With its extensive device support, IMC software provides true end-to-end management for the entire network, as well as the open operation cycle.

The HPE IMC Remote Site Manager (RSM) is a separate IMC service component that interacts with the IMC Platform to deliver centralized management for branch networks, regardless of their physical locations and the presence of firewalls and NAT devices. A special IMC Platform/RSM model is used to reduce management costs by eliminating various NMSs deployed at each branch network and deliver management features. The model comprises an IMC Platform system deployed at the corporate headquarters and multiple copies of the RSM component installed at branch networks. It can traverse the Internet or WAN through RESTful API to manage the devices on branch networks protected by firewalls or NAT. The IMC Platform and RSM can communicate via HTTP (or HTTPS to ensure secure data transmission over non-private WAN links or the Internet).

Key features

• − Comprehensive, efficient remote site management
• − Support for firewalled remote networks
• − Isolated local network discovery
• − Remote site service monitoring
• − Secure communication to agents with SSL

Features and benefits

Management

• − Utilization of browser-server model rather than the client/server model to provide branch network management by simply logging in to the network management system from a browser
• − Mitigates the need for devices in branch networks to support special network management protocols, and manages branch networks as easily as the local network of the headquarters
• − Manages each branch network as an independent unit supports overlapping IP networks in branch offices and the headquarters data center, and supports auto discovery of local devices by each remote site.
• − Monitors the status of Internet, DHCP, and DNS services for branch networks supports grouping of cross-site devices for unified management
• − Provides a variety of management tools for branch network management based on the Fault, Capacity, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) model

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; for details on the duration of support provided with your product purchase, refer toWarranty and support summary
• − Software releases to find software for your product, refer to http://www.hpe.com/networking/support; for details on the software releases available with your product purchase, refer to Warranty and support summary