Extreme Networks EPICenter 4.1, Software Installation Manual

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72 EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
Starting EPICenter
The EPICenter Client
On Windows 2000 or Windows XP systems, the EPICenter software provides two options for connecting
to an EPICenter server from a client system:
• A stand-alone client application. This is the recommended client option.
• A browser-based client you can run from Microsoft Internet Explorer.
On Solaris-based systems, only the stand-alone client is supported.
The stand-alone client is installed along with the EPICenter server on the system where the server
resides. The stand-alone client can also be installed by itself on any system you want to use as an
EPICenter client. See Chapter 2 for instructions on installing the client on a system without the
EPICenter server.
For Windows 2000 or Windows XP, the browser-based client is a Java applet that is downloaded from
the EPICenter server whenever you run it, and requires the following software on the client:
• Internet Explorer 5.0, or Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 1, and the Java 1.3.1_03 plug-in.
Running the EPICenter Stand-alone Client
To start the EPICenter stand-alone client interface on a system different from where the EPICenter
server is installed:
1 From the Start menu, highlight Programs, then Extreme Networks, followed by EPICenter 4.1
Client
to display the EPICenter Client menu.
2 Select Client Application to start the EPICenter client.
An MS-DOS window appears briefly before the EPICenter Client Login window opens, as shown in
Figure 9.
To run the stand-alone client on the same system as the EPICenter server:
1 From the Start menu, highlight Programs, then Extreme Networks, followed by EPICenter 4.1 to
display the EPICenter menu.
2 Select EPICenter 4.1 Client to start the EPICenter client.
If you need to start the client manually, you can use the
runclient
command in an MSDOS command
window to start the server:
1 Change to the EPICenter install directory,
cd < EPICenter_install_directory >
2 Enter the command
runclient
You can also select Run from the Start menu and enter the command
< EPICenter_install_directory >\runclient