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HP PCM Plus v4 Network Management Software Series

Product overview

HP PCM+ Network Management Software is a Microsoft® Windows®-based network management platform that enables mapping, network and device configuration, and monitoring. HP PCM+ provides security and extensibility for small to large networks with remote sites. Network-wide management control allows users to securely add, customize, and restrict network management access. With HP security and wireless solutions, as well as extended third-party support, HP PCM+ offers a single-pane management solution. With remote agent extensibility, the software can manage many remote sites with encrypted communications and firewall traversal. Customers will gain superior return on management, security, choice, and flexibility.
  • Automated network discovery, mapping, monitoring
  • Complete network/device configuration management
  • Network performance monitoring
  • Simplified network troubleshooting and reporting
  • Extensible platform with rich plug-in modules

HP PCM Plus v4 Network Management Software Series

Manageability

  • Easy-to-deploy and use network management platform — is easy to install and configure, requires no additional software or service, and often provides valuable network management information in less than 30 minutes; presents dashboards that provide administrators with an intuitive overview of network status and the ability to drill down into the details; utilizes wizards to assist administrators with some of the most common management tasks
  • NEW Web user interface—including mobile view — Web-based interface simplifies monitoring from anywhere and improves performance for distributed deployments; a mobile view is available to help ensure that administrators can monitor and troubleshoot from their mobile devices
  • Comprehensive network visibility — provides views of the network using maps or lists of devices; provides views across the network or by subnet, VLAN, or custom group; allows users to annotate maps with port or connection information as well as traffic levels
  • NEW Network services monitoring — provides proactive monitoring and reporting on the network services that businesses rely on (e.g., HTTP, DHCP, DNS, and FTP); provides an instant view of network service availability and response time
  • NEW PoE visualization and monitoring — real-time and historical view of network PoE availability and usage allows administrators to see when PoE is oversubscribed and proactively balance PoE devices across a PoE infrastructure
  • Device configuration monitoring — automatically monitors device configuration changes, providing a complete history of changes with the ability to quickly view what changes were made and when; with the ability to compare configurations across time or devices, PCM+ helps administrators to easily identify configuration issues
  • Device configuration changes — policy-based configuration makes deployment of new devices a snap and can identify devices that do not adhere to policies; PCM+ makes it easy to make configuration changes to one or many devices at the same time
  • Device firmware updates — automatically obtains new device firmware from HP and updates devices, allowing users to download the latest version or choose the desired version for downloading; network administrators can schedule firmware updates on one or more groups of devices via the easy-to-use Firmware Update Wizard
  • Event alerting and analysis — includes event monitoring and filtering capabilities that allow users to view, acknowledge, and sort network events; a summary displays device as well as PCM+ application events and categorizes them by severity, making it easier to identify where bottlenecks or problems exist in the network
  • Network performance monitoring — integrated traffic monitoring delivers detailed network performance views across the entire network with minute-by-minute views of the volume and content of traffic; using the sFlow traffic sampling technology embedded in many HP networking devices, PCM+ can provide detailed traffic views of up to 10,000 monitored segments
  • NEW IPv6 aware — identifies devices with IPv6 capabilities and IPv6 configured; is displayed on maps and inventory reports
  • NEW Network troubleshooting —
    • Network analyzer reports — evaluate network configuration and identify real and potential issues based on common misconfigurations
    • Network diagnostic data collection — gathers diagnostic information to assist with troubleshooting network issues; information can be used locally or easily attached to a support case, streamlining the support process
  • Endpoint awareness and VoIP device tracking — a device map view clearly displays which endpoints are directly connected to the device, including phones, cameras, PCs, and authenticated users; provides real-time location and inventory reporting for VoIP phones, including network details such as VLAN assignment, QoS setting, and PoE status
  • User-defined organization — user-defined custom groups allow administrators to create collections based on their unique organization of the network; provides the ability to view, take action, or apply policies across these custom groups
  • Script Wizard — allows customers or service providers to securely extend the PCM+ capabilities with custom scripts; handles device authentication and interactions, making the scripts secure and easier to create
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Security

  • Functional-based profile settings — allow network administrators to create new profiles and associate what type of information is available for those functions, providing more control of network access; profiles can be set at a global or regional level to give fine-grained permissions within the network, delivering more secure access to the network at all support levels
  • RADIUS authentication of network management administrators — can be configured to use the industry-standard RADIUS protocol to authenticate network management administrators; this approach provides simplified and standardized user administration
  • Firewall traversal — remote agents enable management data to securely transverse firewalls via a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection; once the system is connected, all management traffic uses the SSL tunnel to securely traverse the Internet between the PCM+ server and agent, allowing for the full management of devices behind a firewall at the remote site
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Integration

