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 » Fig 1 - HP Anywhere flow Some time ago, HP’s software team was challenged with a task to manage up to 100,000+ mobile devices for a company. These devices needed secure access to business data and it’s apps, and allow the company to remotely wipe the device without affecting personal data. A significant challenge, and one that the group was not going to back down...
Read More About HP Anywhere - Enterprise Mobility » When people talk about servers, they visualize either the massive boxes with tons of processors, or a large chassis with many individual servers. Servers for small businesses usually mean a large desktop or workstation with large drives. Until now. During HP Discover, Dave Donatelli showcased HP’s line of SMB servers to help them use a solid and stable hardware platform at an affordable...
Read More About Servers aren't for big business anymore » Below is my tentative schedule for HP Discover. If you are looking for me, there is an 85% chance I'll be in the below events/sessions. It's going to be one full week for me, if I ever get out of the airport. Some are HP Sessions, and others are coffee talks with leading experts. I enjoy the coffee talks, but the sessions are practical usage. I'm still waiting to...
Read More About HP Discover Tentative Schedule » 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 » Last year, I decided it was time to start working on virtualization at the desktop. The reasons were numerous and plentiful, and beyond the scope of this writing. Needless to say, it is a good decision. I decided on the Netscaler 8200 for it’s ability to scale, and for the Citrix Access Gateway features. Man, this device is quite powerful. Enough so, for me to question why I’m...
Read More About Citrix Netscaler, Synergy, and LPS Integration » HP Discover is a fantastic event. I’m not kidding! It is absolutely remarkable! You don’t have to be an avid HP-lover to attend. It’s not a requirement. But the technology, information, and people at these events ARE NOT to be missed! Not only does HP put on a massively impressive show, but I am ALWAYS geek’ing out with… well…. If I say “talented”...
Read More About Looking forward to HP Discover 2013 » On Sept 12, I posted a tweet saying that I purchased my first HP Switch. Obviously, this caused some discussion between the HP lovers, and the Cisco loyalists (okay, that's an exaggeration). In this post, I hope to communicate to you *why* I chose to purchase 2 HP 5406's, even though I'm working on my CCIE and I have Juniper EX's running around. First, let's talk about...
Read More About I purchased my first HP Switch! » 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 » During HP Discover 2012, I've been asking various HP divisions on the plans HP has for an OpenFlow controller. The reason? For the last 18 months, I've noticed that every HP event mentions SDN and OpenFlow. Why? Just adding support for a technology is not a big deal. One, maybe two announcements, and you are done. Why so much talk about it? Surely...
Read More About Interview of HP's Saar Gillai on SDN » Day 1: Being one of the late arrivals on Monday afternoon, I’ve pretty much missed all the great introductions with the many bloggers that HP sponsored. I quickly check into my hotel room, run to registration, just to barely make the initial Opening Keynote for Monday night. “Opening Keynote - Kunal Nayyar” FANTASTIC opening! Kunal Nayyar (from the Big Bang Theory) was...
Read More About HP Discover 2012 - Day 1 » 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 » The HP Proliant servers never cease to amaze me, on each generation they release. Many moons ago, the Proliant’s were just like other servers. People chose them, because of their stability and support, but, they didn’t really impress me. They had SCSI arrays, like everyone else. Advanced memory and faster bus speeds like other servers were common. To me, the Proliant’s were only competing...
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