On 05/05/2022 14:35, Paul Brennan wrote:
Could I get your feedback on how you go about Out Of Band Management of your
devices based out in the field, particularly those situated in cabinets or
similar type environments.
There are 3 elements I'm interested in reviewing
1) Remote Power Cycling
Depends on whether APC SmartPDUs are installed and whether the serial /
IP port is available to us (sometimes it's closed off by the DC operator
for their power monitoring & billing), otherwise you can look at
products from Tripplite
2) Remote Access Methodology (ie ADSL, Cellular, Etc)
Usually ADSL on a phone line, Cellular (4G) access in DCs is notoriously
bad at many sites
3) Terminal Console Access
Blackbox Console Servers, but if you have an old 2500 Cisco that still
works reliably can use that, though probably some security issues with
the old software on these, might want to only network it to a bastion host.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has an all-in-one wonder product for
these.
If only... though many have an API, so you could write some software to
have a SPOG management interface.
TIA
Paul
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