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Cyclades AlterPath™ Manager Service Processor Management - AlterPath Manager Integration with IPMI The Evolving Data Center Service availability is an increasingly critical factor affecting a companies' ability to conduct business. IT infrastructure is now the most mission-critical component of the modern enterprise and keeping IT assets in production is paramount. Systems administrators managing those services should be able to quickly diagnose and fix infrastructure incidents (such as a hardware failure or an operating system crash) that cause service downtime. Over the years, many IT infrastructure management technologies have been deployed within an enterprise, and in most cases multiple technologies co-exist, each managing a portion of their IT assets. Ideally, when an IT asset loses connectivity to the production infrastructure, restoring connectivity to those assets should not require the time and expense of sending an expert to the location where the problem occurred. Most people are familiar with systems management applications like HP OpenView, BMC PATROL, IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter. These tools rely on the production data network to transport management information. These tools are great for handling application failures and detecting network problems, but they become ineffective when the managed device loses network connectivity. When devices cannot be accessed through the production data network, an Out-of-Band Infrastructure (OOBI) is required. If systems management applications are the eyes and ears helping you quickly detect network problems, out-of-band management tools such as IPMI, serial console servers, KVM switches, power controllers, are the hands that help you remotely diagnose and correct the cause of the problem from anywhere. IPMI Arrives! One of the newest technologies to be introduced within this management landscape is IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) (www.openipmi.org). IPMI is an open standard designed to enable remote monitoring and control of server, networking and telecommunications platforms. Driven by several companies, including Intel (www.intel.com), Dell (www.dell.com), HP (www.hp.com) and NEC (www.nec.com), the IPMI () specification has been adopted by more than 150 companies in the industry, including IBM (www.ibm.com), Sun (www.sun.com) and every major server platform vendor. First introduced in 1998, IPMI is now mature enough to enable mainstream implementation and adoption. IPMI is beginning to play a key role in IT architecture planning for year 2005 and beyond. Out-of-Band Infrastructure (OOBI) has become so important that some server platforms now include a dedicated service processor that runs IPMI. Together they enhance out-of-band capabilities, which include monitoring and, in some cases controlling parameters such as temperature, fan speed, CPU status, power, electrical voltages, BIOS configuration, and operating system console information. Cyclades IT Infrastructure Management The benefits of an architected out-of-band management scheme which encompasses all existing technologies are obvious: greater control over the hardware infrastructure (less risk and downtime) and reduced management overhead (greater operational efficiency, reduced costs). Cyclades uniquely recognized the importance of architecting a single, secure, extensible solution with the capacity to solve today's real-world problems, yet with the ability to include new technologies. The Cyclades AlterPath™ system creates a highly secure, highly consolidated foundation in which out-of-band technologies and best practices can exist. The AlterPath system is designed to be future proof; IPMI is now the latest addition to this complete Out-of-Band Infrastructure (OOBI) management system, and one that is sure to take hold in a growing portion of the IT infrastructures in place today. For more information on how Cyclades AlterPath Manager would work with IPMI enabled servers, please contact Mirapath at ipmi@mirapath.com. |
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