Network Infrastructure Manager Client; Ip Service Manager Client - Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual

How ISM Provision works
Typically, you will install one device communicator on the same host as the ISM
Provision server, and then add other device communicators on other hosts as needed to
manage the processing load of communicating with your devices.

Network Infrastructure Manager Client

The Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) client is used to manage changes to the
network infrastructure. With NIM you can prepare and commit changes to the current
network configuration, and add new devices to be provisioned. Before changes are
rolled out to your network, NIM tests your proposed changes against a set of rules
designed to spot and help you correct errors (for example, duplicate IP addresses
assigned to different VLANs).
The NIM client also manages the providers, provider accounts, and provider access to
network resources. With NIM you can define a provider and restrict that provider's
control to a specific set of ports on a specific set of devices. You can also restrict the
allowable VLAN IDs and IP addresses that the provider can assign.
The NIM client also manages the ISM Provision server and device communicators. You
can see the status of the server and communicators and examine their logs. You can also
see who is currently connected to the ISM Provision server and send a broadcast
message to them. You can shutdown the ISM Provision server from within NIM.
Finally, you can review the current changes in your session, review committed, saved
and scheduled jobs, and perform configuration versioning.

IP Service Manager Client

The IP Service Manager client allows providers to manage subscribers (subscribers
consist of a VLAN and a single port in your network). IP Service Manager also allows
you to configure service bundles (these correspond to QoS profiles) and policy based
services (these correspond to access control lists) for these subscribers.
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