HP ProCurve Threat Management Solution Design Guide 2009-04

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Design
Software and Hardware Selection
You might proceed through the life cycle a couple of times before you completely understand
how security threats affect your network and how you want to deal with those threats. And
because all networks are different and the threats affecting them are continually changing,
your approach may often be guided more by a combination of intuition and reasonable guesses
than by a definitive script. Further, your approach may change over time so that you can better
respond to emerging threats.
Your configuration will get very concrete when you move from the design phase to the
implementation phase. The HP ProCurve Threat Management Solution Implementation
Guide has specific, hands-on procedures for setting up and configuring your Threat Manage-
ment Solution, all according to the design you will create based on the process outlined in this
chapter. (The HP ProCurve Threat Management Solution Implementation Guide will be
released in May 2009.)
You can, however, start the design process with some tangible facts: the present configuration
of your network and the software and hardware you will need for your Threat Management
Solution.
Software and Hardware Selection
This section will help you create a list of the software and hardware you need to build your HP
ProCurve Threat Management Solution.
PCM+ Requirements
At a minimum, your solution will include HP ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM+) and HP ProCurve
Network Immunity Manager (NIM). These components allow you to implement the NIM
standalone deployment. (If you need more information about the NIM standalone deployment
option, see Chapter 2: “Concepts.”)
You must install NIM on the hardware-software platform that runs PCM+. In addition to NIM,
PCM+ can run other PCM+ plug-ins—HP ProCurve Identity Driven Manager (IDM) for access
control and HP ProCurve Mobility Manager (PMM) for wireless network management.
Table 4-1 lists the minimum hardware requirements for PCM; Table 4-2 lists the recommended
hardware configuration.
Table 4-1 PCM Minimum Hardware Requirements
Network Size CPU RAM Disk Space NIC
50 or fewer devices One 3.0 GHz Xeon/Pentium V or equivalent 2 GB 60 GB 100/1000 MB
51 to 350 devices One 3.0 GHz Xeon/Pentium V or equivalent 2 GB 60 GB 100/1000 MB
351 to 1200 devices Two 3.0 GHz Xeon/Pentium V or equivalent 4 GB 60 GB 100/1000 MB
1201 to 2400 devices Four 3.0 GHz Xeon/Pentium V or equivalent 4 GB 60 GB 100/1000 MB
2401 to 3500 devices Four 3.0 GHz Xeon/Pentium V or equivalent 5 GB 60 GB 100/1000 MB