Specifications

Overview
Ridgeline Service Advisor Release Note4
Windows platforms, as well as the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the supported Red Hat Enterprise
Linux platform.
● Map view of all devices in your network. The new All Map option under Network Views displays
a graphical view of all of the devices managed by Ridgeline SA. From the All Map view, you can see
a map view, navigation table, and details panel containing information about all the managed
devices in your network.
● Customizable Ridgeline SA Home Page. You can select which reports populate the Ridgeline SA
Home Page, allowing you to display a convenient, dashboard-like view of data relevant to your
network.
● Point-and-click network provisioning. Ridgeline SA’s new provisioning features simplify network
configuration tasks with selectable options in dialog boxes. Ridgeline SA automatically validates the
options you’ve selected prior to deploying the configuration to managed devices, ensuring that the
configuration is correct before it goes into production.
● VLAN and VMAN (PB/Q-in-Q) provisioning. Using the Ridgeline SA provisioning interface, you
can create a VLAN or VMAN simply by selecting the devices, ports, and tagging options you want,
then validate and deploy the VLAN or VMAN configuration with a single mouse click.
VLAN provisioning is supported on Extreme switches running ExtremeXOS 11.6 and higher, and
ExtremeWare 7.7 and higher. VMAN provisioning is supported on Extreme switches running
ExtremeXOS 12.1 and higher.
● Job Scheduler. You can use the new Job Scheduler feature to execute Ridgeline SA functions on
specified devices at specified times. Ridgeline SA scripts can now be configured as script tasks, which
can run automatically at designated times.
● VPLS discovery and visualization. With the Advanced Services Pack, Ridgeline SA can discover the
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) configuration on the managed devices in your network, and
display an overlay view of selected VPLS instances, including information about specific pseudo
wires. Ridgeline SA scripts can create VPLS instances and configure devices as VPLS peers.
VPLS is supported on Extreme switches running ExtremeXOS 12.4 and higher.
● PBB discovery, visualization, and provisioning. With the Advanced Services Pack, Ridgeline SA
identifies the Service VLANs (SVLANs), Backbone VLANs (BVLANs), Customer VLANs (CVLANs),
and Extended Service ID (ISID) instances in your Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) networks. You can
display an overlay view of a selected PBB network, along with detailed information about PBB
components in Ridgeline SA tables. Ridgeline SA’s PBB provisioning feature allows you to create
BVLANs on selected devices, ports, or links, as well as modify and delete existing BVLANs.
PBB is supported on BlackDiamond 20800 series switches running ExtremeXOS 12.4 and higher.
● Ethernet service provisioning. Using the service provisioning wizard, you can create E-Line (point-
to-point) and E-LAN (multipoint-to-multipoint) services. You can select the devices and ports that
make up the service, specify the transport method (VLAN, VMAN, or PBB), create and apply
bandwidth profiles, then validate the configuration and deploy it on your network.
The Services view provides at-a-glance information about Ethernet services, the devices and ports
where they are configured, and details about the transport method specified for each service.
Device support for E-Line and E-LAN services depends on the transport method used with the
service:
● VLAN: ExtremeXOS 11.6 and higher; ExtremeWare 7.7 and higher.
● VMAN: ExtremeXOS 12.1 and higher.
● PBB: ExtremeXOS 12.4 and higher.