HP Identity Driven Manager Software Series - Manual (Page 8)

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About ProCurve Identity Driven Manager
Introduction
Introduction
Network usage has skyrocketed with the expansion of the Internet, wireless,
and convergence technologies. This increases the burden on network manag-
ers working to control network usage. Also, the complexity of large networks
makes it difficult to control network access and usage by individual users.
ProCurve Identity Driven Manager (IDM) is an add-on module to the ProCurve
Manager Plus (PCM+) application that extends the functionality of PCM+ to
include authorization control features for edge devices in networks using
RADIUS servers and Web-Authentication, MAC-Authentication, or 802.1x
security protocols.
Using IDM simplifies user access configuration by automatically discovering
RADIUS Servers, Realms, and users. You can use IDM to monitor users on the
network, and to create and assign access policies that work to dynamically
configure edge devices (wired and wireless) and manage network resources
available to individual users. Using IDM, access rights, quality of service
(QoS), bandwidth throttling, ACLs, and VLAN enrollment are associated with
a user and applied at the point of entry or "edge" of the network.
Figure 1-1. ProCurve Identity Driven Manager home