PROCURVE MANAGER PLUS V3
Overview
HP ProCurve Manager Plus is a Microsoft Windows-based network management platform that enables mapping, configuration, and monitoring. HP ProCurve Manager Plus 3.0 provides security and extensibility for small to large networks with remote sites. Network-wide management control allows users to securely add, customize, and restrict network management access. With HP ProCurve security and wireless solutions, as well as extended third-party support, HP ProCurve Manager Plus 3.0 offers a single pane management solution. With remote agent extensibility, the software can manage many remote sites with encrypted communications and firewall traversal. Customers will gain superior return on management, security, choice, and flexibility.
Features
Manageability
⁍ Functional-based profile settings: HP ProCurve Manager Plus allows network administrators to create new profiles and associate what type of information is available for those functions, which provides more control of network access; Profiles can be set at a global or regional level to give fine-grained permissions within the network, providing a more secure access to the network at all levels of support.
Traffic monitoring
⁍ In-depth traffic analysis: An integrated traffic-monitoring interface shows detailed information on traffic throughout the network and delivers minute-by-minute views of the volume and content of traffic at specified points within the ProCurve network; Using enhanced traffic analysis protocols such as XRMON and sFlow, users can monitor input and output traffic levels by device (up to 10,000 polled ports per agent) in order to help network managers enhance network resources.
Integration
⁍ HP Network Node Manager-i integration: Advanced ProCurve device management: can be integrated with HP NNM-i to provide advanced ProCurve device support alongside this industry-leading multivendor management platform, which now provides integrated support for most ProCurve devices; Distributed deployment: HP ProCurve Manager Plus and NNM-i run on separate management servers for increased performance and coordinate management data and actions via secure communications
Policy management
⁍ Policy creation and enforcement: HP ProCurve Manager Plus 3.1 has the ability to create policies, set alerts, and take action to enforce network or device policies; Network threats, bandwidth, or link issues can be mitigated by proactive policies and can be enforced with alerts and actions.
Additional information
⁍ Windows Server 2008 support: the HP ProCurve Manager Plus management server runs on Windows Server 2008, including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions
Product Architecture
⁍ Agent-based architecture: User-defined domains: HP ProCurve Plus 3.1 allows user-defined management domains, which enable a broad range of activities; Security: Agents traverse firewalls to forward local network information to the server; Using one server and up to ten agents, management becomes faster, more secure, and more compliant with encrypted management communications; Scalability: Cost-efficient scalability allows users to pay for management as they need it.
Security
⁍ Agent security with SSL: Deploying agents in remote environments enables the agent to securely transverse firewalls via a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to the HP ProCurve Manager server; Once the system is connected, traffic monitoring and event notification use the SSL tunnel to securely transverse the Internet to the destination IP address of the HP ProCurve Manager Plus 3.1 server and agent.