addition.
Realm name Realm name a Realm name x If a realm name is specified for the resulting service profile, only that realm name is used.

If a realm name is not specified for the resulting service profile, for POP a, realm name a is used. For POP x, realm name x is used.
Secure connection settings Settings a Settings x If settings are specified for the resulting service profile, only those settings are used.
POP a requiring secure connection POP x requiring secure connection Secure connection for POP a and POP x is allowed.

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