Key features

• – Highly flexible and scalable deployment options
• – Powerful administration control
• – Rich resource management
• – Flexible centralized reporting
• – The WSM and NTA modules along with the eAPI library are included in the IMC Enterprise platform
• – Integration with HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave), ClearPass and HPE OneView
• – Cisco Nexus support
• – VxLAN support and API Enhancements

The HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Enterprise Software Platform is a comprehensive management platform that was built from the ground up to support the Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (FCAPS) model. It provides features and functions that are designed for comprehensive management of the network infrastructure.

IMC was designed to provide the following functions:

• – Supports the ITIL operational center of excellence IT practices model
• – Uses a single-pane management paradigm to enable end-to-end business management of IT services
• – Provides scalability by supporting distributed and hierarchical system architectures, through additional operating system and database support.
• – Uses an SOA model to provide full resource, service, and user management.
• – Enables the integration of traditionally separate management tools using a modular design.
• – Enables enterprises to expand their infrastructure management in scale and to seamlessly accommodate new technologies at the same time.

IIMC is compatible with Microsoft® Windows® Server as well as Red Hat Linux and supports the management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and third-party devices. The base license supports 50 devices, five nodes of IMC NTA, the eAPI library and WSM with 50 AP nodes. Additional licenses are available for purchase.

Features and Benefits

Management

• – Integration with HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave), ClearPass, and HPE OneView
• allows administrators from IMC to use AirWave for "user centric" wired management and wireless management while IMC provides edge to core infrastructure management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Integration with ClearPass ensures IMC has the user context, allowing the administrator to easily associate an IP address to the logged on user. OneView integration automates the provisioning of ToR switches when VLANs are added.
• – Resource management
• provides comprehensive element management for multi-vendor devices using a single Web portal. Operators have access to a feature set for managing and monitoring many different networking devices and can manage them individually or in a group. Operators can also add devices manually, by CSV file, or through auto- discovery. Operators can view devices by topology, IP view, device view, and custom view and see key device details.
• – Configuration and change management
• combines the tasks of network device change and configuration management to effectively manage devices and audit changes Like the IMC Resource Management feature, the Configuration Center has a portal for accessing most IMC change and configuration management features. Operators can view and deploy software to devices, access configuration templates, utilize a system software library, clean the device for new deployments, and back the system up.
• – 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> Allows real-time viewing.
• – Virtualization management

  • HPE IMC Software integrates management and the capability to integrate, discover, map, manage and monitor virtualized environments, helping to identify VM sprawl.
  • Provides insight and management of virtual networks, and reduces migration complexity by aligning as well as automating network policies with virtual images.
  • Supports VMware®, Hyper-V, and KVM; IMC Virtual Network Management Software; and automatic tracking of the network access port of virtual machines.
• – Flexible, centralized reporting
• offers administrator performance, operator performance, and resource reporting options by template. Other reports offered include real-time reports and ick custom reports. Quick custom reports give device and link reports. Device reports give information like IP address, status, location, hardware/software version on devices while link reports show connected to either end of a link. Reports can be customized in the interfaced to meet
• specific needs.
• – Global ACL management
• provides operators with a comprehensive feature set for managing ACLs including viewing and configuring ACLs on devices managed by IMC, and importing ACLs. The ACL Manager supports basic, advanced, link, and user-defined ACLs. The ACL Assistant facilitates ACL template rule creation and easier management. The ACL Resource List provides a portal for viewing and managing ACLs with a Rule Set List. The ACL Deployment Wizard assists in the deployment of ACLs.
• – Role-based administrative controls
• provides administrators with both the tools and the ability to grant access to only those features and resources operators need. IMC also provides controls and audit trails to support IT management best practices. Management rights and access to all resources managed by IMC are granted through operator groups, device groups, and custom views of the devices. An administrator can use operator groups to grant or restrict access to a variety of IMC features.