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Summit WM Maintenance Guide, Software Version 5.3 7
About this Guide
The purpose of this guide is to assist you in performing the maintenance of the following hardware and
software components of the Extreme Networks
®
Summit
®
WM Wireless LAN (WLAN) Solution:
Hardware
● Summit WM Controller
● Altitude
™
Access Point (AP)
Software
● Summit WM Software
Who should use this guide
This guide is intended for personnel, who are responsible for maintaining the Summit WM WLAN
Solution.
What is in this guide
The contents in this guide are organized under the following chapters:
● “About this Guide”– Describes the purpose, the target audience and the architecture of this guide.
● Chapter 1, “Backing up the existing image” — Describes how to back up the existing software image
before performing the upgrades.
● Chapter 2, “Upgrading the Summit WM Software to V5R3 release”— Describes how to upgrade the
Summit WM Software from various past releases to V5R3 release on various platforms.
● Chapter 3, “Upgrading the Summit WM Controller from V5R3 to V5R3 General Patch (GP)”—
Describes how to upgrade the Summit WM Software from V5R3 to V5R3 GP release.
● Chapter 4, “Restoring the backed-up image”— Describes how to restore the previously backed-up
image from V5R3 on various platforms.
● Chapter 5, “Using the Console Port”— Describes how to connect to the Summit WM Controller’s
console port to access the Rescue mode.
● Chapter 6, “Performing system maintenance”— Describes how to perform the following system
maintenance tasks: Changing the log level, setting a poll interval for checking the status of the
Altitude APs (Health Checking), enabling and defining parameters for Syslog event reporting,
forcing an immediate system shutdown with, or without reboot, and resetting the Summit WM
Controller to its factory defaults
● Chapter 7, “Logs, traces, audits, and DHCP messages”— Describes how to view and interpret the
logs, traces, audits and DHCP messages.
● Chapter 8, “Summit WM Controller’s utilities”— Describes how to configure the Summit WM
Controller’s utilities.