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Extreme Networks Data Sheet: Ridgeline Service Advisor Feature Pack
Operational Simplicity
Network operators need a way to view not only the devices in their network, but also the inter-device connections.
Ridgeline provides a flexible and intuitive user interface that makes navigation and performing network operations
easier.
Congurationmanagementarchivesandreloadsdevice
congurationandperformscongurationdierentialsor
baseliningforauditingpurposes.Firmwaremanagement
obtainsBootROM,softwareversionsandavailability
information,andperformsmulti-stepupgrades—atonceor
scheduled—forsingleormultipledevices.
TheRidgelineAlarmManagerprovidesfaultdetectionand
alarmhandlingforthenetworkdevicesmonitored.TheAlarm
Managerprovidesasetofpredened,enabledalarmsthat
reportconditionssuchasauthenticationorloginfailures,
deviceproblems,reachabilityproblems,ordevicereboots.
TheAlarmManageralsoletsnetworkoperatorsdenetheir
ownalarmsandconditions,suchasrepeatedoccurrencesor
exceedingthresholdvalues.Operatorscanenableanddisable
individualalarmsaswellasspecifytheactionstobetaken
whenanalarmoccurs.
Networkoperatorsneedawaytoviewnotonlythedevicesin
theirnetwork,butalsotheinter-deviceconnections.Ridgeline
providesaexibleandintuitiveuserinterfacethatmakesnavi-
gationandperformingnetworkoperationseasier.Itsdockable
windowinterfaceletstheuserviewcriticalstatusaswellas
congurationofdierentdevicessimultaneously.Thetopology
viewinRidgelinedisplayseveryelementofthenetworkand
theconnectionsbetweentheminLayer2andLayer3withan
alarmcontext.
RidgelineprovidesaJava-basedclient/servermodelthatallows
multi-useraccess.Theclientisautomaticallyupdatedwhen
thereisanewversionavailableontheserver.Fordeployments
withmultipleRidgelineservers,theusercandesignateoneof
theserverstobetheprimary,whichwillcollectstatusfrom
otherserversandpresenttheminaconsolidatedview.
Figure 1: Operational Simplicity
Reduce operating costs
with easy-to-use
management software.
• Flexibleandintuitiveuserinterface
foreaseofuse
• Detailedtopologyviewwithalarm
integrationtoprovidenetwork
healthataglance
• Inventory,rmware/softwareand
congurationmanagertomanage
devicesandsoftware
• Customizablealarmsystemto
enableoperatorstoviewproblems
andtroubleshootthenetwork
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