Data centre connection manager

The HP ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager (DCM) is a rackmounted datacentre appliance designed to help formalise and automate the handling of workflows between network and server support teams.

Designed to automate, manage and virtualise common provisioning and support tasks, ProCurve DCM provides a centralised set of management and monitoring tools. Policy-based management of workflows can be set up in a flexible manner and access to information and management screens tailored based on job roles and responsibilities.

It is able to use RADIUS to configure network policies for standards-based network switches, as well as make configuration adjustments to a wide range of firewalls, load balancers and routers.

Security and quality of service policies can be configured for specific servers, with policies automatically being provisioned regardless of physical location. This allows simplified and consolidated management of servers, virtual servers, network connectivity and topologies.