Not all console servers are created equal. With most, in-band management is the traditional model for network management with distributed gear and centralised management tools at the Network Operation Centre (NOC) but what do companies do when those centralised tools can’t reach the gear they are supposed to manage?
“What they should be considering is deploying out-of-band management, which seeks to remedy the challenges of in-band by adding a console server at the remote site connected to gears over the console port,” says Risna Steenkamp, ESM Business Unit Manager at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited Africa. “Using out-of-band, a remote admin can log into the console server and access the gear to attempt to fix the issue.”
Simply put, out-of-band management provides a secondary channel of communication to access and control the infrastructure assets of the production network.
But, says Steenkamp, going “beyond out-of-band” is where the true magic lives.
She says it helps to see beyond out-of-band as a network administrator with a crash cart. Uplogix is securely connected to managed physical or virtual devices and the cloud, continuously monitoring, taking…
