edie209 Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Does anyone know of a tool for the HP procurve switches that would be simular in use to "jetadmin" for hp printservers, i.e config, browse all switches a central management tool. Cheers
plexer Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Used to be Toptools now they ship procurve manager 2.0 with the procurve switches. Ben
edie209 Posted October 4, 2006 Author Posted October 4, 2006 My procurves came with procurve manager 2.1 and its a time limited version hence I need something else is version 2.0 still available for download?
plexer Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 There was a time limited version Procurve Manager Pro on the CD's I've got but Procurve Manager wasn't. Ben
edie209 Posted October 4, 2006 Author Posted October 4, 2006 I have got it wrong I have the Pro version, so where can I get Procurve Manager and is it free more to the point
plexer Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 You can buy the non pro from HP as well as the pro. Also includes a 30-day trial version of ProCurve Manager Plus 2.1 Ben
plexer Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 telnet, the interface is all menus. They might be but that does allow you to centrally manage them from one interface does it? Ben
Geoff Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Is central management the issue, or will central monitoring be sufficent. If you just want to monitor switches something like Nagios or Cacti will be sufficent.
edie209 Posted October 4, 2006 Author Posted October 4, 2006 I want to be able to just check them all every now and then to make sure things are running as they should be.
mrforgetful Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 telnet, the interface is all menus. They might be but that does allow you to centrally manage them from one interface does it? Ben No, no it doesn't. But then, who has time to spend just monitoring
Ric_ Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Nagios and/or Cacti can do this for you. Indeed... mine even tell me how warm they are feeling
mrforgetful Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 I'm gonna have a look at that Cacti tomorrow I think, though it means taking a look at MySQL first!
plexer Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 mrforgetful: But then I said manage not monitor but either way you'd spend less time with a central management/monitoring solution than going into each device manually via telnet. Ben
edie209 Posted October 4, 2006 Author Posted October 4, 2006 I have just downloaded them and will take a look
Ric_ Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Nagios can be configured so that the device web page is displayed when you click on its icon so it's almost centrally managed
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