IP Service Manager User Guide
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Infrastructure and Services
Management Provision Overview
Overview
Extreme Networks’ Infrastructure and Services Management Provision (ISM Provision)
is a tightly connected collection of components for delivering services to customers and
for managing your network. ISM Provision allows you to easily extend services to your
network users by defining and provisioning bundles of IP services. Services are
managed as simple objects that are easy to apply to customers, but the configuration
changes required to support the delivery of services is managed by ISM Provision. ISM
Provision also allows you to control all or a portion of your network, by controlling the
configurations of the devices in the network.
ISM Provision is designed to make it much easier to roll out changes to the network.
You can add devices and make configuration changes offline and apply them to your
network later. Planned changes are verified against a comprehensive set of rules to
assure that the changes can be applied to your network and will not conflict with
existing configurations. Incomplete sessions can be saved to be completed later.
Services provided across a group of customers can be easily modified. Once a service is
updated, the change is applied to all customers using the service. ISM Provision
manages all the configuration changes to make the modifications.
Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) is the GUI client portion of ISM Provision that
controls and manages the infrastructure of your network, the configurations of your
network devices. NIM works closely with IP Service Manager (IPSM), the GUI client
portion of ISM Provision that allows a provider to manage customers, service bundles,
and policy based services.
