HP Intelligent Management Center Licenses - Manual (Page 6)

Operation Mechanism
Implementation of a scenario similar to the one shown in Figure 2 would be as follows:
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Install an iMC Platform system in the corporate headquarters (hereinafter referred to as the
primary site iMC), and apply for the license specifying the number of agents manageable by
the primary site iMC.
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Install an RSM component (agent) at each branch office, which becomes a remote site of the
primary site iMC. During installation, you must specify the URL of the primary site iMC, enter
the administrator password of the primary site iMC, and configure the maximum number of
devices that can be managed by the remote site.
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After the installation, the remote site and its reachability appear in the remote site list of the
primary site iMC. A heartbeat is maintained between the primary site iMC and remote site.
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The primary site iMC automatically obtains information about devices managed by all remote
sites. When a device is added to or deleted from a remote site or device alarm status changes,
a relevant event is automatically reported to the primary site iMC.
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Two methods can be used to operate devices in remote sites from the primary site iMC:
Single-site operation: Enter a remote site directly from the primary site iMC. ◦
◦ Multi-site operation: Select devices from a device group and then operate the devices in
the group.
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System configuration information, such as operator, does not need to be configured on remote
sites, because they are automatically synchronized from the primary site iMC to remote sites.
In addition, remote sites automatically synchronize system configuration information from the
primary site iMC at regular intervals, including operator, operation group, device group,
SNMP template, Telnet template, and SSH template.
Precautions
In setting up your application, be aware of the following precautions:
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The primary site iMC and all remote sites share the license specifying the total number of
manageable devices.
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Make sure that the primary site iMC can communicate with all remote sites via HTTP or HTTPS.
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Connectivity between the primary site iMC and remote sites must be ensured. Otherwise, the
primary site iMC and remote site might fail to synchronize data until regular data
synchronization is restored when regaining connectivity.
Remote Site Operation
As shown in Figure 3 , the Remote Site list of the primary site iMC shows information about all
current remote sites, including current state, time of the last state change, name, description, license
usage. You can modify remote site information and perform synchronization operations.
6 Remote Site Manager