Monthly Archives: November 2014

HP Networking and Cisco CLI Reference Guide

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Jeff Carrell

New to HP Networking products? Know Cisco IOS CLI and now work with HPN products? Or know Comware (from previous 3Com/H3C days) and now also work with HPN ProVision products? Or know HPN ProVision and now work with Comware? And … Continue reading →

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HP IMC TACACS Authentication Manager – AD/LDAP link

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Peter Debruyne

In this post an overview of the integration of the IMC TAM module with an Active Directory LDAP Server. The goal of this configuration is to ensure members of a specific Active Directory group (for example g_networkadmins) are granted a … Continue reading →

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Provision supports Portal Redirect for BYOD use

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Peter Debruyne

The HP IMC BYOD solution requires a network device to redirect guest or onboarding users to the BYOD web portal. This functionality could be provided using almost any Comware 5/7 device (L3 Switches, routers, VSR, but not by the L3-lite … Continue reading →

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Provision support for IRF MAD LACP Split brain detection

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Peter Debruyne

When you use IRF to group multiple Comware switches into 1 logical device, it is generally recommended to enable some split brain detection (split brain happens when all the stacking links are down). For the MAD LACP method, only Comware … Continue reading →

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Provision Premium License now permanent with K.15.16.0004

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Peter Debruyne

HP has released K.15.16.0004 firmware for the Provision asic switch series (3500/3800/5400/8200/etc). Next to some interesting new features (DHCP Server is now supported and it can be used for the IMC BYOD Portal Redirect), this firmware also enables the old … Continue reading →

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