About This Guide; Who Should Use This Guide; What Is In This Guide - Extreme Networks Summit WM Maintenance Manual

About this Guide

The purpose of this guide is to assist you in performing the maintenance of the following hardware and
software components of the Extreme Networks
Hardware
Summit WM Controller
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Altitude Access Point (AP)
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Software
Summit WM Software
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Who should use this guide

This guide is intended for personnel, who are responsible for maintaining the Summit WM WLAN
Solution.

What is in this guide

The contents in this guide are organized under the following chapters:
"About this Guide"– Describes the purpose, the target audience and the architecture of this guide.
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Chapter 1, "Backing up the existing image"
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before performing the upgrades.
Chapter 2, "Upgrading the Summit WM Software to V5R3
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Summit WM Software from various past releases to V5R3 release on various platforms.
Chapter 3, "Upgrading the Summit WM Controller from V5R3 to V5R3 General Patch
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Describes how to upgrade the Summit WM Software from V5R3 to V5R3 GP release.
Chapter 4, "Restoring the backed-up
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image from V5R3 on various platforms.
Chapter 5, "Using the Console
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console port to access the Rescue mode.
Chapter 6, "Performing system
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maintenance tasks: Changing the log level, setting a poll interval for checking the status of the
Altitude APs (Health Checking), enabling and defining parameters for Syslog event reporting,
forcing an immediate system shutdown with, or without reboot, and resetting the Summit WM
Controller to its factory defaults
Chapter 7, "Logs, traces, audits, and DHCP
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logs, traces, audits and DHCP messages.
Chapter 8, "Summit WM Controller's
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Controller's utilities.
Summit WM Maintenance Guide, Software Version 5.3
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Summit WM Wireless LAN (WLAN) Solution:
— Describes how to back up the existing software image
image"— Describes how to restore the previously backed-up
Port"— Describes how to connect to the Summit WM Controller's
maintenance"— Describes how to perform the following system
messages"— Describes how to view and interpret the
utilities"— Describes how to configure the Summit WM
release"— Describes how to upgrade the
(GP)"—
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