User guide

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UMMARY OF
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EATURES
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NTERPRISE
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WIDE
VLAN M
ANAGEMENT
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 Enterprise Manager VLAN Manager is an enterprise-wide application
that manages many aspects of VLANs on Extreme Network’s Summit devices. Any
Enterprise Manager user can view status information about the switches currently
known to Enterprise Manager. Users with Manager-level access can create and delete
VLANs, add or remove ports from existing VLANs, and create and modify the protocol
filters used to filter VLAN traffic.
S
UPPORT FOR
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UMMIT
V
IRTUAL
C
HASSIS
S
TACKS
The Summit
™
Virtual Chassis
™
is a high performance, low cost external backplane that
connects up to eight stacked or distributed Summit switches into one cohesive system.
A Virtual Chassis (VC) stack is a configuration of one to four Summit Virtual Chassis
and up to eight connected Summit switches.
The Virtual Chassis Stack Manager of the ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager identifies
and manages virtual stack configurations, including configuration of the Gigabit
Ethernet ports on Summit switches. Any Enterprise Manager user can view the VC
stack configuration topology and the details about individual components. Users with
Manager-level access can create, modify, and delete Virtual Chassis stack topology
representations in the Enterprise Manager database, configure switch ports, and invoke
a stack rediscovery.
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UPPORT FOR
P
OLICY
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BASED
Q
UALITY OF
S
ERVICE
(Q
O
S)
QoS is a feature of Summit switches that allows specification of different service levels
for outbound traffic. Using QoS, you can specify the service that a traffic type receives.
The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager ‘s Quality of Service Manager lets you create,
modify and delete custom QoS profiles that are available to all Summit switches known
to the Enterprise Manager database. These profiles can be applied as QoS policy for any
VLAN defined within the Enterprise Manager.
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IMPLE
I
NVENTORY
M
ANAGEMENT
The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager’s Inventory Manager applet keeps a database of
all the Summit switches managed by the Enterprise Manager. Any Enterprise Manager