HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Branch Intelligent Management System Administrator Guide

2 Typical BIMS applications
The following scenarios are provided to help you better understand how BIMS is typically applied
to aid in network management.
Prerequisites of BIMS applications
Before starting any BIMS procedures in the following scenarios, make sure you have:
• Installed and configured the IMC base platform and BIMS service components. The IMC
platform works as your network management system.
• Established administrator access to the IMC base platform.
• Verified that the CPEs to be deployed and managed by BIMS support the TR-069 protocol.
Example 1: Deploying CPE configurations in a data center through a BIMS
zero-configuration deployment solution
Scenario description
As a data center network administrator, you must manage a large number of access switches
supporting the CWMP protocol, and other complicated services. You use IMC BIMS to centrally
manage and deploy various types of these CPE devices. To unify your access CPE device
management, you deploy similar device models with the same startup configurations.
Next, you are assigned to perform a network expansion plan, which requires adding a batch of
CPE devices. These CPEs are the same model—HP 5820, and act as the same level access devices.
You use the BIMS zero-configuration CPE deployment solution to automatically deploy a startup
configuration file to the CPE devices, greatly increasing your efficiency and reducing your workload.
The network topology of the CPE devices for this example is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 Network topology of CPE devices—Example 1
NOTE: The zero-configuration solution enables you to configure and deploy CPEs from the IMC
BIMS client without performing any operations on CPE devices.
14 Typical BIMS applications