3Com 3900 - Manual (Page 8)

8 C HAPTER 1: W EB M ANAGEMENT O VERVIEW
Web Management
Overview The Web Management suite of features consists of embedded Web
Management applications and installable tools:
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Embedded Web Management applications — Use the embedded
Web Management applications for most of your device configuration
and management tasks. You can manage a single port or device, or,
using multiple windows, you can manage multiple devices. This
software, which is part of the system software image, contains:
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WebConsole — An HTML-based set of configuration forms. See
“WebConsole Tab” on page 13 for details.
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DeviceView — A Java-based application that displays a real-time
image of the device. You can manage each port, or the entire
system, by clicking on the part of the image that you want to
manage. See “Browser and Platform Requirements” on page 9
and “DeviceView Tab” on page 15 for details.
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Performance features — Dynamic monitoring through graphing
of Ethernet interfaces. See “Performance Tab” on page 20 for
details.
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Help — The configuration form on which you set up the installable
Help as well as access to links to support information on the 3Com
Web site. (For how to install Help for the configuration forms, see
Chapter 2.)
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Installable tools — Install some or all of these optional tools on your
workstation from the 3Com Web site, as described in Chapter 2.
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DeviceView accessories — To set up e-mail notification for
Status Logging.
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WebManage Framework — To group your access links to the
devices that you manage.
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Form-specific Help — To access hypertext information about the
fields in the WebConsole, DeviceView, and Performance forms.