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The Opengear IM4200 enables IT, NOC and telecom professionals to securely manage the assets in their data and communications centers from anywhere in the world.
These data and communications centers are managed on a day to day basis with in-band protocols and applications running over production networks. There’s a wealth of in-band tools such as Telnet, RDP and VNC, and in-band applications like Nagios, OpenView, Open NMS, WebEx and GoToMyPC that enable the computers, network and communications infrastructure in these centers to be configured and controlled. However these devices also invariably have out-of-band ports so they can still be accessed, reconfigured and recovered in event of failure e.g. should an operating system crash or a network segment or incoming trunk connection fail (taking with it all the normal in-band management pathways).
System and network administrators and telecom engineers all have similar out-of-band management needs. They need secure network console (SSH, HTTPS etc) and serial console access to the devices (so the can reconfigure the routers, firewalls, servers, DSLAMs etc). They also need to be able to remotely power cycle the devices, using the selection of UPS, IPMI and power strip devices they have deployed. Each also has some unique needs e.g. sysadmins may need to use specific out-of-band applications, such as IBM Director and Dell OpenManage, to access the service processors (RSA, DRAC) embedded in their servers or remote SOL access to the BIOS in these servers.
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