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HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
Notes and fixes for HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC): adding devices, SNMP access errors, alarm tuning, upgrades and Hyper-V monitoring.
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) is a network management station with a difference. I’ve installed it at around 15 customer sites, and its vendor-agnostic approach makes it a good fit for networks with kit from several manufacturers. I’ve used it to monitor Cisco, HPE, Aruba, Juniper, Fortinet, WatchGuard, Blue Coat, Citrix and Windows servers. If a device supports SNMP, IMC can usually manage it.
It does have drawbacks. It’s easy to get lost in the interface and to lose track of pages you swear were there a second ago. Like any management station, it needs ongoing tuning to get the best out of it.
Licensing tip: HPE offers a 60-day trial. Unless you need the Manager of Managers (MoM) features, the Standard edition is usually enough rather than Enterprise. The Standard licence includes 50 devices, and a stacked switch counts as one device.
These guides were written against IMC 7.0 to 7.2. Menu paths and error messages may differ slightly on current releases.
- Adding Devices to HPE IMC with Access Parameter Templates How to add network devices to HPE IMC properly: create SNMP and SSH access parameter templates first, then discover devices manually.
- Fixing "Device Denied SNMP Access" Traps in HPE IMC What causes the HPE IMC "Device Denied SNMP Access" and "Authentication Failure" traps, and how to fix them by checking credentials and testing with snmpwalk.
- HPE IMC Installation and Upgrade Errors (and Fixes) Fixes for common HPE IMC install and upgrade errors: .NET 3.5 source files not found, jdk folder in use, "Reading or Writing file failed", java-monitor configurations, and failed database connections.
- Monitoring Hyper-V Hosts in HPE IMC with VRM (without SCVMM) How to add a Microsoft Hyper-V host to HPE IMC and monitor it with the Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) module, without needing System Center VMM.
- Tuning Link Up/Down Flap Alarms in HPE IMC How to investigate HPE IMC "Link UP / Link DOWN had 3 intermittent failures" alarms and adjust the trap filter threshold to reduce false positives.