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Using Optivity Switch Manager, Release 1.1.0.0
Chapter 1
Introducing Optivity Switch Manager
This chapter introduces Nortel Networks Optivity Switch Manager features and
functions. The chapter includes the following topics:
• What is Optivity Switch Manager? (next)
• Optivity Switch Manager features (page 24)
• Optivity Switch Manager submanagers (page 24)
What is Optivity Switch Manager?
Optivity Switch Manager is a Java-based network management application that
allows you to discover and view up to 100 network devices and their physical
links on a topology map. Once your network is discovered, you can monitor,
manage, and configure protocols and settings in devices in the network using the
following submanagers within Optivity Switch Manager:
• VLAN Manager
• MultiLink Trunking Manager
• Multicast Manager
• Log Manager
In addition to these submanagers, Optivity Switch Manager has an associated
standalone application, Device Manager, that provides the ability to completely
configure and manage a single device in the network.
Optivity Switch Manager allows you to manage small to medium-size networks.
Since Optivity Switch Manager is a Java-based tool, it is platform-independent.
Optivity Switch Manager is also a real-time SNMP tool, allowing you to save the
topology map, error log, preferences, and communities in the application.
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