Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual page 82

Managing the Network Inventory
— Device Name (or IP address). This field specifies the name or IP address of the
network connection that you use for administrative access for the device. Since
NIM will be modifying device configurations, you must use administrative access
to the device. Use the name of the device as recognized by the DNS service on
your network, or use the IP address of the administrative network connection.
4 Enter the Administrator Login, and Administrator Password, Device Folder, and
Communicator Host
Fill in the next two fields shown in Figure 5-3.
— Administrator Login. Enter the administrative account name used for this device
— Administrator Password Enter the password for this account.
The next two pieces of information are selected from drop-down lists. The
drop-down lists consist of the following:
— Device Folder. NIM starts with one default folder. You may organize your
devices into folders of related devices, or put them all into the default folder.
Select the folder that the device will be added to.
— Communicator Host. Specify the host where the device communicator that will
talk to this device is located. An ISM Provision server may have a number of
Device Communicators to spread out the processing load, each servicing a
number of devices.
5 Select Finish to close the wizard
Once the fields are completed, select Finish. NIM will add a device entry to the ISM
Provision server, and the device communicator you specified will attempt to connect
to the device and download its configuration. The status of the device is reported on
the Network Inventory page in the status field. The device configuration is read
from the device and added to the server, and you are notified that the server
configuration has changed.
6 Choose Update Now, or choose Update Later and later use the Synchronize icon to
update
Whenever the server configuration changes, NIM is notified, and you are provided
an opportunity to synchronize the server configuration with that displayed on the
Network Provision view (if the notification option is set). You will see the dialog
box shown in Figure 5-4, Server Update Notification.
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