User guide

1-8 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
EPICenter Overview
• Monitor—users who can view status information only.
• Manager—userswhocanmodifydeviceparametersaswellasviewstatusinformation.
• Administrator—users who can create, modify and delete EPICenter user accounts as
well as perform all the functions of a user with Manager access.
The EPICenter Admin applet enables configuration of EPICenter as a Remote
Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server. As an alternative, it can be
configured as a RADIUS client, or RADIUS authentication functionality can be disabled.
When EPICenter acts as a RADIUS server, it can be contacted by RADIUS clients (such as
Extreme Networks switches) to configure access permissions for Extreme switches, and to
authenticateusernamesandpasswords.The use oftheRADIUSserver avoids theneedto
maintain user names, passwords, and access permissions in each switch, and instead
centralizes the configuration in one location in EPICenter.
EPICenter Stand-alone Utilities
TheEPICentersoftware providesseveralstand-alone utilities or scripts thatstreamlinethe
process of getting information into and out of the EPICenter database, or facilitate certain
device troubleshooting functions. These are the following:
• The DevCLI utility lets you add devices to and remove devices from the EPICenter
inventorydatabaseviacommand,andsupportsbatchadditionsanddeletionsspecified
via a file.
• A set of Inventory Export scripts that enable you to export information from the
EPICenter database about the devices that are being managed. The information is
provided in a format suitable for import into other applications, such asa spreadsheet.
• TheSNMPCLI utilityprovides SNMPGet,GetNext,andSNMP walkfeatures thatmay
be needed to obtain device MIB information for troubleshooting.
EPICenter Components
The EPICenter software is made up of three major functional components:
• The EPICenter Server, which is based on the Tomcat Java server. The server is
responsible for downloading applets, running servlets, managing security, and
communicating with the database.