Edgewater Networks EdgeView 5300LF2 Getting Started
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Getting Started with the
EdgeView 5300LF2
Version 1.0
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Copyright (c) 2011, Edgewater Networks, Inc.
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Part Number: EWN021-02-K001
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Regulatory Compliance
This product was tested to comply with FCC standards for home and office use.
Licensing
Use of this product is subject to Edgewater Networks Software License Agreement.
Portions of this product include software sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and are covered by
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
See the VOS for EdgeMarc User Manual for more information regarding licenses.
Software Version
This documentation was written for EdgeView software version 11.2.
Release Date
June 13, 2011
Warranty
Product warranty does not apply to damage caused by lightning, power surges, or wrong voltage usage.
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Additional EdgeView Publications
• EdgeView 5300LF2 Hardware Installation Guide
• EdgeView 5300LF2 System Administration Guide
You can download these documents and additional application notes to help you configure, administer,
and troubleshoot your EdgeView appliance from http://www.edgewaternetworks.com/kb.
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Contents
Starting EdgeView............................................................................................................ 2!
EdgeView Quick Tour....................................................................................................... 3!
License .............................................................................................................................. 4!
System Security Overview .............................................................................................. 6!
Adding an EdgeMarc........................................................................................................ 10!
EdgeView GUI................................................................................................................. 10!
Using Auto-Discovery...................................................................................................... 17!
Adding a Group ................................................................................................................ 23!
EdgeMarc Management ................................................................................................... 25!
Backing Up EdgeMarcs................................................................................................... 25!
Upgrading EdgeMarcs..................................................................................................... 29!
Resetting an EdgeMarc Password .................................................................................. 32!
Device Status View ......................................................................................................... 34!
System Functions............................................................................................................ 36!
Database Administration ................................................................................................. 37!
Database Check (and Repair)......................................................................................... 37!
Backup Database (and Restore) ..................................................................................... 39!
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Overview
This Quickstart guide is designed to let the main Administrator of EdgeView learn the basic functions
EdgeView provides. This includes:
• Starting EdgeView
• A quick tour of the EdgeView Web-based application
• Licensing
• System Security Overview
• Adding an EdgeMarc and Group via GUI and Auto Discovery
• Some of the basic EdgeMarc Management functions
• Device Status View
• Administrator Tools
The Quickstart guide does not include more advanced topics which are covered in the EdgeView User
Guide. Some of the common advanced topics are:
● Creating a Tenant and assigning Users
● Creating and deploying (pushing) EdgeMarc configuration templates
● Restoring and Comparing backup files
● Setting up email and SNMP trap notifications
● Syslog filtering and Syslog matching (triggering)
● Upgrading and patching EdgeView
● VPN configuration
● MOS Analysis and Signal Capturing
● Active and Bulk Line tests
● Reconfiguring phones and phone templates
● Managing WAN phones
● Plug-N-Dial
● Automatic backup and Automatic Upgrade of all EdgeMarcs in a Group
● Automatic handling of EdgeMarcs that are unreachable for a period of time
● Export and import of managed devices to an XML document
● Advanced System Security and Radius setup
● System Settings
● Web-Service API (separate document)
These topics and others are covered in the EdgeView User Guide.
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Start ing EdgeView
Go to a browser (e.g. latest version of Chrome, Firefox or IE) and enter the IP address or fully qualified
domain name (FQDN) of the EdgeView. In this example, the EdgeView IP address was 10.10.90.176.
Get the IP address or FQDN from the System Administrator. See the EdgeView 5300LF2 System
Administration Guide to set the IP Address for this EdgeView (you can find this document at
http://www.edgewaternetworks.com/kb). If not set, the default IP address is 192.168.1.1.
Next, the EdgeView Authorization prompt dialog appears.
Enter the default login credentials edgeview, edgeview for both the user name and password, and hit the
OK button.
NOTE: It is recommended that the login password be changed.
After hitting OK, the EdgeView Main Landing page appears:
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EdgeV iew Quick Tour
The EdgeView is divided into separate panels for easy navigation and views.
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The top panel consisting of menu icons, which provide access to the general EdgeView functions. It also
displays the currently logged in EdgeView user and the Message of the day
The left side panel is the “Device Tree”. It contains Groups, EdgeMarcs, EdgeConnects, Phones,
Configuration Files and other devices in a hierarchical file explorer-type format.
The main panel is the area that changes when an EdgeView function is selected. This area offers specific
views and submenus according to the EdgeView function selected.
Licen se
If EdgeView has not been licensed through the TUI command line interface, then it can be licensed now.
Click on EV System:
In the top panel select the EV System icon:
When the sub-menu comes up, click on EdgeView License:
This will bring up the EdgeView License Page. Enter your license key here and hit the Change button.
License keys can be acquired from your support contact.
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When completed successfully, the page will be updated with the values.
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Syste m Secur ity Ove rview
The EdgeView offers a build in Firewall for advanced security access control. You can manage the
system security in details via the EV System -> System Security Menu:
In the top panel select the EV System icon:
A sub-menu within the top panel opens up, click on System Security:
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The System Security page itself provides detailed instructions to set up the blacklist, the whitelist and
whether to enable anonymous FTP. The whitelist in particular can be used to restrict access to EdgeView
to only those IP Addresses in the whitelist. Users should review this page thoroughly to ensure EdgeView
follows the security policy of the organization.
The top part of the System Security page lets the user manage the Blacklist:
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The bottom half of the page manages the Whitelist and whether anonymous FTP is allowed:
Note: It is strongly recommended a Whitelist be specified if EdgeView is accessible from
unauthorized users.
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Addin g an EdgeMarc
To manage EdgeMarcs, they must first be added to EdgeView through one of the following methods:
● EdgeView Web-based User Interface (GUI)
● Auto-discovery
● Web Service API
● Importing from an XML document
Setting up Auto-discovery and using the Web-based User Interface will be discussed in this Quickstart
guide.
EdgeView GUI
To add an EdgeMarc to a group or to the top-level using the EdgeView GUI, click on the Group in the
device tree (or the root for the top-level). For example, to add an EdgeMarc to the “Default” Group, click
on Default as shown here:
After selecting the group, then select Provisioning->Add New EdgeMarc... from the menu bar or click
on the Add EdgeMarc button.
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