Solutions Out of Band Solutions

Access your IT and lab infrastructure anytime, anywhere.

Out of band management or lights out management involves an alternative path to target devices in your infrastructure, separate from the production/primary network.

It is your back door to access, monitor, manage, and recover servers and networking equipment, regardless of network availability or if devices are non-responsive due to OS problems.

In daily management of your IT assets, in-band tools such as VNC, RDP, telnet or other remote management software works great, but these in-band tools rely on the operating system being available and the network being operational and properly configured.

Some instances where out of band solutions may be required:

  • Server is powered down
  • Operating system is locked up
  • Server and operating system hangs
  • Switch or router port has failed
  • Network adapter has malfunctioned
  • Network is incorrectly configured

Benefits

Having an out of band infrastructure saves time and money.

In a lab environment, out of band infrastructure such as console servers can speed up the development cycle of new products and facilitate cooperation among different geographic areas.

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Components

Out of band management or lights out management involves an alternative path to target devices in your infrastructure, separate from the production/primary network.

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