One of the best features of HP's Intelligent Management Center is not that it's modular and can do so many different things. It's not that it's scalable, and can handle tens of thousands of managed devices. It's not even it's alarming and event system. No, the best feature of HP's IMC, is that you can do things that it wasn't programmed to do. Take this use case for...
Read More About Custom Functions for HP IMC » Recently, I was asked what the best way is to label your cable plant within an office/building/campus environment. Of course, my answer was, "it depends". Scenarios The first thing I think about is "scalabililty". When you come up with your own "scheme" to label your cables, it needs to expand well. It also needs to handle changes easily, and with the least amount...
Read More About How I label network cabling » I love TACACS+. I know there are those of you who prefer RADIUS, but there are a few reasons why I love Tacacs It's tried and true. Stable It's TCP not UDP (c'mon, you knew I'd use this...) It's easiest to configure Group -> Command mapping So, when HP iMC 5.1 came out with TAM (Tacacs Authentication Module), I just HAD to try it out! So, I...
Read More About Can't authenticate Cisco to HP iMC Tacacs » I'm always searching for the documentation on HP's iMC eAPI. So, here it is: HP Intelligent Management Center Extended API Guide HP Intelligent Management Center Extended API Guide (new location)
Read More About HP eAPI Docs for iMC » If you have been reading my posts on SNMP and management, you will see a pattern....... "I hate Microsoft's position on open management". It's mostly because Microsoft will not make a move to SNMPv3. However, there is one thing that Microsoft did really well..... and that's the ability to turn ANY windows event into a trap. Brilliant! So, now, no matter who the...
Read More About Microsoft Event to SNMP Trap » When installing HP Intelligent Management Center , you have a choice on where to store your data. If you are on a Windows system, your options are SQL Server or Oracle. When installing on a Linux system, your options are MySQL or Oracle. Initially, my install was on a Linux system (CentOS), for reasons beyond the scope of this post. I installed MySQL and setup all the configurations as...
Read More About Installing HP iMC with remote SQL Server » 20 or 30 of us walk into the next HP Discover 2012 break-out session titled “Understanding Service Health Management in iMC”. Les Stuart begins the presentation with the overview of SHM. Chris Young , Solutions Architect for HP walks to the front and asks a single question, “How healthy is your network?”. Now, as you can imagine, most didn’t know how to answer it, and after waiting...
Read More About HP Intelligent Management Center - Service Health Management » Well, everyone keeps talking about it. It's on the web site, and in the documentation. A mobile app for HP's iMC? View alarms and device details? Sign me up. But, just EXACTLY where is it?? Some HP Solution Architects (Thanks Kurt Weil and @netmanchris) pointed me to the following link: ...
Read More About HP iMC iPhone app » Just got asked the question on how I collected and graphed the number of active IPSec VPN Tunnels on my Cisco ASA with the HP IMC (Intelligent Management Center). The OID I am collecting on is the number of active Phase1 IKE Tunnels: .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.1.1.0 Here is a screenshot of my Performance Index that I'm collecting: After that, click the...
Read More About Collecting Cisco ASA VPN Tunnels on HP IMC » I recently wrote up an article on creating your own terminal server. I'm building my home lab to study, and, while I have a Cisco 2500 router to use as a terminal server, I didn't want to spend the money on the octal cable. So, since I'm already using my Linux box as a Dynagen server , I figured I can set it up as my console server as well, for a much cheaper price. ...
Read More About Make your own Terminal Access Server » I’ve been really interested and excited with what HP has done with the IMC (Intelligent Management Center) over the last couple of years. I’m sure it was a great product before then, but I’ve only been following it for the last 2. This month, HP released IMC version 5.1, which has alot of new features that I wanted to check out, including 802.1x auditing. After I installed the demo...
Read More About Configure Juniper SFlow for HP IMC » Just checking out the iPhone app that ManageEngine published for ServiceDesk Plus . For those that may not know, I've been an avid ServiceDesk Plus user. Ever since I, apparently, was handed Helpdesk operations for my company, I have done unique and beneficial things using their software. I use it for time tracking in the entire IT Department, for project management,...
Read More About ServiceDesk Plus iPhone app » So many management systems out there to choose from. Open-source and proprietary, the numbers are staggering. Who do you use? What do you look for? Let’s get the obvious out there…. I want to know what is running, what is not running, notify me, and let me run historical reports on various metrics (i.e. CPU usage, Disk usage, bandwidth, etc). But, not all management systems...
Read More About 2 things I look for in a Network Management System » Measurements are great. It's how you identify what is what. How you figure out how fast you are going in a car, how soon you will get to your destination, how well something is working.... it's everywhere. The real question is, how you use the information to get what you need. That was my challenge this week. I had a database chock full of information from our...
Read More About Helpdesk Analytics » During Interop, I've had the pleasure to discuss, in detail, HP's ideas and plans for a "Single-Pane" management interface, coming from Les Stuart, Distinguished Architect. It should come as no surprise, that HP is the *KING* of applications. Their product line is very diverse. Some would even say, "too excessive", and each device has it's own management application. Not only that,...
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