Key features

• – Highly flexible and scalable deployment options
• – Powerful administration control
• – Rich resource management
• – Detailed performance monitoring and management, flexible centralized reporting
• – Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) capabilities
• – Integration with HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave), ClearPass and HPE OneView
• – Cisco Nexus support
• – VxLAN support and API Enhancements

• − Network asset management
• tracks assets as well as changes to assets. This feature provides operators with a list of asset and drilldown capabilities into individual device details or device audit details. Operators can also query IMC for specific audit records and manage the device auditing process.

• − Real-time fault management
• integrates network management system of fault, performance, auditing, security, and configuration reduces the effort required to manage complex network infrastructures, allowing network managers to have one database of network devices in IMC that drives various tasks of network management. The database integrates with all IMC functions. The alarm or event management system in IMC uses the existing device database and generates alarms in events of interest.

• − Global VLAN management
• gives administrators the ability to create standardized VLANs across all devices in the infrastructure that support VLANs. They can create VLANs, then add, configure, or remove them from all devices that support this feature. VLANs can be deployed in batch or individually for devices configuring VLANs. Administrators can also see VLANs on a topology view.

• − Customized functions and third-party device support
• extends device management and configuration functions; users can either extend an existing function to support third-party devices by compiling interactive scripts and XML files, or customize a function by compiling interactive scripts, XML files, and UI configuration files.

• − Performance monitoring and management
• provides the ability to monitor the performance of devices managed by IMC. The Performance Management features provide the ability to customize the collection, alarming, and presentation of performance data. IMC enables real-time and historical performance management for managed devices like routers and switches on data like IPSec VPNs, WSM, and QoS. Also customizable are threshold settings, performance views and data, and global monitors; real-time viewing.

• − Security Control Center
• defines policies and enforces device settings consistently on selected devices; you can also use policies to manage VLANs and VLAN port settings or automatically apply a configuration template on newly discovered devices. Configure policies to send alarms when device configurations become noncompliant.

• − Network data collection
• generates, packages, and sends archived information about your network, device, or IMC Software to the appropriate Hewlett Packard Enterprise support or sales organizations in one simple step; this feature gathers the data you selected and generates reports and data files containing the relevant information; it delivers the reports to your selected destination by email, FTP, SFTP, or to a file location.

• − Intuitive user interface
• desktop UI provides up to eight customizable icon-based screen interfaces that can be organized along specific tasks. Includes many features enabling administrators and operators to manage the network infrastructure. IMC also provides operators with many paths to the same destination. Operators are provided with quick start guides. With the My Favorites feature, operators can create links to the IMC features they use most often.

• − eAPI library and third-party applications
• the IMC eAPI library utilizes a RESTful implementation for simplified integration with HPE and third-party applications; eAPI calls are available in the library, which is included with IMC Standard software.

• − Highly flexible and scalable deployment models
• helps deliver an extensive set of capabilities for managing large heterogeneous networks, and provides scalability and high availability through a flexible distributed deployment model. With its modular design, IMC software can be deployed across multiple servers to provide increased scalability and resilience.

• − Rich Resource management
• provides network discovery and topology, including detailed inventory of the network and accurate depictions of how it is configured. Supported views include Layer 2 and 3 as well as VLAN topology and the ability to create custom views like a dashboard homepage. Customization enables administrators to organize and control the network infrastructure. Supports multidevice context, Intelligent Resilient Fabric, and End-of-Life Notifications via device discovery

• − Telnet/SSH proxy
• with the Telnet/SSH proxy, an administrator can use a browser to remotely access and manage devices through Telnet/SSH without installing a Telnet/SSH tool on the PC client used to access the device. This promotes secure and controlled access to devices while providing auditing of changes on any device; supports SSH v1/v2

• − Service Monitor
• monitors the availability and responsiveness of common network services via probes that you configure; the probes reside on local and remote IMC software agents and test services from servers and devices that you select when configuring the probes; monitor these protocols: DNS, FTP, HTTP, TCP, UDP, VoIP (using NTA module), SMTP, DHCP, ICMP, Radius, TACACS+

• − High availability (Optional add-on license)
• Provides high availability (HA) for the IMC system by offering one or multiple standby IMC servers for redundancy. IMC HA can be implemented using a deployment with a remote database or shared storage.

Warranty and support

• − Electronic and telephone support
• Limited electronic and business-hours telephone support is available from Hewlett Packard Enterprise; to reach our support centers, refer to http://www.hpe.com/networking/contact-support;

• −Software releases
• to find software for your product, refer to http://www.hpe.com/networking/support.