HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) Valuable or Not?

I took over full management of the networking side of my companies infrastructure about a year ago and for switching we are a complete HP shop. I was reading about HP IMC a bit over the weekend and it looks interesting, but I couldn't find a lot of real world feedback.
I'd like to figure out if it is a valuable tool and worth the time to demo and seek funding for or if it is not as cool as it looks. Anyone got any thoughts to share?
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My IT department is getting Intelligent Management Center to replace some monitoring in SolarWinds. I want to know if Intelligent Management Center supports UPS's and what brands?

[email protected] wrote:Hello everyone! I am curious what everyone does in their standard client accessswitch closet, do you have UPS's in every closet or do you have nice surge suppressors to protect your client access switches? Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPad App
How big is your network, and how much money do you have to spend?
I've most recently been working on data-center sized networks, and they tend to be covered by large, center-wide UPS's with generator backup - the UPS and associated rectifiers isolate the protected kit from any chance of surges, so they're not needed on a rack-by-rack basis.
That's not a viable option for a smaller network or client base, so you sometimes need to think outside the box - one place I'm working on has two racks, one large UPS in the bottom of one rack and a PDU for each rack running the essential hardware (switches, servers, not monitors or non essential stuff) running off the one UPS.
There's no one size fits all solution - if you have widely distributed network closets/racks and don't want to put a UPS in each rack, your best bet might be getting switches with redundant power supplies and ensuring each supply runs off a separate electrical phase - since a lot of power outages only affect one phase at a time, you can often survive brief otuages on the secondary supply until the primary is restored.
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Any Alternatives To HP's ProCurve Manager / Intelligent Management Center

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Host not registering with the Management Center

Hello,
We have CSA MC v5.2. I have put a pre-defined CSA on a server (seperate from the CSA MC), which installed successfully and the MC sees the host.
However, although a pre-defined CSA is successfully installed on a host (non-server), I am unable to get the MC to see it. On the host, the CSA simply states that it's, "Not registered with the Management Center."
Please help in resolving this.
Also, is there a Windows Vista fix? Currently, I am unable to get the CSA to install on Vista.
~ Mike

If you look at the CSA log file, it will tell you an error code for why the connection is failing. Use the list below to determine what your error code means...
OKENA_STATUS_INVALID_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION = 2000,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_FAILED_GET_HANDLE = 2001,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_FAILED_TO_WRITE = 2002,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_FAILED_TO_READ = 2003,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_INVALID_TOPOLOGY = 2004,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_INVALID_INITIATOR_COMP = 2005,
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OKENA_STATUS_ICC_INVALID_COMP_ID = 2008,
OKENA_STATUS_ICC_INVALID_PAYLOAD = 2009,
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OKENA_STATUS_HOST_NOT_REGISTERED = 2014,
OKENA_STATUS_MISSING_CONTACT_INFO_PARAMS = 2015,
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Records Management Center 'Submit a Record' webpart does not work

So I built a records management center for our HR documents and it has been working great until this morning.
Suddenly the 'Submit a Record' webpart that came default with the page no longer works, it just refreshes the page when used. Any help in fixing the webpart would be appreciated, and failing that if I could get a link or instructions on how to make
a new one that would help too.

Hi MSGX, I'm guessing something may have been changed on the administration end. Check the following link for what to look for and possible fixes (ignore the error messages, I think your problem is similar and you're just not seeing them):
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RE: HP XP Media Center 2005 Ed will not boot from HP System Restore CD's

RE: HP XP Media Center 2005 Ed will not boot from HP System Restore CD's.
The following instructions about the "Code Purple" error FAILED. Error is still present.
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***PLAIN ENGLISH QUICK AND EASY FIX FOR ALL SYSTEMS****
***Windows 7 code purple or Windows Vista code purple***
With the code purple error on the screen, press shift+f10 (the shift key and the F10 key (at the top of the keyboard) at the same time) to open a little screen called a command prompt. (So, you get a little black screen with white text that says something about your Windows verison first and a little ways down you'll see "C:\>".   It's all ready for you to start typing.)
Type the following line, just as you see it here...
notepad C:\hp\bin\checkdmi\checkdmi.cmd
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You will see the text for the file listed in a window using a simple text editor.
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goto cleanup
So, whatever comes after, the first line looks like this...
goto cleanup
Save the file and exit notepad and restart your PC. You are good to go.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
RESULT: Same error and problem.
So, NOW THE SCENARIO IS THIS...[ And A CHALLANGE TO ALL HP Software EXPERTS]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1. The PC will not boot the System Restore CD's
2. The Original OS install and [HP_RECOVERY] disk sector has been severely damaged by
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How to integrate a Solaris x86 server on Sun Management Center ?

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Thanks

Hi Hisham,
hishooooo wrote:
Dear Gents,
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my problem is that i could not install the SMC agent on Red Hat Linux. as i could not find an easy document or steps to do so.
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Regards,
[email protected]
http://www.HalcyonInc.com

How to integrate Solaris x86 server on Sun Management Center ?

Hello people,
I want to integrate a Solaris x86 server on Sun Management Center platform.
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In speat of it, I try to install Sun Management Center 3.0 Agent for Solaris x86.
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/opt/SUNWsymon/base/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.8
I supose that in this directory, SunMC will install sparc binary files
At this point, I can't follow the installation and abort it.
Can anybody give me ideas to install and integrate my solaris x86 server on SunMC ?
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Sun Management Center and Reduced Core Installs

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Dear Gents,
I have one X86 Solaris Server configured and installed to be Sun Management Center Server.
successfully i could monitor the Sun Solaris Servers after i have installed the SMC agent on them.
my problem is that i could not install the SMC agent on Red Hat Linux. as i could not find an easy document or steps to do so.
could you guide please?
appreciate your support and cooperation
Best Regards
Hisham

Hi Hisham,
hishooooo wrote:
Dear Gents,
I have one X86 Solaris Server configured and installed to be Sun Management Center Server.
successfully i could monitor the Sun Solaris Servers after i have installed the SMC agent on them.
my problem is that i could not install the SMC agent on Red Hat Linux. as i could not find an easy document or steps to do so.
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Regards,
[email protected]
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