Cabletron has added several new Web-based capabilities to its Spectrum 4.0 network management system. Enterprise Web Alarm View, for example, allows a user to view alarm data across multiple landscapes from anywhere within their network through a Web browser. This displays the total number of alarm counts for each condition, providing the user a quick reference point of how many alarms of various conditions exist in their network, as well as the total count of all alarms in the network. With the ability to specify the maximum number of alarms which will be listed in the alarm table, the user can control the amount of data that will be presented. The Enterprise Alarm Web is used to view information only; alarm management cannot be performed.
Cabletron also offers a Web-based switch management tool called WebView. This tool allows network managers to configure and monitor Cabletron SmartSwitches through standard Web browsers, while providing access to on-line documentation and context-sensitive help. The easy-to-use graphical interface of standard Web browsers offers a tremendous advantage over traditional text-based interfaces. With WebView, network managers no longer have to struggle with difficult text-based Telnet interfaces, for example, or make trips to the wiring closet with a dumb terminal every time they need to reconfigure a switch.
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