IM4216-2 Opengear Infrastructure Management Gateway

Today's data centers need management tools that leverage the wide range of new in-band and out-of-band control technologies. Administrators need to use ALOM and iLO specific applications to access their embedded service processors. They need console access to the operating systems, and remote SOL access to the BIOS in their servers. They need secure browser and console access to reconfigure their firewalls and routers. They need to be able to power cycle systems and network devices - using the selection of UPS, IPMI and power strip devices they have deployed.

They need these controls to be available before the computers have booted, before the networks have become active, and even before the operating system has been provisioned. And they need secure access to these controls at the most remote sites in their distributed enterprise.

The IM4216-2 infrastructure management gateway meets all these needs, and more. It provides a reliable gateway to enable administrators to securely access their infrastructure - then quickly diagnose and fix any problems with the hardware, firmware, operating system or application software.

Integrated management gateway

Each of the mission-critical servers, switches, routers, power controllers and VoIP gateways in the data center has its own in-band and out-of-band management toolkit. A collection of local and remotely dispersed technical managers (system administrators, network administrators, applications specialists, service providers and vendor help desks) use these tools, and each wants to poke secure holes in the site network security to access the particular devices they control. The IM4216-2 gateway consolidates this to provide a single point of secure access for all these managers, and for all these tools, protocols and management applications.

Enterprise policies need flexible yet powerful access control mechanisms. The IM4216-2 restricts access by IP address, password and account - and once a user is authenticated, they are further restricted to using nominated services and TCP/UDP ports on the specific devices they have been authorized to access. All in-band and out-of-band management activity is logged, and these logs can be archived off line. This advanced auditing and tracking helps the organization conform to mandatory compliance requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA and HIPAA.