HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

Network managers, engineers, and operators face complex challenges in their mission to deliver a reliable and available network infrastructure. IMC is a comprehensive management platform that simplifies how IT staff can successfully meet these challenges. IMC was built from the ground up to support the FCAPS model for comprehensive management of the network infrastructure. In addition, IMC was designed to support the ITIL operational center of excellence IT practices model. IMC’s single–pane management paradigm enables end-to-end business management of IT services to address the stringent demands of today’s mission-critical enterprise IT operations. IMC provides scalability by supporting distributed and hierarchical system architectures, through additional operating system and database support to meet the requirements of complex networks. IMC uses a SOA model to provide full resource, service, and user management. Its modular design enables the integration of traditionally separate management tools. IMC enables enterprises to expand their infrastructure management in scale and to seamlessly accommodate new technologies at the same time. IMC base platform features IMC consists of a base platform and service components that offer additional functionalities. The base platform provides administrators and operators with the basic and advanced functionality needed to manage IMC and the devices managed by IMC. The IMC base platform provides the following functions: • Administrative controls for managing IMC and access to it. This includes granting or restricting operator access to IMC features through operator and operator group management. The base platform also includes features for the system-wide management of device data collection and information shared by all IMC modules. Features include:  The creation and maintenance of device, user, and service groups  Device vendor, series, and device model information.  SNMP MIB management and other system-wide settings and functions. See "Role based administrative controls." • A broad feature set for network device management, from the ability to manage SNMP, Telnet, and SSH configurations on a device to configuring Spanning Tree and PoE energy management for managed switches and much more. See "Resource management." • Management of the configuration and system software files on devices managed by IMC. This includes storing, backing up, base-lining, comparing, and deploying configuration and software files. See "Configuration and change management." • Real time management of events and the translation of events into faults and alarms in IMC. This includes creating, managing, and maintaining alarm lists, trap and Syslog filters and definitions, and configurations for notifications of alarms. See "Real time fault management." • Monitoring, reporting, and alarming on the performance of the network and the devices that comprise it. This includes managing global and device specific monitors and thresholds as well as creating views and reports for displaying performance information. See "Performance monitoring and management." • Access control list (ACL) management. This includes creating and maintaining ACL templates, resources, and rule sets and deploying ACL rule sets to devices managed by IMC. It also includes monitoring and leveraging ACLs that exist on devices for deployment to other network devices. See "Global ACL management." • Monitoring and managing security attacks and the alarms they generate. See "Security monitoring." • Global management of VLANs on all devices that support VLANs, managed by IMC. See "Global VLAN management." These are the functional areas of IMC’s base platform. In addition, the IMC framework and suite of services also includes service components for extending the scope and reach of IMC’s ability to manage the network infrastructure.