H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center - Manual (Page 21)

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The Deployment Guide can also be launched from this page to restore the baseline
configuration to the device.
• Software Update Report—Provides operators with software update histories for all devices
managed in IMC. The Deployment Guide can be launched from this page to restore selected
software to the source device.
• Software Baseline Report—Provides a comparison of the current system software against the
configured baseline file. If differences between the baseline version and the current system software
exist, IMC notes these differences. The Deployment Guide can be launched from this page to restore
the baseline software to the device.
Using the Compliance Center
The Compliance Center feature supports organizations in adhering to compliance and standards. This
feature enables operators to create compliance policies and rules that check the configuration of devices.
First, the operator creates a compliance policy and creates check rules in the policy or imports check
rules from other policies. One compliance policy can contain multiple check rules that focus on different
check items.
Then, the operator creates a configuration Check Task that combines the check rules with the list of
devices (devices under IMC management only) and compares the device configuration against the
content configured in the rules. The check task can be executed immediately or periodically at a regular
interval. Once a check task is complete, operators can view the task results through Check History.
Network asset management
With Network Asset Manager, administrators and operators can track assets as well as changes to
assets.
This feature provides operators with a list of asset and drilldown capabilities into individual device details
or device audit details. Operators can also query IMC for specific audit records and manage the device
auditing process.
Real time fault management
IMC integrated network management system of fault, performance, auditing, security, and configuration
reduces the effort required to manage complex network infrastructures. This becomes apparent to
network managers with the integration of fault management.
With IMC, network managers have one database of network devices in IMC that drives various tasks of
network management.
IMC database is leveraged in all IMC functions, including fault management. No longer do network
managers have to maintain multiple databases for each functional area of performance, fault,
accounting, configuration, and security.
Like most IMC features, the alarm or event management system in IMC uses the existing device database
and couples it with sophisticated SNMP trap processing and Syslog parsing algorithms. This intelligently
generates alarms for notifying operators and support organizations when a network failure or an event
of interest occurs.
IMC uses rules to define what an event of interest is and which events generate alarms. IMC includes
pre-defined system rules and also provides operators with the ability to create user-defined rules for
generating events and alarms.