Chapter 1: Ridgeline Overview; Introduction; Ridgeline Features - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

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C H A P T E R
This chapter describes:
The features of the Ridgeline
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The Ridgeline software architecture and components
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Overview of Ridgeline switch management
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Introduction

Today's corporate networks commonly encompass hundreds or thousands of systems, including
individual end user systems, servers, network devices such as printers, and internetworking systems.
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Extreme Networks recognizes that network managers have different needs, and delivers a suite of
management tools to meet those needs.
The Ridgeline (Ridgeline) Management Suite is a scalable full-featured network management tool that
simplifies configuration, troubleshooting, and status monitoring of IP-based networks. Offering a
comprehensive set of network management applications providing the ability to configure, monitor,
troubleshoot, and manage the network and its elements, Ridgeline delivers on both the basic
requirements of network management while adding valuable and intuitive features that help save time
by streamlining common tasks.
Ridgeline offers a comprehensive set of network management applications that are easy to use from a
workstation configured with a web browser and the Java plug-in. The Ridgeline application and
database support three of the most popular operating environments in the marketplace, Microsoft
Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Sun Microsystems' Solaris.

Ridgeline Features

In large corporate networks, network managers need to manage systems "end to end."
Ridgeline is a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use application for centralizing configuration,
troubleshooting, and status monitoring of IP-based networks of Extreme Networks switches and
selected third-party devices, regardless of the network size.
Ridgeline establishes a new benchmark for accommodating convergence applications by offering
intuitive user interfaces and by reducing the complexity of managing converged networking
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Ridgeline Overview
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