Extreme Networks ISM Provision User manual

Extreme Networks, Inc.
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http://www.extremenetworks.com
Network Infrastructure
Manager User Guide
Infrastructure Client for ISM Provision
Published: April, 2002
Part number:100120-00 rev01

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Contents
Preface
Introduction ix
Terminology x
Conventions x
Related Publications xii
1 Infrastructure and Services Management Provision
Overview
Overview 1-1
Summary of Features 1-2
How ISM Provision works 1-3
Your Network Devices 1-4
ISM Provision Server 1-4
Device Communicators 1-4
Network Infrastructure Manager Client 1-5
IP Service Manager Client 1-5
2 Starting Network Infrastructure Manager
Overview 2-1
Starting Network Infrastructure Manager 2-1
3 Network Infrastructure Manager Overview

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Network Infrastructure Manager Overview 3-1
Summary of Features 3-1
NIM Views 3-2
Selecting NIM Views 3-2
Network Provision View 3-5
Network Inventory View 3-6
Providers Administration View 3-7
Server Administration View 3-8
Change Control View 3-9
NIM Icons 3-9
Open Changes 3-10
Save Changes 3-10
Modify Object 3-10
Copy 3-10
Paste 3-10
Delete 3-10
Move Device 3-11
Verify Configuration 3-11
Synchronize 3-11
Commit Changes 3-11
Revert Changes 3-11
Help 3-11
4 Network Provisioning
Overview 4-1
Network Provision View Panels 4-3
Network Panel 4-4
Templates Panel 4-5
Verification Panel 4-5
Properties Panel 4-5
Configuration Objects 4-5
Key Information 4-6
Unsupported Configuration Commands 4-6
Managed and Unmanaged Devices 4-7
View Device Configurations 4-8
View a Single Configuration Object 4-8

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View Multiple Configuration Objects 4-15
Modify Visible Configuration Options 4-18
Modify View Options 4-20
Create and Modify Network Device Configurations 4-20
Add a New Device 4-21
Add a Configuration Object 4-22
Modify a Configuration Object 4-26
Copy a Device or other Object 4-29
Save Changes Without Changing Network Configuration 4-34
Remove Changes (Revert to Server State) 4-34
Change an Unmanaged Device into a Managed Device 4-35
Access Extreme Devices Directly 4-39
Use Telnet to access a device 4-39
Use Extreme WebVista to access a device 4-40
5 Managing the Network Inventory
Overview 5-1
Manage the Network Inventory List 5-2
Add a Device to the Network Inventory 5-2
Modify a Network Inventory Device Listing 5-10
Delete a Device from the Network Inventory 5-11
Import Inventory File 5-11
Export Inventory File 5-15
Manage the Network Inventory Devices 5-16
Upload Devices 5-16
Save Running Configurations 5-18
6 Managing Providers
Overview 6-1
The Infrastructure Provider 6-2
Device Access 6-2
Managing Providers 6-2
Create a Provider and Provider Accounts 6-2
Limit Provider Device Access 6-5

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7 Managing the ISM Provision Server
Overview 7-1
Communicators Tab 7-2
Logs Tab 7-3
Control Tab 7-4
Manage Device Communicators 7-4
Add a Device Communicator 7-5
Modify a Device Communicator 7-5
Delete a Device Communicator 7-6
View Device Communicator Logs 7-7
Manage ISM Provision Server 7-8
View Other Connected Users 7-8
Send Broadcast Message 7-9
Stop Server 7-10
View Server Log 7-11
8 Change Control
Overview 8-1
Jobs 8-2
Configuration Versions 8-2
Change Control Tasks 8-3
View Current Job Changes 8-3
View Committed, Scheduled, or Saved Jobs 8-4
Delete Scheduled or Saved Jobs 8-7
Create Configuration Version 8-7
Rollback to a Configuration Version 8-9
8-10
A ISM Provision Devices, Images, and Modules
Supported Devices, Images and Modules A-1
B ISM Provision Rules
Overview B-1

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C ISM Provision Server Maintenance
Overview C-1
Database Backup Utility C-1
Database Backup Utility Location C-2
Using the Database Backup Utility C-2
Installing a Backup Database C-3
Adding a License Key C-3
Index

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Preface
This Preface provides an overview of this guide, describes guide conventions, and lists
other publications that may be useful.
Introduction
This guide provides the required information to manage a network using Extreme
Networks’ Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) client as the interface for Extreme
Networks’ Infrastructure and Services Management Provision (ISM Provision).
This guide is intended for use by network administrators who are responsible for
configuring network equipment. It assumes a basic working knowledge of:
•Local area networks (LANs).
•Ethernet concepts.
•Ethernet switching and bridging concepts.
•Routing concepts.
•Internet Protocol (IP) concepts.
•Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Additionally, this guide assumes a familiarity with the features and functionality of
ExtremeWare Software and with Extreme Networks’hardware. See the section, “Related
Publications”, for documents covering Extreme Networks’Software and Hardware.

