Duration
5 days
Course Description
This training course covers monitoring and managing a computer network with HPE Intelligent Management Center Software Platform (IMC) version 7.3. This course discusses installation, adding devices, viewing and managing both firmware and configuration, managing alarms and VLANs. It also teaches compliance, ACL, virtualization, and performance management, plus Network Traffic Analyzer and Zero Touch Provisioning. The hands-on laboratory exercises monitor and manage ArubaOS Switch, ArubaOS-CX, Comware, Cisco, Arista, pfSense firewall, Windows server, VMware ESXi, and Linux server. This course is the combination of:
- H9TB1S: Managing HPE IMC I: Implementation Fundamentals (3 days)
- H9TB2S: Managing HPE IMC II: Compliance Policies and Performance Management (2 days)
Audience
- Network engineers and administrators
- Network architects and consultants
Prerequisites
Learners should have networking experience to get the most from this training course.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe IMC’s software structure
- Describe the protocols IMC uses to monitor and manage devices
- Discover devices automatically and add devices manually
- View the managed devices in multiple ways
- Manage device configurations and firmware
- Automate device configuration changes
- Monitor the network’s performance
- Discover the new Desktop User Interface
- Discover the Quick Service Process
- Discover and isolate faults in your environment
- Make configuration changes to your computing environment
- Authenticate users with 802.1X and UAM
- Manage the performance of your environment
- Increase the security of your environment
H9TB1S: Managing HPE IMC I: Implementation Fundamentals (Days 1 to 3) Course Outline
Module 1: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center
- Create a policy and have IMC check for a policy violation on managed devices
- Have IMC perform an additional action based on a generated alert.
Module 2: ACL Management
- ACL assistant feature
- Managing ACL templates
- Managing ACL resources
- Managing device ACL configurations
- Deploying ACLs using IMC’s ACL deployment wizard
Module 3: Virtualization Management
- An introduction to virtualization
- Adding virtual hosts to IMC
- Using Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)
- An introduction to managing virtual devices in VRM
Module 4: Performance Management
- Describe the types of performance metrics that a network administrator can monitor using IMC
- Analyze the performance characteristics being tracked by IMC
- View, interpret, and configure performance widgets in the IMC 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 5: Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- Understanding traffic monitoring and NTA’s capabilities
- Configuring networking devices for NTA
- Configuring NTA for traffic analysis and auditing
- Using host session monitoring
- Setting up and using interface monitoring
- Setting up NTA widgets on the home window
- Performing traffic log audits
Module 6: Zero Touch Provisioning
- Create configuration template for the device final configuration
- Create configuration template for the device ZTP initial configuration
- Create a Auto Deployment Plan and have IMC deploy Zero Touch Provision
- IMC will automatically add the new device.
H9TB1S: Managing HPE IMC I: Implementation Fundamentals (Days 1 to 3) Lab Outline
Module 1 Lab: Accessing HPE vLabs
- Task 1: Connect to Your Labgroup
- Task 2: Verify SQL Readiness
- Task 3: Launch IMC
Module 2 Lab: Installation and Initial Access
- Task 1:Log In to IMC and add an account
- Task 2: Manage operator accounts
- Task 3: Install a module
- Task 4: Configure Display Tiling
Module 3 Lab: Adding Devices
- Tas 1: Using auto discovery to add the switches
- Task 2: Using “Add Device” to add the two Windows servers
- Task 3: Adding Arista, pfSense and AOS-CX
- Task 4: Adding the ESXi server and the two Linux VMs
- Task 5: Convert devices to communicate using SNMPv3 and SSH
–– AOS
–– Comware
–– Cisco
–– Arista
- Task 6: Observe success
- Task 7: DBman backup
Module 4 Lab: MIB Management
- Task 1: View how IMC processes unknown private MIB traps
- Task 2: Import private MIBs and view how IMC processes private MIB traps
- Task 3: Escalate a trap to an alarm
Module 5 Lab: View Management
- Task 1: Access and Manage the Network Topology
- Task 2: IP Topology View
- Task 3: IP View
- Task 4: Custom View
- Task 5: Port Group
- Task 6: Data Center Topology
Module 6 Lab: Configuration Management
- Task 1: Firmware Backup
- Task 2: Firmware Baseline
- Task 3: Configuration Backup
- Task4: Configuration Baseline and Compare
- Task 5: Schedule device backup
Module 7 Lab: Alarms & Events
- Task 1: Understand the Alarm window information
- Task 2: Home Screen Alarm and Performance Viewing
- Task 3: Creating, Seeing and Alerting Alarms
- Task 4: Alarm Ack, Recovering
- Task 5: Event to Alarm
Module 8 Lab: VLAN Management
- Task 1: Manage Global & Device VLAN information
- Task 2: VLAN Deployment Task
H9TB2S: Managing HPE IMC II: Compliance Policies and Performance Management (Days 4 and 5) Course Outline
Module 1: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center
- Create a policy and have IMC check for a policy violation on managed devices
- Have IMC perform an additional action based on a generated alert.
Module 2: ACL Management
- ACL assistant feature
- Managing ACL templates
- Managing ACL resources
- Managing device ACL configurations
- Deploying ACLs using IMC’s ACL deployment wizard
Module 3: Virtualization Management
- An introduction to virtualization
- Adding virtual hosts to IMC
- Using Virtual Resource Manager (VRM)
- An introduction to managing virtual devices in VRM
Module 4: Performance Management
- Describe the types of performance metrics that a network administrator can monitor using IMC
- Analyze the performance characteristics being tracked by IMC
- View, interpret, and configure performance widgets in the IMC 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 5: Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- Understanding traffic monitoring and NTA’s capabilities
- Configuring networking devices for NTA
- Configuring NTA for traffic analysis and auditing
- Using host session monitoring
- Setting up and using interface monitoring
- Setting up NTA widgets on the home window
- Performing traffic log audits
Module 6: Zero Touch Provisioning
- Create configuration template for the device final configuration
- Create configuration template for the device ZTP initial configuration
- Create a Auto Deployment Plan and have IMC deploy Zero Touch Provision
- IMC will automatically add the new device.
H9TB2S: Managing HPE IMC II: Compliance Policies and Performance Management (Days 4 and 5) Lab Outline
Module 1 Lab: Compliance and Intelligent Policy Center
- Task 1: Connect to Your Labgroup
- Task 2: Launch and connect to IMC
- Task 3: Use “Compliance Center” for auditing
Module 2 Lab: ACL Management
- Create, deploy, and apply an Access Control List
Module 3 Lab: Virtualization Management
- Access and view IMC’s virtualization representation
Module 4 Lab: Performance Management
- Task 1: Examine and Tune Device Performance values
- Task 2: Access and Observe “Global Index Settings”
- Task 3: Use “Performance View” to monitor interface utilization
- Task 4: Access and Observe “Performance Option”
- Task 5: Utilize “Real-Time Monitoring” under “Performance Management”
- Task 6: Utilize “Real-Time Monitoring” under “Device Details”
- Task 7: Observe Real-Time data on topology maps
- Task 8: “Application Performance Manager” introduction
Module 5 Lab: Network Traffic Analyzer
- Task 1: Add Comware to NTA
- Task 2: Create a “Traffic Analysis Task”
- Task 3: Perform host session monitoring
- Task 4: Perform interface monitoring
Module 6 Lab: Zero Touch Provisioning
- Task 1: Prepare lab system for device zero touch configuration
- Task 2: Configure an Auto Deployment Plan for device zero configuration
- Task 3: Observe a successful ZTP-ADP operation.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.