---
title: Defining Configuration Specific to a Traffic Manager Instance
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/cfgimport/defining-configuration-specific-to-a-traffic-manager-instance
docTags: 
createdAt: 2026-08-02T08:46:48.908Z
---

Configuration documents can include configuration specific to individual Traffic Managers through the "traffic\_managers" section. Each named object in this section refers to the hostname of a Traffic Manager instance in the cluster. Such configuration can include, for example, networking or other system level settings.

To Identify the local Traffic Manager on which you run the import, without naming it explicitly, use the special object name "local\_tm". This feature is useful for orchestration platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes where you might not know the instance hostname at the point you construct the configuration document. For example:

```bash
version: 6.1

traffic_managers:
- name: local_tm
  properties:
snmp:
community: body
enabled: true
security_level: noauthnopriv
```