HPE Intelligent Management Center - Managing and Monitoring your Network (HQ7C1S) - Lab Topology
Lab Topology
Lab Activity 1: Accessing HPE vLabs and HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Connect to HPE vLabs
- Connect to switches, servers and PC
- Verify SQL readiness
- Launch HPE Intelligent Management Center
Lab Activity 2: Installation and Initial Access
- Log into HPE Intelligent Management Center via the web browser
- Add and manage operator accounts
- Install an HPE Intelligent Management Center module and verify its installation
- Configure display tiling and widgets on the home window
Lab Activity 3: Adding Devices
- Configure the switches and servers for SNMP and SSH access
- Use the auto discover option in HPE Intelligent Management Center to discover devices
- Manually add devices using HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Convert Comware and Aruba switches from SNMPv2 to SNMPv3 using configuration templates
- Validate the SNMP, SSH and Telnet settings using HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Perform a backup of the HPE Intelligent Management Center along with the SQL database
Lab Activity 4: Trap Management
- View received SNMP Traps in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Search for traps from a specific device
- Get more details about any traps in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Search for traps from devices over a time range
- Understand the trap filters HPE Intelligent Management Center uses
Lab Activity 5: View Management
- Access and manage the network topology
- Use the network topology for MSTP information
- Understand all the different features and functions in network topology
- Access the IP topology view
- Appreciate the difference between the IP view and IP topology view
- How a custom view can be used in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How a port group can be used in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How batch operations can be used in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How network assets can be used in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How data center topology can be used in HPE Intelligent Management Center
Lab Activity 6: Configuration Management
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to import firmware into the software library
- How to create a firmware baseline
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to restore firmware back to baseline
- How to backup the configuration on all switches
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to create a configuration baseline
- How to compare various configurations
- How to back up the software of the switches
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to create an auto backup plan
Lab Activity 7: Alarms and Events
- Understand alarm terminology
- Understand the difference between real-time alarms and all alarms
- How alarms can be exported out of the HPE Intelligent Management Center database
- How you can add alarm widgets to the home screen
- How alarms appear in the network topology window
- How to use HPE Intelligent Management Center for edge ports
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center manages and processes both system and user-defined traps
Lab Activity 8: VLAN Management
- Manage global and device VLAN information
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to create new VLANs
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to create new Layer 3 VLANs
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to create access, trunk, and hybrid interfaces
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center displays VLANs in network topology
- How VLAN deployment tasks are used
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used in batch deploy functions
Lab Activity 9: Performance Management
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center can be used to examine and tune performance values
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center creates performance reports using index values
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center creates performance at a glance
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center creates a performance view
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center uses global performance options
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center creates a real-time monitor graph versus historic graph
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center uses performance monitoring in the network topology window
- Introduction to the Application Performance Manager module
Lab Activity 10: Virtualization Management
- Add an ESXi host to HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Create a new SOAP template that is applied to the ESXi host
- Apply the new SOAP template and test
- Use HPE Intelligent Management Center to view the ESXi host, virtual machines, and vSwitch
Lab Activity 11: Troubleshooting HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Scenario 1: Verify SQL database reachability and operation
- Scenario 2: Error message while trying to install a new module
- Scenario 3: Verify HPE Intelligent Management Center version and modules installed
- Scenario 4: Determine what may be causing slow performance in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Scenario 5: Verify prior HPE Intelligent Management Center operator activity
- Scenario 6: Diagnose why a switch backup is failing