Managing HPE IMC II: Compliance Policies and Performance Management

Prerequisites

Learners should have IMC operational proficiency and networking experience to get the most from this training course.

Audience

• Network engineers and administrators
• Network architects and consultants

Course Outline

Module 1: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center

• Create a policy and have IMC check for a policy violation on managed devices
• Have IMC perform an additional action based on a generated alert.

Module 2: ACL Management

• ACL assistant feature
• Managing ACL templates
• Managing ACL resources
• Managing device ACL configurations
• Deploying ACLs using IMC’s ACL deployment wizard

Module 3: Virtualization Management

• An introduction to virtualization
• Adding virtual hosts to IMC
• Using Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)
• An introduction to managing virtual devices in VRM

Module 4: Performance Management

• Describe the types of performance metrics that a network administrator can monitor using IMC
• Analyze the performance characteristics being tracked by IMC
• View, interpret, and configure performance widgets in the IMC home window
• Describe the difference between global index settings and individual device monitoring settings
• Configure individual device monitoring settings
• Use topology maps to access device performance metrics
• Configure topology maps to display specific performance metrics
• Describe the difference between global index data and real-time monitoring data
• Configure real-time performance data

Module 5: Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)

• Understanding traffic monitoring and NTA’s capabilities
• Configuring networking devices for NTA
• Configuring NTA for traffic analysis and auditing
• Using host session monitoring
• Setting up and using interface monitoring
• Setting up NTA widgets on the home window
• Performing traffic log audits

Module 6: Zero Touch Provisioning

• Create configuration template for the device final configuration
• Create configuration template for the device ZTP initial configuration
• IMC will automatically add the new device.

Lab outline

Module 1 Lab: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center

• Task 1: Connect to Your Labgroup
• Task 2: Launch and connect to IMC
• Task 3: Use “Compliance Center” for auditing

Module 2 Lab: ACL Management

• Create, deploy, and apply an Access Control List

Module 3 Lab: Virtualization Management

• Access and view IMC’s virtualization representation

Module 4 Lab: Performance Management

• Task 1: Examine and Tune Device Performance values
• Task 2: Access and Observe “Global Index Settings”
• Task 3: Use “Performance View” to monitor interface utilization
• Task 4: Access and Observe “Performance Option”
• Task 5: Utilize “Real-Time Monitoring” under “Performance Management”
• Task 6: Utilize “Real-Time Monitoring” under “Device Details”
• Task 7: Observe Real-Time data on topology maps
• Task 8: “Application Performance Manager” introduction

Module 5 Lab: Network Traffic Analyzer

• Task 1: Add Comware to NTA
• Task 2: Create a “Traffic Analysis Task”
• Task 3: Perform host session monitoring
• Task 4: Perform interface monitoring

Module 6 Lab: Zero Touch Provisioning

• Task 1: Prepare lab system for device zero touch configuration
• Task 2: Configure an Auto Deployment Plan for device zero configuration
• Task 3: Observe a successful ZTP-ADP operation