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Reading Time: 4 minutes iMC is able to display a list of devices and IP addresses in use. To get the hostname of those devices as well, the iMC DHCP agent can grab those from the DHCP server. During my test of this function, I found some obstacles. In this article, I will share my experience and describe the installation … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes This article describes the steps to sync AirWave AP’s to iMC. This does not consume device licenses in iMC. It makes it a no brainer because you can benefit from the topology views, which include the AP’s. This makes troubleshooting much easier. Why Sync AirWave AP’s to iMC Most of the ArubaOS based switches are … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Long ago, I configured my iMC server to use AD based operator login. you can read the post here. After having ClearPass up and running I will do the iMC operator login with radius. This post describes how this works. iMC Operator Login: Prepare ClearPass The first step is to prepare ClearPass. Those are the normal steps … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post, I will describe how you can configure SNMPv3 on Comware based and provision based switches. SNMP is used by management systems to monitor and configure network devices. As the information which are send and received by the SNMP speaking devices could be sensitive, you should have security in place to protect the … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, I will show, how to create iMC access templates, to configure the iMC access to devices. I will show, how to create a SNMP template, a telnet template and a SSH template. Those templates are used to define, how iMC should try to access the device and which credentials should be used. … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes This post will show, how to configure Tacacs device authentication in iMC TAM, on a Comware device and on a provision based device. If you would like to use Tacacs device authentication together with Active Directory, you can manage this by connecting iMC TAM to Active Directory, using this how to: How To: iMC Tacacs+ … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will show, how to sync user accounts from Active Directory and use them for iMC Tacacs+ to authenticate on switches or other network related devices. The iMC Tacacs+ server is available as a separate module for iMC. For this post I use the latest available versions for iMC and iMC Tacacs+ which … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post, I will show, how to use Active Directory for the iMC operator login. iMC is able to check the password of a network operator using Active Directory. You do not have to do the operator management within iMC and use AD instead. This is quite handy because you do not have to … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will show, how to UAM guest voucher modification is working. As you know, with the latest versions of UAM HP introduced the UAM guest voucher functionality. With the latest version of UAM, version UAM 7.1 E0302P06, which can be downloaded here: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JG752AAE This version includes the possibility to enrich the guest … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will share how to do a bulk modification of guest accounts in iMC UAM. This is currently not possible from the web GUI. You have to work on the DB instead. I figured it out by reverse engineering and testing. With the new iMC UAM version 7.1 it is possible to … Read more