  • HP NNMi integration —
    • Advanced HP networking device management — can be integrated with HP NNMi to provide advanced HP networking device support alongside this industry-leading multivendor management platform, which now provides integrated support for most HP networking devices
    • Distributed deployment — HP PCM+ and NNMi run on separate management servers for increased performance, and coordinate management data and actions via secure communications
  • Configurable Integration Platform (CIP) — allows users or service providers to integrate custom devices or actions, and a CIP Wizard makes integration of third-party network devices, user-defined devices, and applications a snap; the CIP Wizard provides an intuitive step-by-step interface for integrating different vendor devices and applications into the PCM+ platform
  • NEW Support for international versions of Windows OS — runs on localized versions of Windows operating systems, including French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese
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Policy management

  • Policy creation and enforcement — allows you to create policies, set alerts, and take action to enforce network or device policies; network threats, bandwidth, or link problems can be mitigated by proactive policies and can be enforced with alerts and actions
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HP PCM Plus v4 Network Management Software Series

HP PCM+ v4 Software Platform with 50-device License (J9755A) HP PCM+ v4 Software Platform with Unlimited-device License (J9757A)
HP PCM+ network management platform for managing networks with up to 50 devices. The number of managed devices can be increased with the "Additional 100-device license" product HP PCM+ network management platform for managing an unlimited (up to the currently supported limits of the product) number of devices
Minimum system hardware 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® or Intel® Core™2 Duo processor or equivalent processor
2 GB RAM memory
60 GB storage
1000 MB NIC
For HP PCM+ v4 as a standalone application with one agent on the server, assuming a dedicated server		 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® or Intel® Core™2 Quad processor or equivalent processor
4 GB RAM memory
100 GB storage
1000 MB NIC
For HP PCM+ v4 as a standalone application with one agent on the server, assuming a dedicated server
Recommended system hardware 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® or Intel® Core™2 Duo processor or equivalent processor
2 GB RAM memory
120 GB storage
1000 MB NIC
For HP PCM+ v4, assuming a dedicated server with one agent on the server and including HP IDM, MM, and NIM		 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® or Intel® Core™2 Quad processor or equivalent processor
6 GB RAM memory
120 GB storage
1000 MB NIC
For HP PCM+ v4, assuming a dedicated server with one agent on the server and including HP IDM, MM, and NIM on the same server
Recommended software Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 (32-bit)
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) Standard or Enterprise Edition
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) Standard or Enterprise Edition
Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Professional or Ultimate
 Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 (32-bit)
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) Standard or Enterprise Edition
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) Standard or Enterprise Edition
Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Professional or Ultimate
Maximum ports simultaneously monitored per server 10,000 10,000
Maximum sFlow sampling ports per server 3000 3000
Maximum polling ports per server 7000 7000
Browsers Internet Explorer version 7 or later
Chrome version 12 or later
Firefox version 3 or later
 Internet Explorer version 7 or later
Chrome version 12 or later
Firefox version 3 or later
Supported platforms VMware ESX v3.5
HP Network Node Manager-i v8.10
VMware ESX v4
Microsoft Hyper-V
 VMware ESX v3.5
HP Network Node Manager-i v8.10
VMware ESX v4
Microsoft Hyper-V
Features Device autodiscovery
Topology and mapping
Usable troubleshooting data and alerts
Device configuration and management
Customizable and executable policies across groups
Multiple device configuration management and archiving
Creation and configuration of VLANs across the network
Traffic monitoring and analysis
Email/Pager alerts
SNMP trap forwarding
OpenView NNM integration
Application of policies by user identity
 Device autodiscovery
Topology and mapping
Usable troubleshooting data and alerts
Device configuration and management
Customizable and executable policies across groups
Multiple device configuration management and archiving
Creation and configuration of VLANs across the network
Traffic monitoring and analysis
Email/Pager alerts
SNMP trap forwarding
OpenView NNM integration
Application of policies by user identity
Notes Additional processing power may be necessary for extensive traffic monitoring. Some degradation in performance may be expected the greater the number of devices attached to the network. Specifications are subject to change.
  • Supports up to 2,000 devices managed by a single server. For networks with more than 2,000 devices, one or more remote agents are required.
  • For networks with more than 1,500 devices, HP recommends that all agents be remote from the HP PCM server.
  • Systems utilizing VMware are limited to networks with 1,200 or fewer devices.
  • Minimum system requirements for agent: 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon or Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent processor, 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of hard disk drive space, and capable of running either Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
  • Minimum system requirements for client: 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon or Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent processor, 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of hard disk drive space, and capable or running either Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Vista®.