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If the information in the release notes shipped with your software differs from the
information in this guide, follow the release notes.
Terminology
When features, functionality, or operation is specific to the Summit, Alpine, or
BlackDiamond switch family, the family name is used. Explanations about features and
operations that are the same across all Extreme switch product families simply refer to
the product as the “Extreme device”or “Extreme switch.”Explanations about features
that are the same for all devices managed by Network Infrastructure Manager (both
Extreme devices and others) simply refer to “devices.”
Conventions
Table 1 and Table 2 list conventions that are used throughout this guide.
Table 1: Notice Icons
Icon Notice Type Alerts you to...
Note Important features or instructions.
Caution Risk of personal injury, system damage, or loss of data.
Warning Risk of severe personal injury.
Table 2: Text Conventions
Convention Description
Screen displays This typeface indicates command syntax, or represents information
as it appears on the screen.
Screen displays
bold
This typeface indicates how you would type a particular command.

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Conventions
The words “enter”
and “type” When you see the word “enter” in this guide, you must type something, and then press the Return or Enter key. Do not press the
Return or Enter key when an instruction simply says “type.”
[Key] names Key names are written with brackets, such as [Return] or [Esc].
If you must press two or more keys simultaneously, the key names
are linked with a plus sign (+). Example:
Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del].
Words in Bold type GUI elements are written in bold type. Example: menu items, buttons,
field names
Words in italicized type Italics emphasize a point or denote new terms at the place where
they are defined in the text. Italics are also used to denote variables,
such as VLAN names, or user account names.
Table 2: Text Conventions (continued)
Convention Description

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Related Publications
The publications related to this one are:
•ISM Provision Installation Guide
•IP Service Manager User Guide
•ExtremeWare Software User Guide
Documentation for Extreme Networks products is available on the World Wide Web at
the following location:
http://www.extremenetworks.com/

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1Infrastructure and Services
Management Provision Overview
Overview
Extreme Networks’Infrastructure and Services Management Provision (ISM Provision)
is a tightly connected collection of components for delivering services to customers and
for managing your network. ISM Provision allows you to easily extend services to your
network users by defining and provisioning bundles of IP services. Services are
managed as simple objects that are easy to apply to customers, but the configuration
changes required to support the delivery of services is managed by ISM Provision. ISM
Provision also allows you to control all or a portion of your network, by controlling the
configurations of the devices in the network.
ISM Provision is designed to make it much easier to roll out changes to the network.
You can add devices and make configuration changes offline and apply them to your
network later. Planned changes are verified against a comprehensive set of rules to
assure that the changes can be applied to your network and will not conflict with
existing configurations. Incomplete sessions can be saved to be completed later.
Services provided across a group of customers can be easily modified. Once a service is
updated, the change is applied to all customers using the service. ISM Provision
manages all the configuration changes to make the modifications.
Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) is the GUI client portion of ISM Provision that
controls and manages the infrastructure of your network, the configurations of your
network devices. NIM works closely with IP Service Manager (IPSM), the GUI client
portion of ISM Provision that allows a provider to manage customers, service bundles,
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Summary of Features
•Version Control of Network Configuration
•Staging of Network Configuration Changes
•Configuration rules checking
•Helps Manage the VLANs, Access Lists, and QoS Profiles Required to Support
Subscribers
•Provides Service-Level Abstractions to Manage Subscribers
•Client/Server Java architecture - platform independent and scalable
•Offline and on-line tool - used in both green field and existing network
environments
•Co-exists with other management tools using CLI or SNMP
•Version control for configurations and deployment module for system rollouts
•Provides an abstraction model that simplifies and automates both infrastructure and
subscriber provisioning life-cycles
•Distributed device communication infrastructure for redundancy and scaling

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How ISM Provision works
How ISM Provision works
Figure 1-1: ISM Provision Components
ISM Provision consists of several different components:
•ISM Provision Server
•Device Communicators
•Network Infrastructure Manager Client
•IP Service Manager Client
These components work together to manage another important component:
ISM Provision
Server
NIM Client IP Service
Manager Client
Device
Communicator Device
Communicator Device
Communicator
Device
#1
Device
#2 Device
#3
Device
#4
Device
#5
Device
#6 Device
#7

