H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center - Manual (Page 23)

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1 Wireless Service Manager overview
Based on the IMC Platform, the Wireless Service Manager (WSM) component provides WLAN
management functions to implement unified wired and wireless network management. With WSM,
administrators can add wireless management functions to the existing wired network management
system, saving investment and maintenance costs.
WSM can implement centralized management of ACs, fat APs, fit APs, and clients. WSM also
provides the resource management and wireless topology management functions.
By cooperating with other IMC components, WSM provides the following features:
• Panel management
• Alarm management
• Performance monitoring
• Software version management
• Configuration file management
• Access user management
• User authentication management functions
WSM manages HP MSM series ACs, fat APs (also called autonomous APs), and fit APs (also called
controlled APs) through SNMP and protocol buffers, and manages Comware-based ACs, fat APs, and
fit APs through SNMP.
The following information describes the wireless functions provided by WSM.
WSM feature and wireless device compatibility
matrix
WSM can manage HP MSM series, HP Comware-based, Cisco wireless devices, and Aruba wireless
devices.
Table 1 shows the WSM feature and wireless device compatibility matrix.
Table 1 WSM feature and wireless device compatibility matrix
Module MSM series Comware-
based
Cisco Aruba
Fast Deploy WLAN No Yes No No
Resource Management Yes Yes
Only ACs, fit APs,
clients, radios, and
WLANs can be
managed.
Only ACs, fit APs,
clients, radios, and
WLANs can be
managed.
Wireless Topology Yes Yes Yes Yes
View Management Yes Yes Yes Yes
Locating Management Yes Yes No No