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Advantages of Using ProCurve Manager or ProCurve Manager Plus

More visual cues, using colors, status bars, device icons, and other graphical objects instead of relying solely on alphanumeric values

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You can operate ProCurve Manager and ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM and PCM+) from a PC on the network to monitor traffic, manage your hubs and switches, and proactively recommend network changes to increase network uptime and optimize performance. Easy to install and use, PCM and PCM+ are the answers to your management challenges.

PCM and PCM+ enable greater control, uptime, and performance in your network:

Features and benefits of ProCurve Manager:

Network Status Summary: Upon boot-up, a network status screen displays high-level information on network devices, end nodes, events, and traffic levels. From here, users can research any one of these areas to get more details.

Alerts and Troubleshooting: An events summary screen displays alerts to the user and categorizes them by severity, making it easier to track where bottlenecks and issues exist in the network. Alerts present detailed information on the problem, even down to the spe­ cific port.

Automatic Device Discovery: This feature is customized for fast discovery of all ProCurve manageable network devices. The user can define which IP subnets to discover.

Topology and Mapping: This feature automatically creates a map of discovered network devices. Maps are color-coded to reflect device status and can be viewed at multiple levels (physical view, subnet view, or VLAN view).

Device Management: Many device-focused tasks can be performed directly by the software, or the user can access web-browser and command-line interfaces with the click of a button to manage individ­ ual devices from inside the tool.

Features and benefits of ProCurve Manager Plus:

All of the Features of ProCurve Manager: Refer to the above listing.

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