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EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
EPICenter and Policy Manager Overview
Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the EPICenter software.
Figure 1: EPICenter software architecture
Extreme Networks Switch Management
The EPICenter software uses SNMP to monitor and manage the devices in the network. To avoid the
overhead of frequent device polling, the EPICenter software also uses a mechanism called SmartTraps to
identify changes in Extreme Networks device configuration.
When an Extreme Networks switch is added to the EPICenter database, the EPICenter software creates
a set of SmartTraps rules that define what events (status and configuration changes) the EPICenter
server needs to know about. These rules are downloaded into the Extreme Networks switch, and the
EPICenter server is automatically registered as a trap receiver. Subsequently, whenever a status or
configuration change takes place, the ExtremeWare software in the switch uses the SmartTraps rules to
determine if the EPICenter server should be notified. These changes can be changes in device status,
such as fan failure or overheating, or configuration changes made on the switch through the
ExtremeWare CLI or ExtremeWare Vista.
The EPICenter server does a “heartbeat” check, by default every five minutes, of all the devices it is
managing to determine if the devices are still accessible. It also does a full poll of each device at longer
intervals. This interval for this less frequent status polling can be adjusted on each individual device.
The EPICenter software also gives you the ability to gather device status at any time using the Sync
feature in the Inventory Manager applet.
Relational
database
XM_021
Extreme
device
Extreme
device
Third-party
device
Browser with Java plug-in
Windows client system
Server system
EPICenter applets
Installed client
Windows or Solaris client system
EPICenter applets
Browser
HTML reports
EPICenter server
TCP sockets
SNMP
Telnet
Application objects
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