Summary Of Features - Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual

Infrastructure and Services Management Provision Overview

Summary of Features

• Version Control of Network Configuration
• Staging of Network Configuration Changes
• Configuration rules checking
• Helps Manage the VLANs, Access Lists, and QoS Profiles Required to Support
Subscribers
• Provides Service-Level Abstractions to Manage Subscribers
• Client/Server Java architecture - platform independent and scalable
• Offline and on-line tool - used in both green field and existing network
environments
• Co-exists with other management tools using CLI or SNMP
• Version control for configurations and deployment module for system rollouts
• Provides an abstraction model that simplifies and automates both infrastructure and
subscriber provisioning life-cycles
• Distributed device communication infrastructure for redundancy and scaling
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