Michael McNamara

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Nortel Java Device Manager Tips

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I hope the majority of folks out there can agree with me when I say that Nortel’s Java Device Manager was a large step up from Nortel’s Site Manager application. While I personally do the majority of my work in the CLI interface, Device Manager is a very useful tool to have around.

I really like the fact that you can launch either a telnet or SSH session straight from Device Manager. Over the years I’ve found PuTTY to be the best terminal application so I configured Device Manager to call PuTTY for telnet and SSH connections.

jdm-options

After opening Device Manager select Device -> Properties -> Current. Select “User-Defined” for both Telnet and SSH and then place “C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe” (or wherever you have PuTTY installed) into option box and then use “-telnet <ip>” for telnet sessions and “-ssh <ip>” for SSH sessions (see figure above).

Another problem you can sometimes run into with Device Manager is the relative easy with which you can mistakenly delete a row (interface, VLAN, ACL, etc). Thankfully there is an option within JDM that you can enable called “Confirm row deletion” (see figure above).

Cheers!

Nortel’s Java Device Manager

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JavaDeviceManager I recently started having a problem launching Nortel’s Java Device Manager on my Windows XP desktop. Upon launching the application nothing would appear on my desktop but I could see the “java.exe” process in Task Manager.

I tried uninstalling the application but the uninstall appeared to hang toward the end as it was cleaning out the registry, I eventually had to kill the uninstall process. I even tried installing the latest and greatest version only to be denied at every turn. Then I recalled that the application liked to keep a list of recently accessed switches and settings somewhere on the hard disk.

I found the location under “C:\Documents and Settings\<USER_ID>\jdm” although be warned that the folder is hidden so you’ll need to make sure that you can see hidden files (Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Show hidden files and folders). I deleted the folder and bang I was back in business again.

I was fearing the dreaded Windows re-install, thank god I didn’t have to go through that!

Cheers!

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