Creating The Device Inventory; Using Discovery - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

roles which can execute the macro. This allows you to create predefined configuration scripts for
devices or groups and devices, and control which users can execute those scripts.

Creating the Device Inventory

The first step in using EPICenter is to collect information about the devices on the network to populate
the EPICenter inventory database. EPICenter provides a discovery function that can automatically find
and retrieve information about the devices on your network. You can also add devices individually.
Both of these functions are performed through the Inventory Manager applet.

Using Discovery

When you first run EPICenter, the device inventory is empty. The easiest way to populate the inventory
database is to use Discovery to automatically detect the devices on your network. With Discovery you
can:
• Search for devices by specific IP addresses or ranges of IP address, including using wildcard search
parameters to specify the IP address sets you want to query.
• Limit your search to Extreme Networks devices only, or include all discovered MIB-2 devices
regardless of manufacturer
• Specify a subnet mask to use for limiting device ranges
• Enable the discovery to use SNMPv3 in its search
Figure 5 shows an example of a discovery specification. You can add multiple address range
specifications to be executed in a single discovery operation.
Figure 5: Discovering devices to add to the EPICenter inventory database
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