Today's telecommunications offices use a variety of equipment with a wide range of remote management access methods. Many devices have a secure web console; others support a text serial console; while many carrier-grade servers have embedded computers with VNC/ RDP/X graphical support and IPMI or proprietary (ILO, ALOM) access to service processors.
Today's telecommunications infrastructure has high availability built in. Even in their smaller sites, the equipment typically is powered from extensive 48V battery banks which are supplied from the AC mains - which in turn is then backed up with local generator sets. This provides significantly higher supply reliability than the UPS-based systems found in the typical data center.
However many of the newer computing devices in today's telco run complex operating systems and new applications, and they have the potential to become unstable or fail. Opengear’s robust console managers mitigate the potential for such a disaster. The CM4116-48V and CM4148-48V offers a secure remote management appliance that operates within the stable -48V DC telco power infrastructure.
The Secure Tunneling server which is embedded in each CM41xx-48V console server, provides text, web browser, RDP, VNC and a host of other graphical sessions to remote equipment through SSH tunnels with strong authentication and encryption. This guarantees secure remote management of Ethernet attached devices or serial consoles on telco-grade equipment. The CM41xx-48V provides secure access and logging of console text with e-mail alerts and SNMP traps for quick problem identification and resolution.
A CM41xx-48V console server at a remote site can be accessed in-band through the public data network or the telco's private IP network; or out-of-band through a dial-up modem PPP port or some other sideband management network. All connections are secure, with encrypted access to remote systems using up to 128-bit AES encryption.
CM41xx-48V also provides a selection of filtering and access logging facilities. All console logs can be archived off line. Access also can be restricted by IP address, by password, or by account. So managers can securely control and manage their distributed networks of servers and appliances.
Features and Benefits
- Affordably manage unlimited number of remote sites, each with hundreds of servers and appliances
- Secure In-band and Out-of-band serial console
- Secure In-band and Out-of-band network access (HTTP/HTTPS/RDP/VNC/SSH/telnet and more)
- Integrates with centralized enterprise management (OpenManage, Conserver, MO, Openview)
- Simple browser or command line management interface
- Local or remote access to headless servers (LOM, IPMI) and network devices
- Rock solid stability (optimized hardware and robust Linux software)
- Power management (remotely turn on, off and reboot equipment)
- Multiplatform (Linux, Windows, Cisco, BSD, UNIX and SUN compatible)
- Rock solid stability (optimized hardware and robust Linux software)
- Configurable - open source Linux kernel access
- Automated alerts and alarm management
- Console logs maintained and archived off- line for easy problem resolution
- Secure, encrypted access to remote systems
- Port access can be restricted by password, account or IP address
- Multiple levels of filtering and access logging
- Unlimited users with multiple users per port
- Up to 50 concurrent SSH sessions (SDT tunnels) can be open at the one time
- Compact solution. 16/48 serial ports 1RU rack mount
- +48V or -48V DC power
