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4-6 Network Infrastructure Manager User Guide
Network Provisioning
device configuration itself. Objects can be displayed, modified, copied, and pasted, so it
is easy to add new objects with similar properties to your network configuration.
Objects can contain other objects. For example, a device object contains VLANs,
modules, connections, access profiles, and other objects. A device’s VLANs object
contains objects named for all the VLANs on the device. A device folder object contains
objects for all the devices in the folder. The object that contains other objects is called
the parent of the other objects and the contained objects are the child objects. Whenever
you create new objects you will specify the parent object that will contain the new
object. For example, if you create a new device object, you will need to specify which
device folder to place the new device. The device folder is the parent object of the
device. Another example is the management access object. This object contains, among
other things, the device user accounts. When you add a new user account to a device,
you will first select the parent object, the management access object and then add the
account information.
Key Information
A configuration object managed by ISM Provision is tracked by its object type and its
key information. No other object of that type can use the same key information. When
you create an object you supply its key information, denoted by a field that ends with
an asterisk (*). For example, when you create a VLAN, you type the VLAN name into
the Name* field. No other VLAN on this particular device can use this name. Since ISM
Provision tracks an object by its key information, you cannot modify key information
for objects. You can modify other parameters for objects, but not the key. If you want to
have an object with the same parameters but different key information, you will need to
copy the object, and provide the new key information when you paste it. The Finish
button on any of the Create wizards will not be enabled unless the key information is
entered.
Unsupported Configuration Commands
There are some ExtremeWare configuration commands that are unsupported by NIM
and do not appear as GUI objects. These configuration commands fall into two
categories: commands that are not appropriate to manage with NIM and commands
that are not yet implemented in the current ISM Provision version. For example, the
command
clipaging
(CLI paging) is unsupported.