Copy/Paste While my first contact with Extreme Management Center’s Northbound Interface was driven by a concrete business need, I have stuck to that topic out of curiosity and laziness. Why bother with a sometimes sluggish web interface when a lightning fast API is available? Working with Extreme Management Center’s API Based on this need and interest, three different open source applications emerged: ...
Working as a network consultant and engineer I am often faced with very specific requirements from my customers. One of the latest requests was to support the implementation of a security framework by providing extensive information about the network. At first, a list of all switches was needed. Following that, my customer needed to know which VLAN is configured on which port – for all devices. The network of that customer consists of more than 50 switches, so both tasks would have been a challenge for a manual approach. Luckily, Extreme Management Center (XMC) is in productive use. However, even with this help at hand, manually gathering all required data would have been a pa…laborious. ...