Network Management Center

Monitor and manage your network with a complete, integrated software solution.

An efficient, automated, secure network management software solution

HP Network Management software is a set of integrated products and solutions that simplifies end-to-end network management and connects key network performance indicators to business metrics. Realize efficiencies with network operations by combining deep network element management with business service priorities that contain costs and reduce ongoing maintenance expenditures. In addition, you can more readily adapt to increasingly complex environments, including data centers virtualization, the implementation of cloud computing and support for advanced services. The HP Network Management Software solution is integrated with the HP Executive Scorecard which is a key element of the HP IT Performance Suite, providing IT executives customized reports on the performance of their network assets.

Key features

Reduce costs, administrative overhead and planned and unplanned network interruptions
Securely manage more customers, departments or sites at lower cost
Prioritize infrastructure investments based on key performance indicators
Control growth and manage proliferation of cloud and virtualization
Automate Root Cause Analysis, compliance, diagnostics & remediation

Free network tools and utilities

HP offers FREE network tools and utilities that will not only make your job easier but also free up some of your valuable time allowing you to redirect your energy to more proactive network management activities. You do not have to own any other HP Software to gain value and insight from these free tools and utilities designed to help you troubleshoot, analyze and report on various aspects of your network environment.

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BSM Customer Testimonial: T-Mobile

Andy Kemp of T-Mobile USA talks about the benefit they derive from HP's Network Management Software solution Network Node Manager i (NNMi).

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Free network utilities and administration tools

HP Network Management Center provides a variety of free tools and utilities to help you report on, analyze, and troubleshoot various aspects of your network environment. These tools work well for all network sizes, with or without any other HP Software products. You can download any or all of the available tools to use in your environment absolutely free for as long as you wish. Each tool includes documentation detailing the system requirements, installation, and use, so you are up and running as quickly as possible. Also, please note that these tools are offered on a Windows platform only at this time. This could change in the future based on “your” valuable feedback.

We at HP believe that these tools will make your job easier by freeing up some of your valuable time so that you can redirect your energy to more proactive network management activities. Stop by often to check for new and updated tool offerings. Thank you for your interest in our free tools. We welcome your comments at hpfreenetworktoolsfeedback@hp.com.

HP Ping your Network

Ping each host in a given network and retrieve reachability and hostnames for network devices on any subnet. No need to depend on or build your own scripts. This tool provides its own UI.

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HP User Registrations Viewer for Microsoft Lync

If you have Microsoft Lync implemented then this tool will definitely prove to be invaluable. This utility provides a detailed "dashboard" for admins permitting them to quickly inventory Lync users and at the same time providing data on client versions, physical server connections of users, registrar pool information and lots more. It also is great for checking on compliance of the client side software.

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HP Network Port Scanner

Scan devices for open and used ports at a blazing rate with HP Network Port Scanner. With an easy-to-use UI, this tool helps you view the status of ports on scanned devices and enables you to export the data into a CSV file.

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HP VM Reporter

Save time using HP VM Reporter to list the Datacenters, ESX Hosts, Virtual Machines, Virtual Switches, and Distributed Virtual Switches that are managed by a specified VMware vCenter Server. In addition to inventory information, HP VM Reporter displays the following results:

Container relationships between the VMware objects
Recent events associated with the VMware objects
ESX Hosts only. The physical network connectivity for those hosts that support CDP

HP VM Reporter displays its results in an interactive local web page that enables you to scroll through results, sort results by column, and drill down within a table to view related information.

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HP Network Device Configuration Inspector

Focus on your network device configurations, not remembering device credentials! HP Network Device Configuration Inspector displays the current configuration of a network device in a familiar local editor for easy searching, saving, and printing. HP Network Device Configuration Inspector also highlights the configuration differences between two network devices in the comparison tool of your choice, facilitating verification that various aspects of the configurations match across network devices. HP Network Device Configuration Inspector currently supports access to Cisco IOS devices over telnet. It uses the TFTP protocol to retrieve device configurations using pre-stored device credentials.

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HP Network Flow Analytics

Measure your network traffic effortlessly with the HP Network Flow Analysis utility and extend your network monitoring capability beyond checking your network interfaces for utilization and errors. Without any complicated setups, quickly isolate hotspots like top talkers, top applications, and others. Get instant metrics via a set of "Treemaps" for nodes and applications by just exporting NetFlow packets from your network devices of interest to the NetFlow collector that the HP Network Flow Analysis utility provides. This small, flexible, and GUI-driven utility presents tons of capability. Answers to questions like “What apps are hogging my network?” are now at your fingertips.

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