 Additional processing power may be necessary for extensive traffic monitoring. Some degradation in performance may be expected the greater the number of devices attached to the network. Specifications are subject to change.
  • Supports up to 2,000 devices managed by a single server. For networks with more than 2,000 devices, one or more remote agents are required.
  • For networks with more than 1,200 devices, HP recommends that all agents be remote from the HP server.
  • Systems utilizing VMware are limited to networks with 1,200 or fewer devices.
  • Minimum system requirements for agent: 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon or Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent processor, 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of hard disk drive space, and capable of running either Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
  • Minimum system requirements for client: 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon or Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent processor, 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of hard disk drive space, and capable or running either Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Vista.
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HP PCM+ v4 additional 100-device License (J9756A)

HP PCM+ v4 add 100-dev License: License to add support for additional 100-devices to a PCM+ 50-device platform, multiple licenses can be used together and are additive (requires PCM+ 50-dev Platform)

Notes

Please refer to the "PCM+ v4 Software Platform License" for resource specifications and list of features.
  • The more devices that are managed increases the system resource requirements, therefore if using multiple "Additonal 100 device licenses", please use the "Recommended" specifications for resources

Compatible products

HP PCM+ v4 additional 1-year Maintenance for up to 50 devices (J9758A)

HP PCM+ v4 additional one year of maintenance - includes free product support via telephone or email and free software updates for the PCM+ v4 Platform; management server must be managing 50 devices or less to apply this maintenance

Notes

Extended maintenance includes all software updates for this product and free product support via telephone or email.
  • Maintenance includes the PCM+ Software Platform and any software plug-in modules; Mobility Manager and Identity Driven Manager

Compatible products

HP PCM+ v4 additional 1-year Maintenance for up to 250 devices (J9759A)

HP PCM+ v4 additional one year of maintenance - includes free product support via telephone or email and free software updates for the PCM+ v4 Platform; management server must be managing 250 devices or less to apply this maintenance

Notes

Extended maintenance includes all software updates for this product and free product support via telephone or email.

Compatible products

HP PCM+ v4 additional 1-year Maintenance for up to 550 devices (J9760A)

HP PCM+ v4 additional one year of maintenance - includes free product support via telephone or email and free software updates for the PCM+ v4 Platform; management server must be managing 550 devices or less to apply this maintenance

Notes

Extended maintenance includes all software updates for this product and free product support via telephone or email.

Compatible products

HP PCM+ v4 additional 1-year Maintenance for unlimited devices (J9761A)

HP PCM+ v4 additional one year of maintenance - includes free product support via telephone or email and free software updates for the PCM+ v4 Platform

Notes

Extended maintenance includes all software updates for this product and free product support via telephone or email.

Compatible products

HP PCM+ Mobility Manager v4 Software Module License (J9751A)

HP PCM+ Mobility Manager v4 Software Module License (J9751A)

HP MM helps you visualize RF coverage, monitor performance and events, identify rogue devices and locate clients via its heatmaps, and generate reports. Configuration and software change management are provided through PCM+ platform.

HP Mobility Manager is a software module to the PCM+ platform and does not have software system requirements in addition to those listed for the PCM+ platform.

Notes

J9751A is an enablement license and requires a base PCM+ license. Use J9751A with either an HP PCM+ v4 Software Platform with 50-device License (J9755A) or PCM+ v4 Software Platform with Unlimited-device License (J9757A).
  • The Mobility Manager v4 license is no longer based on device counts as it had been in previous releases.
  • PCM+ v4 will continue to count both wired and wireless devices (i.e., MSM controllers, managed APs, and autonomous APs) in its licensing scheme.
Upgrades for software modules are supported through the HP PCM+ platform. To upgrade HP Mobility Manager v3.10 to HP PCM+ Mobility Manager v4, purchase an HP PCM+ v4 additional 1-year maintenance license (J9758A, J9759A, J9760A, or J9761A).
  • If upgrading Mobility Manager v3 to v4, Mobility Manager v3 licenses will be converted to PCM+ licenses. For more details, refer to PCM+ v4 Release Notes and documentation.

Compatible products

HP PCM+ Identity Driven Manager v4 Software Module with 500-user License (J9752A)

HP PCM+ Identity Driven Manager v4 Software Module with 500-user License (J9752A)

Identity Driven Manager v4 software and license for managing up to 500 users

Features

Intuitive Explorer-style interface
OpenView NNM integration
Application of policies by user identity
- Auto VLAN assignment
- Auto set quality of service by user
- Auto set bandwidth assignment by user
Rule-based access rights deployment
Dynamic rights assignment based on:
- Time
- Location
- User system
Auto-discovery of:
- RADIUS servers
- Realms
- Users

Compatible products

HP PCM+ Identity Driven Manager v4 Software Module with Unlimited-user License (J9753A)

HP PCM+ Identity Driven Manager v4 Software Module with Unlimited-user License (J9753A)

HP Identity Driven Manager is a plug-in to PCM+ that dynamically applies security and performance settings based on user, device, location, time, and endpoint posture-- Unlimited-user license

Identity Driven Manager v4 software and license for managing an unlimited number of users

Features

Intuitive Explorer-style interface
OpenView NNM integration
Application of policies by user identity
- Auto VLAN assignment
- Auto set quality of service by user
- Auto set bandwidth assignment by user
Rule-based access rights deployment
Dynamic rights assignment based on:
- Time
- Location
- User system
Auto-discovery of:
- RADIUS servers
- Realms
- Users

Compatible products

HP PCM Plus v4 Network Management Software Series

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