HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Standard Software Platform is a standalone, comprehensive management solution that delivers integrated, modular management capabilities across fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security needs. IMC Standard software is designed on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using a business application flow model as its core to allow the management of resources, services, and users to be fully integrated. This software enables an enterprise business to grow its management in scale and seamlessly accommodate new technologies. With its SOA, IMC software is capable of incorporating additional modules to its base platform to provide deeper functionality. IMC software supports the management of HP and third-party devices and is compatible with Microsoft® Windows® and Linux operating systems. IMC Standard software comes with an initial license for 50 managed devices. Additional node licenses are available to extend the node limit. Management HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Standard Software: - cohesively integrates fault management, element configuration, and network monitoring from a central vantage point. - built-in support for third-party devices enables network administrators to centrally manage all network elements with a variety of automated tasks, including discovery, categorization, baseline configurations, and software images. - IMC software provides configuration comparison tools, version tracking, change alerts.. Modular architecture: new modules can be added to enrich network management capabilities; modules for user access management, VPN management, and traffic analysis can be quickly added to provide instant benefits; the architecture allows modules to share information and provide collaborative policy creation and reports Live update enhancements: IMC Standard Software now provides notification and download availability of the latest IMC patches as well as new firmware version releases for HP devices Virtualization management: - HP IMC software is one of the first management tools to integrate management and monitoring of both virtual and physical networks. - provides insight and management of virtual networks and reduces migration complexity by aligning and automating network policies with virtual images. - supports VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM; IMC Virtual Network Management software also supports automatic tracking of the network access port of virtual machines. Highly flexible and scalable deployment models: IMC Standard Software delivers an extensive set of capabilitiesfor managing large heterogeneous networks and provides scalability and high availability through a flexible distributed deployment model; with its modular design, IMC software can be deployed across multiple servers to provide increased scalability and resilience
