Subscriber; Customer; Ip Aggregation Point; Service Activation Tasks - Extreme Networks IP Service Manager User Manual

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Service Activation

Subscriber

A subscriber is a port and a VLAN that provides access to the network for specified

traffic with a specified Quality of Service (QoS). When you create a subscriber in IP

Service Manager, the ISM Provision server makes changes to the device configurations

to create the VLAN, Qos profiles, and access lists implied by your subscriber. There are

two types of subscribers, IP subscribers and IP range subscribers.

IP subscribers correspond to a port and a VLAN with an assigned IP subnet for routing

purposes. The service provided through this port can support hosts configured with IP

addresses that lie in the VLAN's subnet.

IP range subscribers correspond to a port and a sub-VLAN. This sub-VLAN is

associated with a super-VLAN and its IP subnet (in IP Service Manager a super-VLAN

is called an IP aggregation point). The IP range subscriber is assigned IP numbers from

this subnet. The service provided through this port can support hosts configured with

the IP numbers in this range.

A customer is a collection of subscribers. Since a subscriber can only apply to one port,

anytime that you need to provide more than one port of service to an organization, you

will organize the individual ports as subscribers, and the whole organization as the

customer.

An IP aggregation point is a super-VLAN to which the IP range subscribers are

associated. Each IP range subscriber is on its own sub-VLAN associated with the IP

aggregation point, a super-VLAN.

The following tasks are performed in the Service Activation view of IP Service

Manager:

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