User guide

1-6 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
EPICenter Overview
hierarchical system of campuses, buildings, floors, closets,or whatever logical groupings
you want.
TheTopologyappletcanautomaticallyadddevicenodestoyourmapasdevicesareadded
to EPICenter software’s device inventory. The EPICenter software will also add links that
exist between the devices, and organize them into submaps as appropriate. You can
customize the resulting maps by moving elements, adding new elements, such as links,
“decorative” (non-managed) nodes, and text, and customizing the discovered nodes
themselves.
Finally, from a managed device node on the map, you can invoke other EPICenter
functions such as the alarm browser, telnet, real-time statistics, a front panel view, or
ExtremeWare Vista for the selected device.
Enterprise-wide VLAN Management
A virtual LAN (VLAN) is a group of location- and topology-independent devices that
communicate as if they were on the same physical local area network (LAN).
The ExtremeWare EPICenter VLAN Manager is an enterprise-wide application that
manages many aspects of VLANs on Extreme Network’s Summit and BlackDiamond
switches. Any EPICenter user can view status information about the VLANs currently
known to EPICenter. Users with the appropriate access can create and delete VLANs, add
andremoveports from existingVLANs,andcreate and modifytheprotocolfilters usedto
filter VLAN traffic.
The ESRP Manager
The Extreme Standby Router Protocol (ESRP) is a feature of ExtremeWare that allows
multiple switches to provide redundant layer 3 routing services, as well as layer 2
redundancy, tousers. The ESRPManager displays the statusof ESRP-enabledVLANsand
the ESRP-enabled switches in those VLANs. You can view a summary status for all the
ESRP-enabled VLANs being monitored by the EPICenter software. You can also view
detailed information for an individual ESRP-enabled VLAN and the switches in those
VLANs.
Dynamic Reports
EPICenter Reports are HTML pages that can be accessed separately from the main
EPICenteruserinterface,withoutloggingintotheJavauserinterface.TheReportsmodule