Extreme Networks EPICenter 6.0, Reference Manual

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The Inventory Manager
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Disabling FDB Polling for a Port
For a device that has FDB Polling enabled, you can disable FDB polling for individual ports. You might
want to do this for ports that are really trunk ports rather than edge ports. (EPICenter considers a port a
trunk port only if it runs EDP or LLDP). To disable FDB Polling for individual ports,:
1 Select the Edge Port FDB tab and click the Operational radio button to display the Operational FDB.
2 Select one or more port rows for which you want to disable FDB polling. Selecting a row enables the
Disable FDB Polling button. The button appears at the bottom of the display (see
Figure 16 ).
3 Click Disable FDB Polling .
To re-enable FDB polling on a port for which you have disabled polling, do the following:
1 In the Component Tree, expand the device node (and slot node if necessary) to display the list of
port nodes, and select the node you want to re-enable.
2 Select the Edge Port FDB tab. This will display the (empty) Operational FDB display for the port.
3 Click the button at the bottom of the display that is now labeled Enable FDB Polling .
If the port already has FDB polling enabled, the button at the bottom of the page will instead be labeled
Disable FDB Polling.
Third-Party Device Status
If the device you select is a third-party device, and EPICenter does not have an image for the specific
model, it displays a generic device image (a vendor-specific image if possible, but without model-
specific details). If there is no configuration file for the device, and it is being managed by the
EPICenter, the ifIndex entries for the entire device are displayed in a table in the Device Information
panel.
Figure 18 shows a third-party device with an unknown configuration.
Mirrored Shows a green check if the entry is mirrored; shows a red X if it is not.
Secure Shows a green check if the entry is secure; shows a red X if it is not.
Blackhole Type Blackhole type (None, Ingress, Egress, Both)
Discovered The date and time at which the MAC address was learned