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

5 Configuration management
BIMS provides central configuration and management functions to facilitate managing and deploying
the CPE configuration files (or configuration segments) and CPE software. The Configuration
Management function enables you to:
• Manage configuration templates, including:
Customizing your own or importing configuration files or configuration segments to the
configuration template library
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◦ Deploying a configuration file or configuration segment on one or more CPEs
◦ Managing configuration files or configuration segments through querying, modifying,
copying, exporting, and deleting functions
• Manage the CPE software library including:
Importing CPE software to the CPE software library◦
◦ Deploying software on one or more CPEs
◦ Managing CPE software through the querying, modifying, exporting, renaming, and
deleting functions
• Deploy CPE configurations and software to CPEs using the Deployment Guide.
The Deployment Guide enables you to deploy configurations and CPE software to CPEs. With
this function, you can customize deployment tasks for the CPEs that are managed by BIMS.
For virtual CPEs, which are not managed by BIMS currently, you can create automatic
deployment tasks for them. When the virtual CPEs pass the BIMS’s authentication for the first
time, BIMS deploys the configurations or software to them immediately.
• Manage deployment tasks
BIMS implements CPE configuration and software deployment using deployment tasks. The
deployment task feature enables you to view the deployment status and results. Also, you can
manage CPE configuration and software deployment through task control functions, such as
suspending, running, resuming, and deleting operations.
• Manage CPE configurations through the Configuration Center
The Configuration Center helps you quickly query the current configurations of a CPE, back
up the configuration files of a CPE, and view the CPE configuration and software upgrade
history. In addition, the Configuration Center enables to you to specify a configuration file or
a version of CPE software as the baseline. You can restore the current configuration or software
to the baseline as needed.
• Back up CPE configurations
The Backup Configuration center enables you to create and manage backup tasks that perform
CPE configuration backup. You can create a periodical backup task to back up configurations
of specified CPEs as scheduled. In addition, this function enables you to manually back up
the configuration at any time.
• View historical backup records of a backup task
• Compare CPE configurations
With this function, you can compare the configurations of different CPEs, or compare two
configurations that are deployed to the same CPE.
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