![]() ![]() ![]() The Avocent MergePoint appliance pulls all of these different interfaces and command languages into a single consistent interface - and it works wonderfully. Dell has DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller), HP has iLO (Integrated Lights-Out), Sun has ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Management), and then there’s Intel's IPMI (Intelligent Platform Interface) and a few others. ![]() Like the proverbial Tower of Babel, every vendor has its own particular interface and command language. Still, management and monitoring functions such as power supply details, environmental conditions, and so on are all presented through individual GUIs. The addition of an out-of-band management system like a service processor gives the IT manager a source of detailed system information that isn’t OS-dependent. Avocent's MergePoint 5224 appliance, a 24-port service processor aggregation system, gives the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology's IT group a single service processor management interface, while losing none of the functionality from individual dashboards. Because our new datacenter, HIG 319, functions like a multicompany colocation service, we ended up with a wide variety of equipment and at least three different flavors of service processors (Sun, Dell, HP) with three different management interfaces to juggle. Avocent brought its industry-leading out-of-band management systems to our project, providing IP KVM for PC and Sun servers, service processor aggregation, serial terminal services, and the DSView management server. ![]()
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