User guide

ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 1-3
Summary of Features
system furthermaximizenetworkmonitoringcapability whilemaintainingnetwork usage
efficiency.
You can organize your network resources into groups (including groups made up of
selected ports from multiple switches) that you can manage as a single entity. You can set
VLANconfigurationsacross thenetworkwithouthavingtolog intoswitchesindividually.
You cansearch forindividualIPaddressesand identify theirconnectionsintothe network.
You can monitor the status of your networkdevices either visually, through the
ExtremeView applet, or by setting alarms that will notify you about conditions or events
on your network devices. You can get a high-level overview of the status of your network
devices displayed as a hierarchical topology map.
These features and more are described in more detail in the following sections, and in the
remaining chapters of this manual.
Simple Inventory Management
EPICenter’s Inventory Manager appletkeeps a database of all the devices managed bythe
EPICenter software. Any EPICenter user can view status information about the switches
currently knownto the EPICenter database.
The EPICenter Inventory Management applet provides an automatic discovery function.
Userswiththeappropriate accesscanuse this featuretodiscoverExtremeandotherMIB-2
devices by specific IP address or within a range of IP addresses.
Network devices can also be added to the EPICenter database manually, using the
Inventory Manager Add function. Once a network device is known to the EPICenter
database, you can assign it to a specific device group, and configure it using the VLAN
Manager, the Configuration Manager, or the ExtremeView tool.
The Alarm System
TheEPICenterAlarmSystemprovidesfaultdetectionandalarm handlingforthenetwork
devicesmonitoredbytheEPICentersoftware.ThisincludesExtremedevicesandsome
third-party devices—those that the EPICenter software can include in its Inventory
database. The Alarm System also lets you define your own alarms that will report errors
under conditionsyou specify,such asrepeated occurrences or exceeding threshold values.
Youcanspecify theactionsthat shouldbe takenwhenanalarmoccurs,andyoucanenable
and disable individual alarms.
Fault detection is based on SNMP traps, RMON traps, and some limited polling. The
Alarm System supports SNMP MIB-2 and the Extreme Networks private MIB. When an