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16 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide
EPICenter Overview
repeated occurrences or exceeding threshold values. You can specify the actions that should be taken
when an alarm occurs, and you can enable and disable individual alarms.
Fault detection is based on SNMP traps, RMON traps, Syslog messages, and some limited polling. The
Alarm System supports SNMP MIB-2 and the Extreme Networks private MIB. You can also configure
alarms based on certain event thresholds, or on the content of Syslog messages. When an alarm occurs
you can specify actions such as sending e-mail, forwarding a trap, running a program, running a script,
or a Telnet macro, sending a page, or sounding an audible alert.
The Configuration Manager and the Firmware Manager
The EPICenter Configuration Manager provides a mechanism and a graphical interface for uploading
and downloading configuration files to and from managed devices. The EPICenter Firmware Manager
can download ExtremeWare software images and BootROM images to Extreme Networks devices, or to
Extreme modules that include software.
The Configuration Manager provides a framework for storing the configuration files, to allow tracking
of multiple versions. Configuration file uploads can be performed on demand, or can be scheduled to
occur at regular times—once a day, once a week, or at whatever interval is appropriate.
The Firmware Manger can be configured to automatically track the firmware versions in Extreme
Networks devices, will indicate whether newer versions are available, and can automatically retrieve
those versions from Extreme Networks if desired.
The Grouping Manager
One of the powerful features of the EPICenter software is its ability to take actions on multiple devices
or resources with a single user action. The Grouping Manager facilitates this by letting you organize
various resources into hierarchical groups, which can then be referenced in other applets. You can then
take actions on a group, rather than having to specify the individual devices or ports that you want to
affect.
You can also create or import named resources such as users and workstations, which can be mapped
through the Grouping Manager to IP addresses and ports. This capability is especially important in
relationship to the optional Policy Manager applet, which takes advantage of these types of resources to
simplify the creation of QoS and Access List policies.
The IP/MAC Address Finder
The IP/MAC Address Finder applet lets you search for specific network addresses (MAC or IP
addresses) and identify the Extreme Networks switch and port on which the address resides. You can
also use the IP/MAC Finder applet to find all addresses on a specific port or set of ports. If you have
enabled EPICenter’s periodic MAC Address polling, which does polls for edge port address
information, you can perform a fast address search by just searching the EPICenter database for this
information. ALternatively you can direct EPICenter to search the FDBs of specific Extreme Networks
switches. You can export the results of your search to a file, either on the server or on your local (client)
system.
The Telnet Feature
The Telnet feature provides two ways to interact with devices via Telnet: either by running an
interactive telnet session on a selected device, or by creating Telnet macros (scripts of CLI commands)
that can be executed on multiple devices in one operation, and can be executed repeatedly. Results of