Extreme Networks EPICenter 5.0, Manual

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34 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide
Getting Started with EPICenter
Note that you must provide the SNMP read community string to enable EPICenter to get information
from the devices it finds. If your devices do not all use the same read community string, you will need
to add each set of devices as a separate specification, as shown in the example.
When you run the discovery, EPICenter returns a list of all the devices it has found within the
parameters you provided, as shown in Figure 6.
It does not automatically add these devices to the EPICenter inventory; you must select and add the
devices either individually or in groups.
Figure 6: Results of a discovery
To add devices to the database, select the set of devices you want to add and click the Add button.
For each device or set of devices you add to the inventory database, EPICenter first asks you to provide
contact information for those devices:
• The device login name and password
• The EPICenter Device Group in which the device should be place
• The SNMP write community string (for SNMP v1 devices)
• The User Name, Privacy and Authentication protocols and passwords for SNMP V3 devices
EPICenter pops up a dialog box where you can provide this information. It pre-fills the fields with a
default set of communication information that you can change as appropriate to the specific devices you
are adding.
The information you provide in the pop-up dialog is used for all the devices in the set you have selected
to add. Therefore, if you have devices that use different passwords, protocols, or community strings,
you must add them to the database in separate Add operations.