HP Intelligent Management Center Remote Site Management User Guide Abstract This book provides overview and procedural information for Remote Site Management, an add-on service module to the Intelligent Management Center that provides network management functionality behind a firewall or network using network address translation. This book is aimed at network administrators who manage and use Intelligent Management Center in their enterprise environment.
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Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................4 2 Remote Site Manager.................................................................................5 Remote Site Overview...............................................................................................................5 Application Scenario............................................................................................................5 Operation Mechanism.......
1 Overview Remote Site Management (RSM) is an add-on service module to the HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC). It provides IMC administrators with tools to manage routers, switches, and other networking devices across firewalls and NAT devices (Figure 1). Figure 1 RSM administrator console in IMC RSM includes two categories of management functions: • Remote site management • Device group management These functions are described in more detail in the following sections.
2 Remote Site Manager Remote Site Manager can manage internal networks isolated by firewalls or NAT devices and implement unified management of branch networks through the primary site iMC. However, this requires an agent to be deployed within the remote site. The agent collects device information and reports it to the primary site iMC, thereby implementing management of branch networks across the Internet or WAN.
Operation Mechanism Implementation of a scenario similar to the one shown in Figure 2 would be as follows: • Install an iMC Platform system in the corporate headquarters (hereinafter referred to as the primary site iMC), and apply for the license specifying the number of agents manageable by the primary site iMC. • Install an RSM component (agent) at each branch office, which becomes a remote site of the primary site iMC.
Figure 3 Remote Site list Functions Remote site operation involves the following four functions: • Modify Remote Site Info • Modify the Maximum Number of Nodes Managed by a Remote Site • Synchronize Remote Site Device Info • Access Remote Site Modify Remote Site Info This function allows you to modify the name and description of a remote site as needed on the primary site iMC. Operation Procedure 1.
Precautions • After the maximum number of devices that can be managed by a remote site is modified on the primary site iMC, the modification is automatically synchronized to the remote site, perhaps with some delay. • The modified value cannot be smaller that the number of devices currently managed by the remote site. • The primary site iMC and all remote sites share the license, and the number of manageable devices assigned to remote sites is considered used on the primary site iMC.
Related Topics • Modify Remote Site Info • Modify the Maximum Number of Nodes Managed by a Remote Site • Synchronize Remote Site Device Info Remote Site Operation 9
3 Device Group Manager The administrator can put devices of the primary site and of different remote sites in one device group to implement unified management of cross-site devices, as described in the following sections: • Device Group Overview: iMC provides functions to group devices of different sites for unified management.
Operation Procedure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Select the System tab, and on the navigation tree, click the Device Group link. On the Device Group page, click Add. On the Add Device Group page, make proper settings in the Group Name and Description boxes, and select the operator to manage the device group. Click OK. When adding the device group succeeds, you can continue to add device groups, add devices to the newly added device group, or return to the device group list on the popup page.
Parameters • Automatically Add New Devices: Specify the conditions for assigning newly-added devices to the device group. ◦ None: Not assign newly-added devices to the device group. ◦ All: Assign every newly-added device to the device group. ◦ From Network Segment: Assign the newly-added devices matching the specified network segment to the device group. Precautions • Only the administrator has the right to modify a device group.
4 Support and other resources Contacting HP For worldwide technical support information, see the HP support website: http://www.hp.
Prerequisites Prerequisites for installing this product include: • IMC v5.1 or higher installed and deployed on your enterprise network or lab environment. Typographic conventions Table 1 Document conventions Convention Element Blue text: Table 1 (page 14) Cross-reference links and email addresses Blue, underlined text: http://www.hp.
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Index A N accessing remote sites, 8 adding a device group, 10 Automatically Add New Devices, 11 NAT device, 5 network segment, 11 B parameters for device groups, 11, 12 Precautions for accessing a remote site, 8 for adding device groups, 11 for deleting device groups, 12 for device groups, 10 for modifying a remote site, 7 for modifying device groups, 12 for modifying maximum number of devices to be managed on a remote site, 8 for setting up your RSM application, 6 for synchronizing devices on a remote
single-site operation, 6 SSL encryption, 5 symbols in text, 14 synchronizing device info on remote site, 8 T technical support HP, 13 text symbols, 14 typographic conventions, 14 18 Index
