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HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

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What is HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)?

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 9 ratings of HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Automated network device discovery

    Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked

    Category average: 8.3

  • Network monitoring

    Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Baseline threshold calculation

    Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Network mapping

    Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization

    Category average: 7.8

  • Customizable reports

    Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports

    Category average: 7.2

  • Wireless infrastructure monitoring

    Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients

    Category average: 7.6

Reviews

What users are saying about HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC).
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HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) - Monitoring tool

Incentivized
Bharath B
Lead Consultant in Information Technology at Infosys Ltd (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HP IMC is used for our network monitoring and as a configuration backup solution in our environment. Here we are using multiple instances of HP IMC for different locations as a monitoring and back up solution.

Pros

  • Monitoring works very well
  • Configuration backup works
  • Integration to third party tool is good

Cons

  • User interface can be made very friendly
  • Nothing I could think of apart from User interface

Return on Investment

  • Easy to implement
  • Easy to configure
  • Overall good monitoring tool

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Micro Focus Network Node Manager i, Nagios Core

For managing networks, with HPE IMC you can clearly see.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Stores equipment configurations to easily restore.
  • Quick notification of equipment status across the network
  • Trending information helps keep us proactive on possible issues.

Cons

  • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.

Return on Investment

  • HPE IMC is one of several tools we use to to ensure we meet our SLA with our customers.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer

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Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Multivendor flexibility.
  • Topology map features.
  • Backup configurations.

Cons

  • Licensing model is not good.

Return on Investment

  • IMC has so many aspects that in some ways we were learning the best way to use it as we deployed it.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

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Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Different Level of Severity Alerts
  • Get traps and syslogs to evaluate any critical problem.
  • Works great with HP switches.

Cons

  • Is not fully compatible with other vendor switches
  • Last version have some bugs and installation issues.

Return on Investment

  • If you have HP switches in your network, this software is a must have, because it going to check all switches status for you.
  • Excellent for export configs and push configs to the devices.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

HP IMC Awesome App

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Alarm notification
  • Reporting and inventory
  • Easy GUI and very good with compatibility with other switched network
  • Easy management interface and maps

Cons

  • More Cisco switch support such as nexus
  • SNMP walker tool needs a little improvement
  • Fresh look for the Gui

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact would be we are still purchasing licenses for the product has been very dependable
  • The cost has been within our budget which affects our entire business

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Data Center Network Manager

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Allot NetEnforcer