Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: HPE Intelligent Management Center Introduction
- Introduction
- HPE Intelligent Management Center design features, requirements, and modules
- HPE vLabs access
Module 2: Installation and Initial Access
- Processes on the HPE Intelligent Management Center server
- How to login to HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Licensing structure
- Difference between an HPE Intelligent Management Center operator and an HPE Intelligent Management Center user
- Operator groups and how they can be mapped to operators
- How to install an HPE Intelligent Management Center module
- How to configure display tiling
Module 3: Adding Devices
- How to configure devices before you add them into HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How to configure access service templates
- How to use “auto discovery” to add devices to HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How to use “add device” to add devices to HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How to modify device settings in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How to use “check access settings” and interpret the output
- How to install DBman and backup HPE Intelligent Management Center
Module 4: Trap Management
- How traps are received and processed by HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How to view and understand traps in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How traps are filtered in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center is used to create a trap definition
- How to import MIBS in HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Escalate a trap (event) to an alarm
Module 5: View Management
- Access and manage the network topology
- Access the IP topology view
- Appreciate the difference between the IP view and IP topology view
- Create a custom view
- Create a port group view
- Create a data center topology
Module 6: Configuration Management
- How to backup software, define baseline software version, and compare
- How to backup, baseline, and compare configurations
- How to schedule backups
Module 7: Alarms and Events
- Understand the alarm window information
- How alarms are acknowledged and recovered
- How to edit the home screen
- How to cause an event to become an alarm
- Know how HPE Intelligent Management Center can work with edge ports
- How HPE Intelligent Management Center manages and processes MIBs
Module 8: VLAN Management
- How to manage global and device VLAN information
- Know the steps to deploy a VLAN
Module 9: Performance Management
- Describe the types of performance metrics that a network admin can monitor using HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Analyze the performance characteristics being tracked by HPE Intelligent Management Center
- View, interpret, and configure performance widgets in the HPE Intelligent Management Center 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 10: Virtualization Management
- An introduction to virtualization
- Adding virtual hosts to HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Using Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)
- An introduction to managing virtual devices in HPE Intelligent Management Center
Module 11: Troubleshooting HPE Intelligent Management Center
- Troubleshoot HPE Intelligent Management Center using various scenarios
- Know where to look
- And know what to look for