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Chapter 1
Overview
This document provides best practices for leveraging OmniVista 3600 Air Manager to monitor and manage your
Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure, which provides a wealth of functionality such as firewall, VPN, remote AP, IDS, IPS,
and ARM, as well as an abundance of statistical information.
Follow the simple guidelines in this document to garner the full benefit of your Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure.
This overview chapter contains the following topics:
l "Understanding Alcatel-Lucent Topology" on page 5
l "Prerequisites for Integrating Alcatel-Lucent Infrastructure " on page 5
Understanding Alcatel-Lucent Topology
Figure 1 depicts a typical master-local deployment for OmniVista 3600 Air Manager:
Figure 1: Typical Alcatel-Lucent Deployment
Thereshould never be a local switch managed by an OV3600 server whose master switch is also not under
management.
Prerequisites for Integrating Alcatel-Lucent Infrastructure
In order to integrate your Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure, you need the following information:
l SNMP community string for monitoring and discovery
l Telnet/SSH credentials for configuration
l Enable password for configuration
l SNMPv3 credentials for WMS offload
Without proper Telnet/SSH credentials, OV3600 will not be able to acquire license, serial information, and
monitoringschema from switches.