HP 2600 - Manual (Page 31)

Selecting a Management Interface
Advantages of Using HP ProCurve Manager or HP ProCurve Manager Plus
PCM and PCM+ enable greater control, uptime, and performance in your
network:
■ Features and benefits of HP ProCurve Manager:
• Network Status Summary: Upon boot-up, a network status screen
displays high-level information on network devices, end nodes,
events, and traffic levels. From here, users can research any one of
these areas to get more details.
• Alerts and Troubleshooting: An events summary screen displays
alerts to the user and categorizes them by severity, making it easier
to track where bottlenecks and issues exist in the network. Alerts
present detailed information on the problem, even down to the spe­
cific port.
• Automatic Device Discovery: This feature is customized for fast
discovery of all HP ProCurve manageable network devices. The user
can define which IP subnets to discover.
• Topology and Mapping: This feature automatically creates a map of
discovered network devices. Maps are color-coded to reflect device
status and can be viewed at multiple levels (physical view, subnet
view, or VLAN view).
• Device Management: Many device-focused tasks can be performed
directly by the software, or the user can access web-browser and
command-line interfaces with the click of a button to manage individ­
ual devices from inside the tool.
■ Features and benefits of HP ProCurve Manager Plus:
• All of the Features of HP ProCurve Manager: Refer to the above
listing.
• In-Depth Traffic Analysis: An integrated, low-overhead traffic mon­
itor interface shows detailed information on traffic throughout the
network. Using enhanced traffic analysis protocols such as Extended
RMON and sFlow, users can monitor overall traffic levels, segments
with the highest traffic, or even the top users within a network
segment.
• Group and Policy Management: Changes in configuration are
tracked and logged, and archived configurations can be applied to one
or many devices. Configurations can be compared over time or
between two devices, with the differences highlighted for users.
• Advanced VLAN Management: A new, easy-to-use VLAN manage­
ment interface allows users to create and assign VLANs across the
entire network, without having to access each network device indi­
vidually.
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