Notes on Enterasys Networks Equipment

When working with devices from Enterasys Networks (Enterasys has been acquired by Extreme Networks in 2013), co-workers often complain(ed) that it is not easy to find information regarding a given problem. That complaint is (was) not totally unsubstantiated, because web search engines (used to) deliver abysmal performance in finding the freely available information. This page is an attempt to ameliorate this situation by collecting links to existing info as well as adding some of my own. Introduction of the HUB and GTAC Knowledge (see below) improved the situation over time.

The situation deteriorated since then. Extreme Networks discontinued the networking devices acquired from Enterasys Networks, and the number of users of those networking devices is shrinking. Thus the number of third party information resources is diminishing, too.

The Enterasys HUB

In October 2013, Enterasys started an online community called The Hub. This is (was) supposed to replace the Enterasys Knowledge Base after 2013-11-13. The HUB is indexed by search engines (or at least some instantiations of it were). It seems that articles from the former Knowledge Base are migrated to the HUB. Thus they become discoverable via, e.g., a DuckDuckGo search. Extreme Networks later created a new knowledgebase called GTAC Knowledge, containing articles about Enterasys (EOS) devices as well. This GTAC Knowledgebase is (was?) indexed by search engines. ☺ The GTAC Knowledgebase site has been retired, but the articles seem to have been moved to the Extreme Portal, accessible via the search feature. At least at the beginning of 2021 search engine search results still contain old GTAC Knowledge links, but those are not redirected to the articles. Instead one needs to manually enter (copy and paste) the article title into the portal's search box. The 2021 Knowledgebase uses article IDs as reference, but whenever a given article is updated, it gets a new ID, and the old article ID is removed. Similarly, The HUB is now (early 2022) in its (at least) third incarnation. While the move to the previous instantiation kept old articles, the latest move lost all that content, including knowledge base articles only moved to The HUB.

Thus links on this page may point to a page not found error instead of (an older version of) the article.

It seems as if Extreme Networks does not want to provide cool URIs.

Enterasys Networks Knowledgebase

The Knowledgebase has been retired and replaced by The Hub. There was an additional, newer knowledge base called GTAC Knowledge. This is indexed by search engines and contains lots of useful articles. The GTAC Knowledgebase site has been replaced by the search feature of the Extreme Portal.

Some Links to Third Party Info and Tools

Random Notes


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