Access Extreme Devices Directly; Use Telnet To Access A Device - Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual

If this happens, examine the errors displayed in the Results panel of the Commit
Changes wizard. Fix the errors by going to the Network Provision view and modify
the device configuration. Once you have made the new changes, commit them to the
server.
Finally, you must select the Upload Devices... button in the Network Inventory
view, select the device, and select Upload. The changes committed to the server are
now moved to the device.
the Upload Devices... button, normally used to move configuration information
from the device to the server.

Access Extreme Devices Directly

When you access Extreme devices directly, you can modify the device configurations
manually, either by Telnet or WebVista. This allows you to set configuration options that
are not currently supported by ISM Provision. For example, if you load a new version
of ExtremeWare onto your device, you can still manage new features by manually
adding the commands to the device. Those commands that are not directly supported in
your current version of ISM Provision, are contained in the Unsupported Configuration
panel of the device object. These text versions of configuration commands are still saved
and monitored by ISM Provision.

Use Telnet to access a device

You would use your system Telnet application to access the device CLI to manually
enter commands.
Steps. To use Telnet to access a device:
1 Select device
Select the device to access in the Network panel of the Network Provision view of
NIM.
2 Select the Tools>Telnet menu item
Select Tools>Telnet from the menu. This will launch your system Telnet application.
(Specify the system Telnet application by selecting Tools>Options from the menu,
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In this special case of encountering an error upon changing an unmanaged
device to a managed device, you must use the Upload Devices... button to
move the configuration to the device. This is opposite to the normal action of
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