Inventory Management - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

Ridgeline Overview
Manage large numbers of devices. Ridgeline server can manage up to 2000 devices with a single
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installation of the Ridgeline software. For even larger networks, you can split the management task
among several Ridgeline servers in a distributed server mode that lets you monitor the status of
those servers from a single client.
VPLS discovery and visualization. Ridgeline can discover the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
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configuration on the managed devices in your network, and display an overlay view of selected
VPLS instances, including information about specific pseudo wires. Ridgeline scripts can create
VPLS instances and configure devices as VPLS peers.
PBB discovery, visualization, and provisioning. Ridgeline identifies the Service VLANs (SVLANs),
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Backbone VLANs (BVLANs), Customer VLANs (CVLANs), and Extended Service ID (ISID)
instances in your Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) networks. You can display an overlay view of a
selected PBB network, along with detailed information about PBB components in Ridgeline tables.
Ridgeline's PBB provisioning feature allows you to create BVLANs on selected devices, ports, or
links, as well as modify and delete existing BVLANs.
Ethernet service provisioning. Using the service provisioning wizard, you can create E-Line (point-
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to-point) and E-LAN (multipoint-to-multipoint) services. You can select the devices and ports that
make up the service, specify the transport method (VLAN, VMAN, or PBB), create and apply
bandwidth profiles, then validate the configuration and deploy it on your network.
The Ridgeline features are described in more detail in the following sections. The rest of this manual
describes how to best use these features to manage various aspects of your network. For detailed
instructions on using specific features of Ridgeline see the context-sensitive online Help available from
the Help menu at the top of Ridgeline windows. The Ridgeline Reference Guide also provides a detailed
description of the functionality of each Ridgeline feature.

Inventory Management

Ridgeline keeps a database of all devices managed by the software. Any Ridgeline user with read-only
access to this feature can view status information about the switches currently known to Ridgeline.
Ridgeline provides a discovery function to discover the components of your network. Users with the
appropriate access (roles with read/write access) can use this feature to discover Extreme devices as
well as any third-party devices running a MIB-2 compatible SNMP agent. Devices may be discovered
by specific IP address or within a range of IP addresses. Third-party devices that support SNMP version
3 (SNMPv3) are discovered as SNMP version 1 (SNMPv1) and are added to the Ridgeline database as
SNMPv1 devices. Network devices can also be added to the Ridgeline database manually.
Once a network device is known to the Ridgeline database, you can copy it to a specific device group,
and configure it using a Device Manager (ExtremeWare Vista for Extreme devices). Ridgeline also
allows you to set a device to unmanaged status so that Ridgeline will not poll and can ignore traps
when a device is scheduled for maintenance.
Ridgeline also provides a command-line utility that lets you create device groups and import large
numbers of devices into the database through scripts, to streamline the process of adding and
organizing devices for management purposes. These utilities are described in
Utilities".
Ridgeline displays detailed information about individual devices through a front panel image that
provides a visual device representation, with associated detailed configuration and status information.
Any Ridgeline user can view status information about the network devices known to Ridgeline. Users
with the appropriate access permissions can also view and modify configuration information for those
switches.
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Appendix E "Ridgeline
Ridgeline Concepts and Solutions Guide