Optivity Switch Manager
Optivity Switch Manager (OSM) is a configuration management software (registered trademark ) for Ethernet - Switches and Ethernet Routing Switches company Nortel Networks , the 2009 Avaya was acquired.
The software has now been renamed Enterprise Switch Manager (ESM).
history
- Versions from OSM 1.0 to 4.1
- from 5.0 ESM (renamed)
Basing and support
It is software that is Java- based and visualizes the network management information using a GUI . It supports the SNMP -standard based configuration of Ethernet switches. OSM supports element management, the dedicated configuration of individual devices, as well as the network-wide configuration of Ethernet switch groups. The Optivity Switch Manager software requires operating system platforms such as Linux , UNIX , or Windows .
Functionalities
At a glance, the Optivity Switch Manager software supports extensive configuration management functions:
- Error management: trap receiver, syslog file analysis.
- Configuration management: VLAN manager, MLT manager, multicast manager, file and inventory manager.
- Performance management: SNMP real-time statistics , RMON statistics.
- Security Management: Security Manager.
Further functionalities
- General color coding of the network management information displayed
- Visualization of the topology map and device interconnection
- Search and find MAC or IP addresses in the Ethernet
- Finding Ethernet switches with unsaved configurations
- Time-controlled generation of inventory lists
- Time-controlled configuration file management
- Syslog
- Java Device Manager
- SNMP real-time logging
- TFTP service
- Task scheduling
literature
- John Strassner: Policy-Based Network Management. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier 2004, ISBN 1-55860-859-1 .
Web links
- Optivity Switch Manager (accessed July 24, 2017)