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Chapter 1
Introducing Optivity Switch Manager
This chapter introduces Nortel Networks Optivity Switch Manager features and
functions. The chapter includes the following topics:
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What is Optivity Switch Manager?
Optivity Switch Manager is a Java-based network management application that
allows you to discover and view up to 100 network devices and their physical
links on a topology map. Once your network is discovered, you can monitor,
manage, and configure protocols and settings in devices in the network using the
following submanagers within Optivity Switch Manager:
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In addition to these submanagers, Optivity Switch Manager has an associated
standalone application,
configure and manage a single device in the network.
Optivity Switch Manager allows you to manage small to medium-size networks.
Since Optivity Switch Manager is a Java-based tool, it is platform-independent.
Optivity Switch Manager is also a real-time SNMP tool, allowing you to save the
topology map, error log, preferences, and communities in the application.
What is Optivity Switch Manager?
Optivity Switch Manager features (page
Optivity Switch Manager submanagers (page
VLAN Manager
MultiLink Trunking Manager
Multicast Manager
Log Manager
Device
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Manager, that provides the ability to completely
Using Optivity Switch Manager, Release 1.1.0.0
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