Flexibility In Supporting Mulit-Vendor Solution - Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP 7.2 Product Description

VitalQIP Product Description
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Object Management – This menu item allows administrators to assign, reserve, move,
dynamically allocate, assign DHCP scopes and define properties to objects.
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User Management – This item allows administrators to manage users and the groups to which
they are associated, including user profile management.
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Go To/Search – This function provides a flexible search function for domains, OSPF areas,
subnet organizations, used or free subnets, or objects by name, alias or address.
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Reclaim addresses – When objects are moved or networks subnetted or rejoined, some objects
may be marked as used but in reality not be used. The reclaim function allows the sampling of IP
addresses on a network over an interval of time with results being to generate a report, to reclaim
(free up) the addresses or both.
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Global MAC Address Pool – This function allows one to assign MAC addresses to a pool. In
turn, the DHCP server with that pool can then manage the addressed based on inclusion or
exclusion from the MAC address pool. MAC address is a parameter of the DHCP packet during
the DHCP process between a client and the DHCP server.
Network Services Menu – This menu allows administrators to generate configuration files for DNS
servers, DHCP servers, Windows 2000 domain controllers, Bootp servers, NIS servers, and even local
host text files. With the click of a mouse, information entered via the infrastructure and management
menus is correlated and appropriate configuration information is displayed on the screen or "pushed" to
the appropriate server. In addition, a View Active Lease menu sub item allows one to view the active
lease file on a DHCP server for a specific subnet or the entire server.
Reports Menu – Management and operational reports can be obtained via the Reports menu. Reports
can be generated to the screen, a file, a printer, or emailed to an end user or administrator. Audit reports
are available for administrator activity history or object history.
View Menu – This menu deals with the toolbars and status bars displayed on the GUI.
Help Menu – Comprehensive on-line help is provided with the software.

3.2.2 Flexibility in Supporting Mulit-Vendor Solution

VitalQIP is a centralized IP management tool, which is also used to configure DNS and DHCP servers
from a variety of vendors. This provides a tremendous amount of flexility to bring VitalQIP into existing
environments and provide consolidated management of the existing infrastructure.
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