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Working with the EPICenter Features
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For detailed help on specific features or applets, EPICenter provides context-sensitive online Help,
accessible through
Help buttons in most EPICenter applets, and through the Help menu located in the
menu bar at the top of the main window in the EPICenter applets. From the Help menu or Help
buttons you can view HTML-based help on the feature you are using, presented in a browser window.
In the Reports feature, there is a Help link in the introductory paragraph on the Main reports page.
From the Help menu, the EPICenter Help selection displays the table of contents for the complete Help
system.
EPICenter also provides the EPICenter Reference Guide which also describes how to use the EPICenter
features.
• On Windows-based systems, the EPICenter Reference Guide is available in PDF format from the
EPICenter 5.0 menu accessed from the Windows Start menu.
• On both Windows and Solaris systems, it can be accessed from the
doc
subdirectory under the
EPICenter installation directory. In the Windows environment this is
\Program Files\Extreme
Networks\EPICenter 5.0\doc
. In a Solaris environment this is
/opt/extreme/epc5_0/doc
.
• It can be downloaded from the Extreme Networks web site at
http://www.extremenetworks.com,
under
the Support area.
You must have a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed (version 4 or later) to view the PDF file.
(Acrobat Reader is available for download from Adobe Systems at
http://www.adobe.com.
Working with the EPICenter Features
EPICenter is structured as a set of independent Java-based applets that operate on device configuration
and status information stored in the EPICenter database. The devices being managed are the common
thread between these applets or features, and most applets provide a list of devices managed by
EPICenter from which you can choose devices of interest.
EPICenter also supports the grouping of devices into Device Groups. A device group is a set of network
devices that have something in common, and that can be managed as a group. Device groups are
user-defined, and can be based on any criteria that make sense in your network environment, such as
all the devices of a certain type (for example, all wireless switches) or in a certain location. Some
functions within EPICenter can be performed on Device Groups, making it easier to perform specific
tasks across multiple devices.
Within an applet, the actual functions or operations are initiated by either function buttons, menu items,
or both. EPICenter provides several standard menus for functions that are common to all the product
features, such as logging off or accessing online Help. In addition, many features provide pop-up
menus, accessed by selecting an element such as a device, device group, slot or port, and then clicking
the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu. These pop-up menu provide a quick way to view the
properties of the selected element, or to perform specific functions for the selected item. The online
Help provided in the EPICenter product describes the commands that are available in the various
EPICenter features.
Device Selection Persistence
Navigating between EPICenter features is normally done by clicking a button in the Navigation Toolbar,
which exits the feature you are currently in (typically abandoning any pending actions) and opens the