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Using the Inventory Manager
This chapter describes how to use the EPICenter Inventory Manager applet for:
• Viewing the EPICenter device inventory
• Discovering network devices
• Adding network devices to the EPICenter database
• Modifying device contact parameters
• Deleting a device from the EPICenter database
• Updating device information in the database
• Creating default access parameters for network devices
• Finding specific network devices in the database
• Displaying device and device group parameters
Overview of the EPICenter Device Inventory
The Inventory Manager applet keeps a database of all the network devices managed by EPICenter.
EPICenter can discover any devices running MIB-2 compatible agents. It can manage Extreme switches,
and a number of third-party devices.
The EPICenter software provides an automatic discovery function. This feature can discover Extreme
and MIB-2 compatible devices by specific IP address or within a range of IP addresses.
You can also add network devices to the EPICenter database manually, using the Inventory Manager
Add
function. Once a network device is known to the EPICenter database, you can assign it to a specific
device group, and configure it using the Inventory Manager, VLAN Manager, Configuration Manager,
Interactive Telnet, ExtremeView, or the optional Policy Manager. You can receive alarms about faults on
the device, and you can view a hierarchical topology layout of the devices known to the Inventory
Manager.
Any EPICenter user can view status information about the network devices currently known to
EPICenter. Users with Administrator or Manager access can run Discovery, and add devices to or delete
devices from the list of managed devices in the database. These users can also explicitly refresh the
information in the database related to the devices that the EPICenter is managing.