Voip And Epicenter-Avaya Integrated Management; Overview - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

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VoIP and EPICenter-Avaya Integrated
Management
This chapter describes how the EPICenter software interacts with the Avaya Integrated Management
software when the two servers are co-resident on the same system:
• Discovering devices managed by Avaya Integrated Management software
• Launching the Avaya Integrated Management Console and the Avaya Device Manager
• Monitoring IP Phone locations and status

Overview

The EPICenter/Avaya integration has been developed jointly by Extreme Networks and Avaya to
deliver a set of tools that enable managing and troubleshooting Avaya Voice and Extreme Networks
infrastructure networks in a coordinated manner. Each product can discover and display devices from
the other vendor, and can cross-launch both the network management application (EPICenter or the
Avaya Network Management Console) and device managers embedded in the supported devices.
NOTE
Avaya's Avaya Integrated Management 2.2 is supported on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server;
therefore, the Avaya/EPICenter integration is only supported in those two operating environments.
For information on Extreme Networks features available through the Avaya Integrated Management
software, see the Avaya Integrated Management documentation.
When EPICenter is installed on the same server with the Avaya Integrated Management software, it can
interact with the Avaya Integrated Management software in a number of ways:
• EPICenter supports the discovery and display of Avaya Media Servers, Media Gateways, and IP
endpoints.
• The Avaya Network Management Console can be launched from within EPICenter
• The embedded Avaya Integrated Management device manager can be launched for a selected Avaya
device.
• A single sign-on capability allows an Avaya Integrated Management user to be automatically logged
into EPICenter when EPICenter is launched from the Avaya Integrated Management software.
However, EPICenter users must provide a username and password in order to log into the Avaya
Integrated Management Console or Device Manager.
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