Online Help for Optivity Switch Manager Release 1.1

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.

To use Optivity Switch Manager, you must have the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your system. Optivity Switch Manager requires JRE 1.3.

Optivity Switch Manager submanagers

Note: For a description of operating systems, devices, and software releases supported by Optivity Switch Manager, see Installing Optivity Switch Manager, Release 1.1.0.0.