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

Configuration Management
BIMS provides a central configuration and management function to facilitate managing and
deploying the CPE configuration files (or segments) and the software. The configuration management
portal integrates:
• Managing configuration templates
The configuration template library provides unified management of configuration files and
segments. You can customize your own, or import configuration files or segments to the
configuration template library to easily manage and deploy CPE configurations.
• Managing CPE software
The software library enables you to import a CPE software from your local client into BIMS to
deploy the software on one or more CPEs. In addition, you can manage CPE software through
querying, modifying, exporting, and deleting functions.
• Deploying CPE configurations and software to CPEs by using Deployment Guide
The Deployment Guide is a wizard that helps you deploy the configuration templates and
software stored in BIMS to the CPEs. You can use it to customize deployment tasks for the
CPEs managed by BIMS. You can also create automatic deployment tasks for virtual CPEs not
yet managed by BIMS. When the virtual CPEs pass the BIMS authentication for the first time,
BIMS deploys the configurations or software to them immediately.
• Managing deployment tasks
BIMS implements CPE configuration deployment and software deployment using deployment
tasks. You can use this function to view the deployment status and results. You can also drill
down into the step-by-step details for every CPE in a deployment task, and identify which CPE
failed a deployment and why.
• Managing CPE configurations through the Configuration Center
The Configuration Center helps you quickly query, back up, and view CPE configurations and
software upgrade history. You can also use it to make a configuration file or a version of CPE
software as baseline. You can restore the current configuration or software to the baseline as
needed.
• Backing up CPE configurations
You can use the Backup Configuration function to create and manage tasks for performing
CPE configuration backup. In addition, you can manually back up the configuration at any
time.
• Managing backup history records
You can use this function to view details and results of all historical backup records of a backup
task.
• Comparing CPE configurations
You can use this function to compare two configuration files.
Compliance Center
Compliance Center can help you check every target CPE device or CPE class using a binding
configured compliance policy. Once it finds a CPE which violates the compliance policy, Compliance
Center shows you the violation details in multiple ways. You can then fix the illegal configuration
segment items and solve the potential configuration and security risks in the network. Also, you
can generate the check results to a report automatically, allowing you to examine the check results
in detail at any time.
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