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HP IMC Installation and Administration Professional Training Lab guide September 2012

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Contents Lab 0 How to connect to the IMC Network ............................................................................. 3

Overview ........................................................................................................................ 3

Lab 1 Install Intelligent Management Console ......................................................................11

Overview ......................................................................................................................11

Installation Summary>Install ......................................................................................12

Section B: Install MS SQL ..........................................................................................13

Section C: Setup DMA ...............................................................................................14

Lab 2 Discover Devices ...........................................................................................................15

Overview ......................................................................................................................15

Section A: Add a device to IMC ..............................................................................16

Section B: Add a subnet range to IMC ....................................................................31

Lab 3 Resource Tab ................................................................................................................33

Overview ......................................................................................................................33

Section A: Resource Tab ............................................................................................34

Section B: Network Topology ...................................................................................36

Lab 4 Configuration Backups .................................................................................................37

Overview ......................................................................................................................37

Section A: Immediate Backup ...................................................................................38

Section B: Scheduled Backup ...................................................................................40

Section C: Compare Configurations ........................................................................42

Lab 5 Software Upgrades .......................................................................................................43

Overview ......................................................................................................................43

Section A: Download Device CommWare ..............................................................44

Section B: Download CommWare from Web ........................................................46


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Section C: Upgrade a Device ...................................................................................47

Lab 6 Network Traffic Analyzer ..............................................................................................49

Overview ......................................................................................................................49

Section A: Configure sFlow on Switch using CLI ....................................................50

Section B: Configure sFlow on iMC .........................................................................51

Section C: Review Application Traffic .....................................................................57

Lab 7 ACL Manager ................................................................................................................58

Overview ......................................................................................................................58

Section A: Configure ACL to stop Pings ..................................................................59

Section B: Deploy ACL ...............................................................................................62

Section C: Test ACL ....................................................................................................63

Lab 8 VLAN Manager .............................................................................................................64

Overview ......................................................................................................................64

Section A: Configure Vlans .......................................................................................65

Section B: Review Vlans ............................................................................................67

Lab 9 Alarms ..........................................................................................................................68

Overview ......................................................................................................................68

Section A: Review Alarms .........................................................................................69

Section B: Acknowledge Alarms ..............................................................................70

Section C: Review Syslog ..........................................................................................71

Lab 10 Reports .........................................................................................................................72

Overview ......................................................................................................................72

Section A: Review Reports .........................................................................................73

Section B: Schedule Reports ......................................................................................74

Lab Guide


Lab 0 How to connect to the IMC Network Overview In this lab, you will complete the following tasks:

• How you access the IMC Network • Overview of the IMC Network

Section A - How to access the IMC Network

To access the IMC Network follow the steps below

1. Access the following URL http://labs.usa.hp.com 2. Login with the details provided



Section B - Network Infrastructure Details

Each POD consists of two IMC Servers, Server A and Server B which are then connected to a host of switches. See the diagram below to show how the Servers are connected to the switches and note the interface connections.

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The table below shows the equipment on the network for each POD and interface connections

Note both the IMC Servers and all Switches are accessed via the Console Port

SYSTEM NAME

LAB DEVICES IP ADDRESS MASK

Server A Windows 2008 R2 Server

192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

CISCO A Cisco 3750 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0

HP 5800 D HP 5800 192.168.1.20 255.255.255.0

HP 3500 F HP 3500 192.168.1.30 255.255.255.0

PC A PC A 192.168.1.40 255.255.255.0

Server B Windows 2008 R2 Server

192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0

CISCO B Cisco 3750 192.168.2.10 255.255.255.0

HP 5800 C HP 5800 192.168.2.20 255.255.255.0

HP 3500 E HP 3500 192.168.2.30 255.255.255.0

PC B PC A 192.168.2.40 255.255.255.0

Please note that these are sample IP addresses on the IMC Servers and Switches, HPVL allows you to modify these addresses according to your environment.



