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Overview Provisioning the iMG/RG (Application Manager)
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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide (Provisioning the iMG/RG)
7.8 Provisioning the iMG/RG (Application Manager)
7.8.1 Overview
Caution: If AlliedView NMS users are accessing applications via an IP route that includes Network
Address Translation (NAT), certain AlliedView NMS modules may not work correctly as the
server may send information to the clients over different ports than those initiated by the
clients. Users should therefore set up a FE on the back side of the NAT or remove the NAT
process to prevent this.
As described in 5.3, the Provisioning Application for Allied Telesis devices allows the administrator to control software
related tasks (backup/restore, command scripting, SNMP, file management, etc.).This same provisioning GUI can be used
for the iMGs/RGs as follows:
• The tasks available are Device Backup/Restore, Device Configuration, and Software Configuration
• The GUI has a device type selection button, NETWORK and CPE, that allows the administrator to choose one type of
device or another. This allows the administrator to focus on only one type of device at a time, an important capability
since there may be thousands of iMG/RGs and a much smaller number of Allied Telesis devices.
The way to access the Application Manager is unchanged
• Right-click on a device (as an icon or table row), and select Provision -> (Provisioning Task).
• From the main menu, select Tools -> Application Manager.
The following figure shows the result when the user selects Tools -> Application Manager.
FIGURE 7-99 Application Manager GUI for CPE (iMG/RG)
Note that the user can select the CPE button and only the tasks available are highlighted; the others are grayed out. (The oth-
ers would be available if the user had chosen NETWORK.)
The options available are similar to those for network devices. The user can double-click on one of the Applications in the
table (or select the application, and then click GO) and it will invoke the specific application window.
If the user clicks Add/Remove Devices, which is at the bottom of every application window, the set of (CPE) devices that
are to be included in the application can be controlled, as shown in the following figure. Refer to 5.3.1 for details on using
the buttons and options.