[124326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collapsing device management peripherals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Hicks)
Tue Mar 30 16:06:20 2010
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:05:32 +0100
From: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>
To: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7EEDE886-0E1B-4377-8DEE-889AFF00D37D@lixfeld.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> Right now, I've got a pull-out KVM connected to an external KVM
> switch that connects to the management ports on our blade centers,
> etc. I've also got a separate console server for our network devices
> with a modem for out of band.
>
> I'd love to be able to collapse these three devices into one. I've
> seen pull-out KVMs that have an integrated KVM switch, but I haven't
> seen anything that is also IP enabled to cover the console server
> component as well.
>
> Has anyone seen such an animal, by chance?
Check what OpenGear have to offer. I recall looking at their integrated
infrastructure management kit a while back.
P
