Duration: 5 Days
In this course, you will cover the features of HP Intelligent Management Center Software Platform (IMC). You will learn how IMC can be used for fault management, configuration and change management, accounting management, performance management, and security management in a manner consistent with the osi management framework. You will get hands-on experience using IMC to manage ComWare and ProVision products as well as products from third party vendors like Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware.
What You Will Learn
- Isolate faults in your environment
- Make configuration changes to your computing environment
- Manage the performance of your environment
- Increase the security of your environment
Audience
- Network engineers and administrators
- Network architects and consultants
Prerequistes
Experience in the networking field
Course Outline
1. Designing Your Network Management Architecture for
Success
- Steps for
deploying NMA
- Main
features of IMC
- Differentiating between IMC Standard and Enterprise
- What IMC modules can accomplish
2. IMC Technical
Design
- Demonstrating how
SNMP uses MIBs to gather data
- SOA based model for IMC
- Differentiating between Centralized, Distributed, Hierarchical and Hybrid
- Calculating Collection units give the number of performance metrics and polling
times
3. IMC Modules
- Licensing of IMC base platform and its various modules
- Illustrating how IMC modules can be implemented to create a holistic solution
- Selecting modules based on
requirements provided
- Determining what method of install is recommended
4.
Using IMC for Network Assessment
- Using IMC to gather data on devices in a network
- Defining the devices to be managed
- Collecting information about the devices
- Displaying reports about the devices
5. Getting
Started with IMC
- Configuring IMC for daily use
- Defining group setting to enable user privileges
- Features that are required by most deployments
- Creating workflows to improve alarm and event handling in IMC
6.
View Management
- Modifying
the layout of Network Devices
- Contrasting functions available in topology views to device view
- Selecting which view is better to use
- Accessing and controlling devices in either topology or device view
7.
Intelligent Configuration Center- iCC
- Device backup handling in IMC with baselines
- Completing software library configuration
- Completing auto-backup scheduling
- Creating Workflows to backup devices software and configurations
- Useful configuration comparisons
8. Multi-Vendor
VLAN Management
- VLANs for
organization
- VLANs per
Trunk
- Manipulating VLANs
in IMC
- Creating Workflows
to enable VLAN management across vendor switches
9.
Network Traffic Analysis
- What Network Traffic Analysis does
- Installing and configuring Network Traffic Analyzer
- Using Network Traffic Analyzer
- Illustrating how Network Traffic Analysis with other IMC tools can provide
insight into network issues
10. Performance Management
- Performance Metrics required for measurement
- Creating operator based view of the performance metrics
- Why one should NOT measure everything
- Using Port Groups
11. ACL Management
- Capabilities of IMC's ACL Management interface
- Components of and types of ACLs
- Using ACL Templates, ACL Resource pages, and the ACL Assistant
12.
Events and Alarms
- Discriminating between recovered and acknowledged
- Forwarding syslog and traps via e-mail
- Adding a note to an Alarm
13. Reporting
- Comparing Real Time Reports, My Quick Report, and My Scheduled Report
- E-mailing reports to users
- Using custom views to focus reports
- Selecting which Operator Groups will be able to access a report
14.
Virtual Network Management
- Parameters to configure a SOAP template
- Reviewing the virtual switch and its physical switch connection
- Configuring an LACP connection
- Port Groups are used to measure performance
15. IMC My Shortcuts
- My shortcuts uses in IMC
- Conducting an assessment using IMC Wizard
- Accessing different sections of IMC
Course Labs
