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Using Interactive Telnet with Third-Party Devices
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Using Interactive Telnet with Third-Party Devices
You can open an interactive Telnet session on a third-party device and execute commands interactively.
Select the switch from the Telnet device list in the Component Tree. This opens a Telnet session to the
selected switch, and waits for input as appropriate to the device’s telnet interface. Unlike Telnet to an
Extreme Networks switch, it does not log you in to the device. You must log in as required for the
device.
You can enter and execute commands using the device’s command line interface. The commands and
any resulting output will be displayed in the session window just as if you were running a Telnet
session on any other client.
The Telnet session window is a two-tone window—the bottom of the window is white, the top is grey.
The last 25 lines of Telnet commands and responses always appear in the white portion of the window.
As output grows, the older lines scroll up into the grey portion of the screen. This makes it easy to tell
whether you are viewing the most recent Telnet output.
To close the Telnet session, type the appropriate exit command on the command line. The session will
be closed automatically when you exit the Telnet applet.
Viewing Device Information from Pop-up Menus
You can select a device group or a device in the Component Tree, then right-click to display a pop-up
menu that contains the Properties command. The Properties command displays the attributes for a
specific device group or device. The device pop-up menu also contains the Alarms, Browse, EView,
Statistics, Sync, and VLANs commands. All of these commands perform the same functions as the
applets in the Navigation Toolbar to the left of the page, but with the appropriate device displayed.
Properties
The Properties function lets you view the attributes for a device group or a device.
To view the Properties display for all device groups:
• Right-click on the Device Groups component, then select Properties from the pop-up menu that
appears
The Device Groups Properties window appears and displays the number of device groups and the
names of the device groups that are known to EPICenter.
To view the Properties display for a selected device group:
• Right-click on the device group, then select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears
The Device Group Properties window appears and displays the attributes for the selected device group.
To view the Properties display for a selected device:
• Right-click on the device, then select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears
The Device Properties window appears and displays the attributes for the selected device.
See “Displaying Properties” on page 202 for details on using this feature.