Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris

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devices. This Appendix also describes how to create a generic
SNMP icon for general SNMP stack management of third-party
devices.

What’s NOT in this Guide . . .

This guide is intended to provide you with the information you need
to install SPECTRUM for SEM on your workstation, locate Cabletron
devices on your network and properly deÞne their glyphs, and access
the
Glyph
menu, which provides a gateway to each of the
applications available for a particular device.
What you wonÕt Þnd in this guide are any detailed, step-by-step
instructions on how to use the applications available for each of your
devices; or how to discover devices and create a map or maps in
Solstice Enterprise Manager. The latter can be found in your Solstice
Enterprise Manager documentation; the former is located either in the
SPMA Tools Guide
, which describes the operation of applications
which are common to most devices, or in the device- and
application-speciÞc
SPMA UserÕs Guides
, which describe the rest of
the applications available to each device. The entire document set Ñ
including this
Installing and Using...
guide Ñ is provided in an
electronic format; all appropriate documents are installed for you
automatically.
This guide also includes instructions for installing SPECTRUM for
SEM for operation in a stand-alone mode; instructions for starting
each application from the command line are included in each chapter,
both in the device- and application-speciÞc guides and in the
SPMA
Tools Guide.
Year 2000 Compliance
Previous users of SPMA will note a few display changes related to
Year 2000 compliance. All SPMA applications now have the ability to
display a four-digit year value where this information is available.
For example, the Stand-alone Launcher window Ñ which uses your
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