Network Views; Device Groups And Port Groups; Map Views; Ridgeline Scripts - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

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Network Views

Ridgeline's Network Views provide at-a-glance information about the devices, device groups, and port
groups in your network. You can display summary information about the devices or ports, links
between devices, VLANs, and EAPS domains, and you can select individual devices in tables or maps
to view detailed information about them.

Device Groups and Port Groups

Ridgeline has a powerful grouping feature that allows you to assemble groups of devices and ports, and
view information about them or manage them at a group level. You can organize your devices and
ports in a logical group structure, and administer and view status of components within the individual
groups. Graphical representations of device groups can appear in Network Views

Map Views

Ridgeline's maps allow you to view Ridgeline-managed devices and the links between devices
graphically, as a set of maps. These maps can be organized into sets of submaps that allow you to
represent your network as a hierarchical system of campuses, buildings, floors, closets, or whatever
logical groupings you want.
A Ridgeline map is a graphical representation of a device group. When you create a device group, you
have the option of selecting the Map view of the group, which causes Ridgeline to generate a network
topology map, populated with the devices in the group.
Ridgeline also adds any links that exist between the device nodes. You can customize the resulting
maps by moving elements, adding new elements, such as links, "decorative" (non-managed) nodes, and
text, and customizing the device nodes themselves. Information about the links and devices in maps is
displayed graphically, with colored icons indicating device alarm level and state of the links between
devices.

Ridgeline Scripts

Ridgeline scripts are files containing CLI commands, control structures, and data manipulation
functions that can be executed on managed devices. Ridgeline scripts support syntax and constructs
from ExtremeXOS 12.1 (and higher) CLI scripts and the Tcl scripting language. Ridgeline includes a
number of bundled scripts that can perform such tasks as downloading firmware, uploading/
downloading configuration files, and configuring VLANs.
Ridgeline scripts can be run manually from the Ridgeline client, or you can configure them as script
tasks, which can run automatically at designated times.

The Alarm Manager

The Ridgeline Alarm System provides fault detection and alarm handling for the network devices
monitored by the Ridgeline software. This includes Extreme devices and some third-party devices—
those that the Ridgeline software can include in its database. The Alarm Manager also lets you define
your own alarms that will report errors under conditions you specify, such as repeated occurrences or
exceeding threshold values. You can specify the actions that should be taken when an alarm occurs, and
you can enable and disable individual alarms.
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