Epicenter Stand-Alone Utilities; Epicenter Components - Extreme Networks EPICenter Software Installation Manual

passwords, and access permissions in each switch, and instead centralizes the configuration in one
location in EPICenter.

EPICenter Stand-alone Utilities

The EPICenter software provides several stand-alone utilities or scripts that streamline the process of
getting information into and out of the EPICenter database, or facilitate certain device troubleshooting
functions. These are the following:
• The DevCLI utility lets you add devices to and remove devices from the EPICenter inventory
database via command, and supports batch additions and deletions specified via a file.
• A set of Inventory Export scripts that enable you to export information from the EPICenter database
about the devices that are being managed. The information is provided in a format suitable for
import into other applications, such as a spreadsheet.
• The SNMPCLI utility provides SNMP Get, GetNext, and SNMP walk features that may be needed to
obtain device MIB information for troubleshooting.
• A set of utilities that provide a command line interface to several EPICenter software functions.
These include the AlarmMgr utility, FindAddr utility, TransferMgr utility, and VlanMgr utility. These
utilities enable you to perform certain EPICenter functions from the command line (or through a
script) rather than through the EPICenter graphical user interface. Results from the Alarm Manager
utility and the Find Address utility can be output to a file.

EPICenter Components

The EPICenter software is made up of three major functional components:
• The EPICenter Server, which is based on the Tomcat Java server. The server is responsible for
downloading applets, running servlets, managing security, and communicating with the database.
• A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere, which is
used as both a persistent data store and a data cache.
• EPICenter client applications. This can be an installed client application that runs on a
Windows 2000/XP or Solaris system. For Windows systems only, the client can also be a set of Java
applets downloaded from the server to the client on demand into a Java-enabled browser running
the Java plug-in ( Java 1.3.1_03 ).
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