Creating a symbolic link to a moved folder

This is an example of how SMAT/SMAT database can load files under a process folder that is a symbolic link.

The symbolic link points to a folder outside of hciroot.

  1. In the Site Init tool, create a new site named symbolicprocess.
  2. Move the processes folder in C:\cloverleaf\cis6.2\integrator\symbolicprocess\exec to C:\ testprocesses (outside of %HCIROOT).
  3. Create a symbolic link using the command line to point to the moved folder.
    Windows: mklink /D C:\cloverleaf\cis6.2\integrator\symbolicprocess\exec\processes C:\testprocesses \processes
    Linux: ln -s /opt/testprocesses/processes/opt/cloverleaf/cis6.1/integrator/symbolicprocess/exec/processes
  4. Open the IDE and change to the symbolicprocess site.
    The smatdb files in the processes folder are shown in the SMAT Database File List pane. The smatdb files can also be opened in Network Monitor.