Device Groups; Port Groups; Gathering Device Status Information - Extreme Networks ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager Installation And User Manual

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Manager database, you can assign it to a specific device group, and configure it using
the VLAN Manager, Virtual Chassis Stack Manager, ExtremeView, or the Policy System.
Any Enterprise Manager user can view status information about the network devices
currently known to Enterprise Manager. Users with Administrator or Manager access
can run Discovery, and add devices to or delete devices from the list of managed
devices in the database. These users can also explicitly refresh the information in the
database related to the devices that the Enterprise Manager is managing.
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EVICE ROUPS
Devices in the ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager are organized into one or more device
groups. A device group is a set of network devices that have something in common, and
that can be managed as a group. For example, devices might be grouped by physical
location (Building 1, Building 2, first floor, second floor) or by functional grouping
(engineering, marketing, finance) or by any other criteria that makes sense within the
managed network environment. An individual device may belong to one, and only one,
device group. All devices become members of a device group when they are added to
the Enterprise Manager database, either through Add Devices or as a part of the
Discovery process. A device may then be moved to another device group as
appropriate.
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ORT ROUPS
Ports can also be organized into port groups to allow them to be manipulated as a unit.
However, unlike devices, there is no default port group, and ports do not have to be
members of a port group. Port groups are useful as policy objects, allowing a single
policy definition to apply to multiple ports, even across devices.
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ATHERING EVICE
The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager retrieves information about the devices it
manages in several ways:
• The ExtremeWare Enterprise Manager uses SNMP polling for the IP addresses
specified in a Discovery request to retrieve the status information needed by the
various Enterprise Manager applets.
• When a switch is added manually to the Enterprise Manager database, the
Enterprise Manager uses SNMP to retrieve status information needed by the various
Enterprise Manager applets.
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