Installation Considerations - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

VoIP and EPICenter-Avaya Integrated Management
• The IP phones in the Avaya Integrated Management Console inventory can be imported into
EPICenter, and their location and status can be monitored from within EPICenter.
Support for these features requires that EPICenter and the Avaya Integrated Management software
version 2.2 be co-resident on the same server. The Avaya Integrated Management software can be
installed as a stand-alone application or as a plug-in to HP OpenView.
In EPICenter, the integration with the Avaya Integrated Management software adds the following
features when the two servers are co-resident on the same system. These features are not available
when the Avaya Integrated Management software is not co-resident:
• Discovery: an External Discovery radio button will enable EPICenter to retrieve the IP addresses of
devices the Avaya Integrated Management Console is managing so that EPICenter can discover
those devices. This button loads the IP addresses of the devices in the Avaya Integrated
Management inventory into the discovery list so that they can be discovered by EPICenter.
• Discovered Avaya devices will be placed in the EPICenter Inventory database, will appear on
Topology maps, and will be monitored in EPICenter as a third-party device.
• Three additional commands are available on the EPICenter Tools Menu:
— AIM Console: launches the Avaya Network Management Console (not available if the Avaya
Integrated Management software is installed as a plug-in to HP OpenView)
— Import IP Phones: gets location and status information about IP phones connected to an Extreme
Networks device
— Sync IP Phones: updates location and status information for IP phones connected to an Extreme
Networks device.
• On the right-click pop-up menus, when an Avaya device is selected, the Device Manager command
can launch the Avaya Device Manager application on the selected device. If you are running the
EPICenter client on the same system as the Avaya Integrated Management server, the Avaya Device
Manager runs as an application; in all other cases the Avaya Device Manager runs in a browser
window.
NOTE
The ability to launch the Avaya Device Manager can be disabled by an EPICenter administrator
through the Avaya Integration properties in the EPICenter Admin feature.
• In the Properties display for an Extreme Networks device (accessed from the EPICenter display
menu or from the right-click pop-up menu) an IP Phones tab is available. This tab shows the
location, identity (MAC and IP addresses and extension if available) and status of any IP phones
connected to the Extreme Networks device.
• An IP Phones report is available in the Reports feature that displays identification and status
information for IP phones connected to Extreme Networks devices.
• In the EPICenter Admin feature, a set of properties is available specific to the Avaya Integration to
enable or disable trap forwarding from EPICenter to the Avaya Integrated Management software.

Installation Considerations

The Avaya Integrated Management server and the EPICenter server must be co-resident on the same
Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 system for the integration features to function. Installation of the
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