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

Contents
1 Introduction to BIMS....................................................................................8
BIMS capabilities......................................................................................................................8
Resource Management.........................................................................................................8
CPE Group.........................................................................................................................8
Configuration Management...................................................................................................9
Compliance Center..............................................................................................................9
System Configuration..........................................................................................................10
Alarms Management..........................................................................................................10
Reports Management.........................................................................................................10
Before installing BIMS.............................................................................................................10
Accessing BIMS......................................................................................................................10
Exploring the BIMS Overview page..........................................................................................10
BIMS workflow introduction......................................................................................................11
2 Typical BIMS applications..........................................................................14
Prerequisites of BIMS applications.............................................................................................14
Example 1: Deploying CPE configurations in a data center through a BIMS zero-configuration
deployment solution................................................................................................................14
Scenario description...........................................................................................................14
Task analysis.....................................................................................................................15
BIMS operations ...............................................................................................................16
Quickly adding virtual CPEs to BIMS................................................................................16
Customizing a startup configuration file for the target CPEs.................................................17
Creating an automatic deployment task............................................................................18
Example 2: Deploying CPEs in branch offices.............................................................................19
Scenario description...........................................................................................................19
Task analysis.....................................................................................................................20
BIMS operations................................................................................................................21
Configuring BIMS information on CPE..............................................................................21
Importing CPE software to BIMS......................................................................................22
Creating a software deployment task...............................................................................23
Creating an automatic software deployment task...............................................................24
Example 3: BIMS working cooperatively with IVMS.....................................................................25
Scenario description...........................................................................................................25
Task analysis.....................................................................................................................26
Example 4: Using CPE additional information............................................................................26
Scenario description...........................................................................................................27
Task analysis.....................................................................................................................27
BIMS operations................................................................................................................27
Adding additional information........................................................................................27
Customizing a configuration segment...............................................................................28
Creating a configuration deployment task.........................................................................28
Example 5: Using Compliance Center.......................................................................................30
Scenario description...........................................................................................................30
Task analysis.....................................................................................................................30
BIMS operations................................................................................................................30
Adding a compliance policy...........................................................................................30
Adding a check task......................................................................................................31
Viewing the check reports...............................................................................................31
Fixing the violating configuration segments.......................................................................31
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