Service components

Service components are optional and purchased separately from the IMC platform. The IMC platform is the basis for implementing various services and must be installed before service component deployment.

IMC includes the following service components:

• User Access Manager (UAM)—Provides policy-based Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) services. UAM software extends management to wired, wireless and remote network users and enables the integration of network device, user, guest and terminal management on a single unified platform.

• TACACS+ Authentication Manager (TAM)—Provides basic AAA functions for network device or IT users for network device management security. TAM can assign users with different privileges, monitor login and command execution operations, and simplify user management.

• Endpoint Admission Defense (EAD) Security Policy—Endpoint Admission Defense integrates security policy management and endpoint posture assessment to identify and isolate risks at the network edge. The security policy component allows administrators to control endpoint admission based on an endpoint's identity and posture.

• MPLS VPN Manager (MVM)—Provides functions such as VPN autodiscovery, topology, monitoring, fault location, auditing, and performance evaluation, as well as VPN and service deployment. MVM also contains a traffic engineering component that helps operators monitor an entire network and deliver service quality by distributing suitable network resources as needed.

• IPsec VPN Manager (IVM)—Provides features for all aspects of IPSec VPN management for administrators to construct an IPSec VPN network, effectively monitor the operation and performance of the VPN network, and quickly locate device faults for full IPSec VPN lifecycle management.

• Voice Service Manager (VSM)—Provides a solution for reducing the voice network maintenance cost and improving maintenance efficiency. VSM is designed for enterprise-level voice networks.

• Wireless Service Manager (WSM)—Provides unified management of wired and wireless networks, adding network management functions into existing wired network management systems. WSM software offers wireless LAN (WLAN) device configuration, topology, performance monitoring, RF heat mapping, and WLAN service reports.

• Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA)—Is a graphical network-monitoring tool that provides realtime information about users and applications consuming network bandwidth. As a reliable solution for enterprise and campus network traffic analysis, NTA defends the network against virus attacks and applies varying levels of bandwidth traffic to different services and applications.

• User Behavior Auditor (UBA)—Provides comprehensive log collection and audit functions supporting log formats such as NAT, flow, NetStreamV5, and DIG. UBA provides DIG logs to audit security-sensitive operations and digest information from HTTP, FTP, and SMTP packets.

• Service Operation Manager (SOM)—Allows IT organizations to adhere to ITIL v3.0, including IT services such as policy design, operation, and improvement. Based on a unified configuration management database (CMDB), SOM provides configurable flows and options for self service, as well as management of asset configuration, change, fault events, problem recognition, and auto-generation of a knowledge base.

• Application Manager (APM)—Allows administrators to visualize and measure the health of critical business applications and their impact on network performance. With the available data, administrators can easily determine which business process is affected and which application issues to prioritize.

• QoS Manager (QoSM)—Enhances visibility and control over QoS configurations and helps administrators focus on QoS service planning by providing a robust set of QoS device and configuration management functions. It allows administrators to organize traffic into different classes based on the configured matching criteria to provide differentiated services, committed access rate (CAR), generic traffic shaping (GTS), priority marking, queue scheduling, and congestion avoidance.

• Service Health Manager (SHM)—Provides visual service quality management functions. SHM integrates the alarm, performance, NTA, and NQA data. It uses key quality indexes and service level agreements to monitor and measure service health.

• VAN Connection Manager (VCM)—Provides a solution for physical network configuration migration. VCM tracks the startup, stopping, and migration of virtual machines (VMs), and according to the latest VM location, VCM deploys a physical network configuration. VCM allows collaboration for physical and virtual networks. It also provides compatibility between physical and virtual networks of different vendors.

• Branch Intelligent Management System (BIMS)—Provides support for service operations, delivering high reliability, scalability, flexibility, and IP investment returns. Based on the TR-069 protocol, IMC BIMS offers resource, configuration, service, alarm, group, and privilege management. It allows the remote management of customer premise equipment (CPE) in WANs.

• Remote Site Manager (RSM)—Securely extends the IMC core platform capability to remote sites by deploying remote agents. These agents manage and monitor the remote network, and apply policies and configurations to the remote network devices on behalf of the central IMC server.

• Resource Automation Manager (RAM)—Provides a solution for customizing network services for users and automatically deploying network services.

• VAN SDN Manager (SDNM)—Manages OpenFlow-based SDN. SDNM allows you to manage an OpenFlow network through RESTful application program interfaces (APIs) provided by H3C virtual converged framework (VCF) or HPE SDN controllers. Combined with the device management, reports, and home page widgets functions in the IMC platform, SDNM also allows you to perform visual management and monitoring on the OpenFlow network.

• VAN Fabric Manager (VFM)—Provides an integrated solution for managing both the LANs and SANs in data centers by working with HP devices. VFM depends on VRM to obtain virtual machine (VM) migration information.

• Unified Communications Health Manager (UCHM)—Provides a solution for monitoring the health status of networks deployed with Microsoft Lync Server. It allows you to manage network resources including the Lync Servers, PSTN gateways, and Lync client endpoints.

• Intelligent Analysis Reporter (iAR)—Extends the reporting capabilities within IMC to include customized reporting. iAR includes a report designer, which can save designs into report templates. Report formats include charts. Reports can be automatically generated at specified intervals and distributed to key stakeholders.