Network Software Management Solutions
HP now features an expanded set of network management solutions designed to address your particular management needs. The ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM+) solution suite provides a unified management solution for wired and wireless LANs, network devices, and network users all under a single pane-of-glass interface.
The PCM+ suite is focused on providing the tools to easily deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and proactively manage medium to large business networks. Our PCM suite for small businesses provides all the basic tools to effectively manage your network.
Network Software Management Solutions
HP Networking Manager (PCM)
HP Networking Manager, a Microsoft Windows-based network management solution for managing HP Networking devices, is a free software package that can be downloaded from the HP Networking Web site. It provides all the basic tools needed to handle a network effectively, along with a 60-day trial version of HP Networking Manager Plus 3.10. HP Networking Manager 3.10 is a solution focused for small to medium-sized businesses that want to monitor basic device health, capture and browse SNMP and syslog events, and map network devices. With HP Networking switches and HP Networking Manager 3.10, users will gain superior return on management, security, choice, and flexibility.
Product overview:
- Free HP Networking device management software
- Auto-discovers, configures, and monitors devices
- Network topology and mapping
- Device alerts and troubleshooting
HP Networking Managers Plus (PCM+)
HP Networking Manager Plus is a Microsoft Windows-based network management platform that enables mapping, configuration, and monitoring. HP Networking Manager Plus 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 HP Networking security and wireless solutions, as well as extended third-party support, HP Networking Manager Plus 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.
Product overview:
- Unified management across entire network
- Configuring, updating, monitoring, troubleshooting
- Policy-based and multidevice management
- Proactive alert setting, automatic action taking
- Advanced traffic-monitoring capabilities
HP Networking Mobility Manager (PMM)
HP Networking Mobility Manager 3.0 provides a single point in which to plan, deploy, manage, and monitor a Networking wireless LAN (WLAN). As a plug-in software module for HP Networking Manager Plus, this powerful tool provides visualization of predictive radio frequency (RF) coverage and location of WLAN infrastructure, unmanaged (rogue) access points, and wireless clients all in the same map that can be created through imported floor plans. Monitoring network health is easy with an integrated, single-screen dashboard providing device or network-wide wireless network utilization and client activity. With HP Networking Mobility Manager 3.0 integrated seamlessly into HP Networking Manager Plus, network administrators can easily manage their wireless and wired network from a common, unified network management console.
Product Overview:
- RF coverage virtualizer
- WLAN monitoring, configuration, and reporting
- Health/performance dashboard views of wireless LAN
- Tight integration with HP Networking Manager Plus
Network Immunity Manager (NIM)
HP Networking Network Immunity Manager is a plug-in for HP Networking Manager Plus that detects and automatically responds to internal network threats such as virus attacks. Additionally, it provides central management of HP Networking Threat Management Services (TMS) zl Modules. It leverages security and traffic-monitoring features built into HP Networking switches such as sFlow, Virus Throttle, and remote mirroring technologies, as well as performs network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) to detect attacks. Optionally, it remotely mirrors suspect traffic to an IDS/IPS/UTM appliance such as the HP Networking TMS zl Module. This security tool provides visibility into internal network threat activity to help increase network availability.
Product overview:
- Intrusion detection
- Intrusion response
- Security management
- Reporting
- Flexible deployment
Identity Driven Manager (IDM)
HP Networking Identity Driven Manager (IDM), a plug-in to HP Networking Manager Plus, dynamically provisions network security and performance settings based on user, device, location, time, and endpoint posture. Identity Driven Manager provides network administrators with the ability to centrally define and apply policy-based network access rights that allow the network to automatically adapt to the needs of users and devices as they connect, thereby enforcing network security while providing appropriate access to authorized network users and devices. Identity Driven Manager is a powerful tool that allows network administrators to efficiently manage the users and devices connecting to their network.
Product Overview:
- Provides appropriate access to network resources
- Policy- and identity-based network access rights
- Dynamically configures security and performance
- Resilient architecture promotes high availability
- Integrates with MS Active Directory and NAP