Managing Providers; Overview - Extreme Networks ISM Provision User Manual

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Managing Providers

Overview

The Providers Administration view in Network Infrastructure Manager allows you to
control access to devices, ports, and other resources managed by ISM Provision. You
create a provider, add accounts to that provider, decide which ports of which devices
they will have access to, and define pools of VLAN tags and IP addresses that they are
allowed to use. By creating providers and controlling access, your providers can
manage the services to their customers without disrupting the network or each other.
The providers you create will access ISM Provision using the IP Service Manager client
(IPSM) that will simplify the process of enabling services for their customers. Instead of
manually changing the configuration of a device or group of devices, they will be able
to add a service to a customer and ISM Provision will take care of the details of making
the configuration changes.
This chapter explains the following concepts about managing providers:
• The Infrastructure Provider
• Device Access
This chapter also explains how to perform a number of tasks in the Providers
Administration view:
• Managing Providers
— Create a Provider and Provider Accounts
— Limit Provider Device Access
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