Raritan enhances its remote mgmt appliance

NEW DELHI: Raritan, provider of products for managing IT infrastructure, has announced enhancements and new interfaces for its CommandCenter remote management appliance that provides unified views and secure, centralized control of servers and other IT devices in data centers and branch offices.

According to the press release, the new release of CommandCenter provides support for HP's lights-out management technologies and tighter integration of analog and digital KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch environments. HP servers with Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) embedded chips and more than half million HP servers with Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) or RILOE II cards can now be connected to a CommandCenter management network.

CommandCenter provides a one-screen view of all IT equipment and one-click BIOS-level access to target devices, by integrating the IT equipment managed by Raritan's KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switches, serial console servers and, now, HP servers with iLO chips or RILO cards into a single, logical command-and-control network.

Raritan also introduced a new interface device -- Paragon II System Controller (P2-SC)-that integrates Raritan's Paragon II analog, Cat5 KVM switches into a CommandCenter network. With P2-SC, multiple Paragon II switches, and the servers that are connected to these switches, can be accessed and controlled with CommandCenter.

Other enhancements in CommandCenter 2.2 include Active Directory integration for importing to CommandCenter the user group information defined on an Active Directory server; Geographic Redundancy, which enables a redundant CommandCenter appliance to be placed in another location for emergency backup; and SNMP trap support, which enables CommandCenter traps to be sent to a SNMP Manager, such as HP OpenView.