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User account authentication uses MD5 security over the network, an authentication
algorithm that operates over the entire data packet.
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ExtremeWare Vista is device-management software running in a Summit switch that
allows a user to access the switch over a TCP/IP network, using a standard Web
browser. ExtremeWare Vista provides the most commonly used of the command-line
interface (CLI) capabilities available for configuring and monitoring a Summit switch.
To perform individual switch configuration tasks not available from the ExtremeWare
Enterprise Manager application, the Enterprise Manager provides the ability to launch
ExtremeWare Vista from the Inventory Manager or from the Virtual Chassis Stack
Manager. This launches an additional browser window that displays the ExtremeWare
Vista login page. A user must have login access to the switch in order to run
ExtremeWare Vista.
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The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager software is made up of three major functional
components:
• The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager Server, based on the Sun Java Web Server. The
server is responsible for downloading applets, running servlets, managing security,
and communicating with the database.
• A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), Sybase SQL Anywhere, used
as both a persistent data store and a data cache.
• The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager client applications, which are Java applets that
are downloaded from the server to a client machine on request, and executed in a
Java-enabled web browser that supports Java 1.1.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the architecture of the ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager software.