Section C - Getting the IMC Network ready

Follow the steps below to set up your network ready for IMC

1. Connect to your IMC Server and set an IP address as per the table above or to suit your requirements. Note DO NOT TOUCH THE IP ADDRESS MARKED DO NOT MODIFY

2. Connect to each switch and reset the switch to factory defaults

Cisco Switch – erase start-up configuration

HP A-Series – reset saved-configuration

HP E Series – erase start-up configuration

3. Connect to your switches and ensure that the interfaces on each Switch as per the Network Diagram on Page 4 are in a UP state

Cisco Switch:

• Go to enable mode • Go to conf t mode • show interfaces status • If interfaces are down need to do a “no shutdown”

HP A-Series:

• From System View display interface brief • If interfaces are down need to do a “undo shutdown”

HP E-Series:

• Go to conf mode • show interface brief • If interfaces are down need to do a “interface x enable”

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4. Ensure that all interfaces are untagged members of VLAN 1initially

Cisco Switch: show vlan brief

HP A Switch: display vlan all

HP E Switch: show vlans

5. Assign an IP address on VLAN 1 on each Switch and ensure that the VLAN is in a UP state as follows, use the table to on Page 5 & 6 to assign IP addresses or choose IP addresses to suit your requirements.

Cisco Switch: interface vlan 1

ip address 192.168.1.1x 255.255.255.0

show ip interface brief

HP A Switch: interface vlan 1

[interface vlan 1] ip address 192.168.1.2x 24

display ip interface brief

HP E Switch: vlan 1 ip address 192.168.1.3x 255.255.255.0

show vlan ip

6. Perform a PING from the IMC Server to each Switch to ensure that they are reachable



7. Enable Telnet on each switch

Cisco Switch:

username <name> privilege <15> password <password>

line vty 0 4

login local

HP A Switch:

local-user <username>

password simple <password>

service-type telnet level 3

user-interface vty 0 4

[user-interface vty 0 4] authentication-mode scheme

HP E Switch

password manager user-name <name> plaintext <password>

password operator user-name <name> plaintext <password>

Save configuration on all of your switches, rename the CFG file to imc.cfg

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Section D - Configuring SNMP for IMC

Before you can discover your devices in IMC you need to create new read/write community strings on your switches

Note the Trap Destination address for IMC will be added when IMC discovers the devices

Cisco Switch:

snmp-server community <new string> ro

snmp-server community <new string> rw

snmp-server location <your location>

snmp-server contact <your contact>

snmp-server enable traps

snmp-server host <IMC IP address> version v1 <public community string>

HP A Switch:

snmp-agent community read <new string>

snmp-agent community write <new string>

snmp-agent sys-info location <your location>

snmp-agent sys-info contact <your contact>

snmp-agent traps enable

snmp-agent sys-info version all



HP E Switch:

snmp-server community <new string> operator restricted

snmp-server community <new string> manager unrestricted

snmp-server location <your location>

snmp-server contact <your contact>

Section E - Configuring your Switches to point to the IMC Syslog Server

IMC has a built in Syslog server that is enabled by default, in order to send Syslog events from your switches to IMC you need to point your switches to the IMC server as follows:

Cisco Switch: logging <ip address of IMC server>

HP A Switch: info-center loghost <ip address of IMC server>

HP E Switch: logging <ip address of IMC server>

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Lab 1 Install Intelligent Management Console Overview IMC Standard version 5.0 and SQL Express 2008 have already been installed and IMC is running on Server A and Server B in each POD

In this LAB the Instructor will demonstrate the installation of IMC and the Embedded SQL Express 2008 database on the Instructor PC to guide you through the installation process and go through some of the pointers below during the installation.

The IMC Installation for this course has all of the base IMC Components and the SQL Database on the same server, use the pointers below as discussion items between you and the Instructor.

- Identify the IMC installation requirements i.e. Microsoft Net Framework and at least 512MB of memory

- Identify the IMC components and ensure that all components are checked at the time of deployment

- Since there is no SQL Client or existing SQL database on this machine IMC proceeds to install the embedded database i.e. SQL Express

- The embedded database has a limit of 10GB

- Option to change the default ports 8080 and 8443 at the time of install

- Once installed launch the Deployment Monitoring Agent (DMA) and click on Start to start IMC

- Go to the Process tab and see all of the processes starting, the last process to start is jserver.exe

- Explore the Environment tab in particular the Database version and the Back Up and Configuration tab



Installation Summary>Install

Installation Summary>Install

Batch Deploy>OK

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Section B: Install MS SQL

STEP 1 Install MS SQL 2008 Express (20 min)

Database Configuration Info>Pick Install Embedded Database>Next

Configure Web Service Port>Deploy

Intelligent Deployment Monitoring Agent (DMA)>Pick View readme file/ Start iMC Server>OK



Section C: Setup DMA

STEP 1 Setup DMA for automatic start

Intelligent Deployment Monitoring Agent (DMA)>Pick automatically start the services when the OS starts>Start IMC

End of IMC lab

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Lab 2 Discover Devices Overview

In this lab, you will complete the following tasks:

Configure an Operator

Add a device

Discover a network

Review your network



Section A: Add a device to IMC

STEP 1 Login into IMC

WindowsClient

Open Browser>http://<Windows Server>:8080

Operator: admin

Password: admin

STEP 2 Become familiar with your IMC installation

Review the different Tabs

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Define SNMP in accordance with the SNMP Version and Community Strings created in LAB 0

WindowsClient-IMC

System>Resource Management>SNMP Template

Default



STEP 3 Define Telnet in accordance with the steps in LAB 0

WindowsClient-IMC

System>Resource Management>Telnet Template

Add

Name: MYTEMPLATE

Authentication Mode: Username and Password

Username: <As defined in LAB0>

Password: <As defined in LAB0>

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Define SSH – This is optional, if you configure an SSH Template you will first need to enable SSH on your Switches and define a username and password and change the Login Type in IMC to SSH instead of Telnet.

WindowsClient-IMC

System>Resource Management>SSH Template

Add

Name: ADMIN

Authentication Mode: Username and Password

Username: admin

Password: hp



STEP 4 Define Device Group

WindowsClient-IMC

System>Group Management>Device Group

Add

Group Name: PodX

Description: Pod X equipment

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STEP 5 Define an Operator

WindowsClient-IMC

System>Operator Management>Operator

Add

Login Name: StudnetPodX

Description: Student PodX

Authentication Type: Password

Password: hp

Confirm Password: hp

Operator Group: Maintainer Group

OK



Define Manageable Product: StudnetPodX

Pick: PodX

OK

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STEP 6 Add your HP A-Series Switch device

WindowsClient-IMC

Resource>Add Device>

Host Name IP: <HP A Series Switch>

Login Type: Telnet



Telnet Setting>Configure

Pick>Select an Existing Template

OK

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STEP 7 Review HP A Switch details

Device Details



Discover what each action does except- Un manage and Delete

Is there any CPU Utilization data?

______________________________________________

Is there any Memory Utilization data?

____________________________________________

Is there any Device Response Time data?

________________________________________

Is there any Unreachability data?

________________________________________________

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STEP 8 Logout and log back in as studentpodx

WindowsClient-IMC

Logout


Operator: studentpodx

Password: hp

Why is it empty? How do we fix it?



STEP 9 Logout and log back in as admin


Operator: admin

Password: admin

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STEP 10 Add HP A Series Switch to Device Group Managed by studentpodX

System> Device Group> All Devices

Pick: <HP A-Series Switch IP address>

Pick: <PodX>

OK



STEP 11 Logout and log back in as studentpodx

WindowsClient-IMC

Logout


Operator: studentpodx

Password: hp

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Section B: Add a subnet range to IMC

STEP 1 Add your POD subnet to IMC or whatever IP address has been chosen

Resource>Auto Discovery

Start IP: 192.168.1.10 or 192.168.2.10 or whatever IP address has been chosen

End IP: 192.168.1.50 or 192.168.2.50 or whatever IP address has been chosen

Pick: Automatically register to receive…

SNMP Read: public (specific to your SNMP Template)

SNMP Write: private (specific to your SNMP Template)

Telnet Authentication: Username + Password

Telnet Username: admin (Specific to your Telnet Template)

Telnet Password: hp (Specific to your Telnet Template)

Schedule: Never

Add

POD Subnet Range

1 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.50

2 192.168.2.10 to 192.168.2.50



Auto Discovery

End of Discovery lab

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Lab 3 Resource Tab Overview


View Snapshot

Review Network Topology

Review Device Status

Review Device Details



Section A: Resource Tab

STEP 1 View SnapShot

Resource

Are all of your discovered devices listed? ______________

What color is/are the device headings? ______________

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How many of the following do you have in your network?

Routers __________ Switches ________ Servers _________ Desktops _______ Others_______

Is there any CPU Utilization data? ______________________________________________

Is there any Memory Utilization data? ____________________________________________

Is there any Device Response Time data? ________________________________________

Is there any Unreachability data? ________________________________________________

Is there any Incoming Interface Bandwidth Utilization data? __________________________

Is there any Outgoing Interface Bandwidth Utilization data? ___________________________



Section B: Network Topology

STEP 1 View Network Topology

Resource>Network Topology

My Network View

End of Resource Tab lab

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Lab 4 Configuration Backups Overview


Backup configuration for a Device, immediately

Schedule Backup of Device configuration

Compare Device configurations



Section A: Immediate Backup

STEP 1 Review Device Details of the Switches

Resource>Switches

Device Detail>Configuration Management

Click here to backup configuration file of the device now

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STEP 2 Add remaining devices

Service>Configuration Center

Select All

Backup Configuration



Section B: Scheduled Backup

STEP 1 Generate Automatic Backups

Resource>Switches>HP A-Series Switch>Device Detail>Configuration Management

Click here to quickly add an auto backup device

Name: Daily

Operation Frequency: Every Day 23:30:00

Description: Every Day at 11:30pm

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STEP 2 Add all devices to Daily Backup

Service>Configuration Center>Auto Backup Plan

Daily



Section C: Compare Configurations

STEP 1 Compare Access Switch Configurations

Service>Configuration Centre>Compare Configuration

Select Device: Switch-XA

Select Device: Switch-XB

OK

End of Configuration Backups lab

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Lab 5 Software Upgrades Overview


Backup Software from Devices

Download Software from Web

Upgrade/ Downgrade for Devices



Section A: Download Device CommWare

STEP 1 Import CommWare from Devices

Service>Configuration Center>Software Library

Add

Pick: Import from Device

Add Device

Select ALL

OK

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Section B: Download CommWare from Web

STEP 1 Download CommWare

The software can be found on the IMC Server machines in the directory called 5800 Software.

STEP 2 Add imported File

Service> Software Library>Import Software

Browse (to File)

OK

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Section C: Upgrade a Device

STEP 1 Upgrade Switch 5800 Switch

Service>Configuration Center>Software Library

Deploy

Pick: Software for 5800

Set the Current Running Software as Backup…

Restart Device after Deployment

Next

Task Name: Update Switch 5800

Schedule Time: Immediate

Schedule Sequence: Concurrent

Task Description: reload code

OK



Finish

Validate Execution

If you have speakers, the Alarms will actually be heard of the device being rebooted, we’ll get to Alarms soon…

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Lab 6 Network Traffic Analyzer Overview


Configure Device to provide sFlow

Configure iMC NTA to collect

Review Data gathered

Use the TFTP Gen Traffic generation tool in the C:/KITS directory on IMC Server and IMC Server B to generate traffic for NTA.

Note you can also kick off a back up configuration on a switch to generate traffic also.



