hp procurve switches

Procurve Manager - multihomed gotchas

We are almost exclusively a user of HP Procurve switches where I work. We have a wide range of models that we’ve used at both core and edge and have been happy with them over the years. One important part of our current toolset for managing switches is the HP Procurve Manager Plus management tool (another part is the invaluable tips on the evil routers website). Once you move beyond a certain amount of switches it becomes inefficient to manage them all by hand and tools like this which allow you to bulk manage error and performance logging and manage switches in bulk become invaluable.

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