User guide

ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 1-7
Summary of Features
can also be accessed from the EPICenter Navigation toolbar. A Summary Report is also
displayed on the main EPICenter “home” page that provides basic information on the
status of EPICenter devices and alarms. From this report you can access other more
detailed reports.
TheEPICenterreportsareHTMLpages thatdo notrequireJava capability,and thuscanbe
accessedfrombrowsersthatdonothavetheabilitytorunthefullEPICenteruserinterface.
This means reports can be loaded quickly, even over a dial-up connection, and it also
provides the ability to print the reports.
The Reports capability provides a number of predefined HTML reports that present
information fromtheEPICenterdatabase.You canalso createyourownreportsby writing
Tcl sc ripts.
Scalable Mode
As the number of devices in your network increases, the effort required on the part of the
EPICenter server to monitor all those devices increases. At some point, EPICenter
performance may become undesirably slow. For a network with a very large number of
devices, therefore, you can run the EPICenter server in “scalable mode.” This lets you
manage a very large number of devices (on theorder of 2000devices)at the expense of the
availability of some of the EPICenter applets, and the ability to manage to the port level.
The following applets are not available in Scalable Mode.
• ExtremeView
• Real-Time Statistics
• Topology
• VLAN Manager
• ESRP Manager
• Policy Manager (an optional, separately-licensed module)
Scalable Mode is implemented through a single property setting in the EPICenter
Administrationmodule.
Security Management
In orderto access EPICenter features, a user must log inwith a user nameand a password.
EPICenter provides three access levels: