Item: HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
Rating: 10
Author: Bharath B

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HP IMC is used for our network monitoring and as a configuration backup solution in our environment. Here we are using multiple instances of HP IMC for different locations as a monitoring and back up solution.

Pros and Cons

Monitoring works very well
Configuration backup works
Integration to third party tool is good

User interface can be made very friendly
Nothing I could think of apart from User interface

Return on Investment

Easy to implement
Easy to configure
Overall good monitoring tool

Alternatives Considered

HP IMC is easy to install, implement and configure.
HP IMC has good features to monitor different network parameters.
HP IMC integration with third party vendor tool for ticketing purpose is easy.

Key Insights

Do you think HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)'s feature set?

Yes

Did HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm), Micro Focus Network Node Manager i, Nagios Core

Likelihood to Recommend

Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring.
Integration is easy.

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) - Monitoring tool

Overall Satisfaction with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)