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•Your Network Devices
The following sections describe these components and how they interact in more detail.
Your Network Devices
The network managed by ISM Provision consists of your current existing network of
Extreme Network devices, or a subset of your devices. Many devices can be managed
by ISM Provision simultaneously. The devices are managed by querying them for their
configurations, and by sending new configuration commands to them. Once ISM
Provision manages a device, it will periodically check that the device configuration for
changes.
ISM Provision Server
The ISM Provision server is the heart of ISM Provision. You may have more than one
instance of the other components, but only one server. The server contains the
information about the configurations of the managed devices, configurations that are
scheduled to be applied to the network at a later time, and previous configurations. An
ISM Provision server can contain the configurations of a large number of devices, but
does not communicate with the devices directly. Instead, it uses device communicators
to handle this task.
The ISM Provision server also contains the saved configuration changes that have not
yet been applied to the network. These changes may be saved to edit later, or may be
applied at a future time to the network.
Device Communicators
The device communicators control the communication between the network devices
and the ISM Provision server. All queries to devices from the ISM Provision server and
all commands from the ISM Provision server to the devices are handled by the device
communicators. To spread the processing load across hosts, there can be more than one
device communicator in an ISM Provision installation, but only one per host.
For example, in a network of 100 devices all managed with the same ISM Provision
server, you might have five different device communicators, each talking with twenty
devices. Any one managed device can only be managed by one device communicator,
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How ISM Provision works
Typically, you will install one device communicator on the same host as the ISM
Provision server, and then add other device communicators on other hosts as needed to
manage the processing load of communicating with your devices.
Network Infrastructure Manager Client
The Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) client is used to manage changes to the
network infrastructure. With NIM you can prepare and commit changes to the current
network configuration, and add new devices to be provisioned. Before changes are
rolled out to your network, NIM tests your proposed changes against a set of rules
designed to spot and help you correct errors (for example, duplicate IP addresses
assigned to different VLANs).
The NIM client also manages the providers, provider accounts, and provider access to
network resources. With NIM you can define a provider and restrict that provider’s
control to a specific set of ports on a specific set of devices. You can also restrict the
allowable VLAN IDs and IP addresses that the provider can assign.
The NIM client also manages the ISM Provision server and device communicators. You
can see the status of the server and communicators and examine their logs. You can also
see who is currently connected to the ISM Provision server and send a broadcast
message to them. You can shutdown the ISM Provision server from within NIM.
Finally, you can review the current changes in your session, review committed, saved
and scheduled jobs, and perform configuration versioning.
IP Service Manager Client
The IP Service Manager client allows providers to manage subscribers (subscribers
consist of a VLAN and a single port in your network). IP Service Manager also allows
you to configure service bundles (these correspond to QoS profiles) and policy based
services (these correspond to access control lists) for these subscribers.

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2Starting Network Infrastructure
Manager
Overview
Since the Network Infrastructure Manager (NIM) client is part of ISM Provision, NIM
relies on a running ISM Provision server and device communicator. This chapter
assumes that you already have a functioning ISM Provision server and device
communicator. For information about installing and starting an ISM Provision server
and device communicator, see the document, ISM Provision Installation Guide, available
as a PDF file, “install-1-0.pdf”on your ISM Provision CDROM.
Starting Network Infrastructure Manager
The following is a short summary of the steps to start Network Infrastructure Manager
Summary Steps. To start Network Infrastructure Manager you must:
1 Launch the NIM Client
2 Specify the ISM Provision Server
3 Enter a User Account Name
4 Enter the Password for the Account
Detailed Steps. The following steps are a more detailed explanation of the previous
section.
To start Network Infrastructure Manager you must:

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Starting Network Infrastructure Manager
1 Launch the NIM Client
Launch the NIM client as you would launch other applications on your host. For
example, Windows users can select Network Infrastructure Manager from the
Start>Programs>Extreme Networks>ISM Provision>Applications menu. Solaris
users can launch the nim executable file from the /opt/extreme/ismprov/bin
directory by using a graphical file manager application to double-click on its icon, or
by typing:
/opt/extreme/ismprov/bin/nim
Once the application starts, you will see the login screen similar to the one shown in
Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1: Network Infrastructure Manager Login Screen
2 Specify the ISM Provision Server
Once the login screen appears, you will specify the ISM Provision server. Specify the
IP address of the server or the hostname by typing it into the server field. Figure 2-2
shows the login screen and server field in more detail (if the server is on the same
host as the NIM client, you can also specify “localhost”).
NIM will store the IP addresses and names that you have specified in previous
sessions, so you may find your server already specified, or you may be able to select