Section A: Configure sFlow on Switch using CLI

STEP 1 Telnet or Console into SwitchXA

STEP 2 Configure sFlow on Server and PC ports

HP A Series Switch 5800

sflow collector <Integer 1-10> ip <IMC IP Address>

sflow agent ip <Switch IP address>

interface GigabitEthernet 1/0/1

sflow enable inbound

sflow enable outbound

sflow sampling-rate 1000

interface GigabitEthernet 1/0/2 – This is the interface that you wish to monitor sflow traffic on

sflow counter collector <id of collector>

Optional parameters are Sampling Rate and Sampling Mode

STEP 3 Verify sflow Port

Switch 5800

display sflow

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Section B: Configure sFlow on iMC

STEP 1

The software can be found on the IMC Server machines in the directory called NTA Module.

STEP 2 Install and Deploy NTA (may take up to 15 minutes)

DMA>Install point to install/windows/components

Locate unzipped NTA install directory

Batch Deploy all Components



OK

STEP 3 Configure NTA device on iMC

Service>Traffic Analysis and Audit>Settings

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Device Management

Select Switch 5800

STEP 4 Add Device to Server Management

Server Management

Modify



Pick: Switch 5800

Deploy

Return

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STEP 5 Add interfaces to Task Management

Traffic Analysis Task Management>Add>Interface

Task Name: NTA test

Task Description: NTA test

Select Interface Information

Pick: Interfaces as per Network Diagram on Page 5 these will be interfaces that are connected to Server A and Server B

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Section C: Review Application Traffic

STEP 1 Review Task

Traffic Analysis Task Management>Interface Traffic>NTA Test

End of Network Traffic Analyzer lab



Lab 7 ACL Manager Overview


Configure an ACL

Deploy ACL

Test ACL

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Section A: Configure ACL to stop Pings

STEP 1 Configure ACL on the Switch 5800

Service>ACL Management>Quick Start

ACL Resources>Add

ACL Identity Type: Number

ACL Type: Advanced

ACL Identifier: 3001

ACL Resource Name: BlockPing



ACL Identifier 3001>Add

Add Rule

Protocol: ICMP

Action: deny

Source Address: All

Destination Address: All

OK

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Add Rule

Protocol: ICMP

Action: deny

Source Address: All

Destination Address: All

OK



Section B: Deploy ACL

STEP 1 Deploy 3001 ACL onto HP A-Series Switch 5800

Deploy

Select HP A-Series Switch 5800

Select 3001

Next

Deploy

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Section C: Test ACL

STEP 2 Ping HP A-Series Switch

Ping HP A-Series Switch from any Device

End of ACL Manager lab



Lab 8 VLAN Manager Overview


Configure VLANs

Deploy VLANs

Review VLANs

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Section A: Configure Vlans

STEP 1 Add Vlans

Service>VLAN Management>Quick Start

Global VLAN

Add VLAN

VLAN ID: 11

VLAN NAME: VLAN 11

Submit

Back

POD VLANS

1 11,21,31

2 12,22,32

3 13,23,33

4 14,24,34



STEP 2 Repeat Step 1 for remaining VLANS

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Section B: Review Vlans

STEP 1 View Vlans

Service>VLAN Management>VLAN Topology

VLAN View

VLAN 11

End of VLAN Manager lab



Lab 9 Alarms Overview


Review Alarms

Acknowledge Alarms

Review Syslog

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Section A: Review Alarms

STEP 1 View Alarms

Status Bar>Alarm

Pick: Any Alarm greater than Zero



Section B: Acknowledge Alarms

STEP 1 Accept Alarm

Pick: Any Alarm

Click Acknowledge

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Section C: Review Syslog

STEP 1 View Syslog

End of Alarms lab



Lab 10 Reports Overview


Review Device Reports

Review Capacity Reports

Review Inventory Reports

Schedule Report delivery via email

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Section A: Review Reports

STEP 1 Review Reports

Report>Report Template List

Capacity Report

Changes Report

Inventory Report



Section B: Schedule Reports

STEP 1 Schedule Reports

Report>Add Scheduled Report

Select>Inventory Report

End of Reports lab

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