Your Special Agent, For Out Of Band Missions

KVM-Over-TCP/IP appliances are designed to provide you with a highly
sought-for privilege: regard your unattended IT systems with the same level of
availability as your manned locations. This major improvement in server
maintenance methodology is accomplished by extending the reach of the good
old local keyboard, video and mouse interfaces, that where always accessible
by your once-onsite IT professional in a variety of scenarios: no network, system
boot-up, BIOS configuration, blue-screens etc.

Other means of remote server healthcare are also available in the market, some for a long time (such as remote power cycling) and some newly introduced such as IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface). Other veterans in providing "Out Of Band" ontrol over systems are the serial console servers, providing total remote control over any system equipped with a command-line based RS232 interface, typically network appliances and UNIX servers.

K-One, available now from Replicom, has it all: KVM Over Network Enabler (K-One), a dual port console server (with IPMI capabilities), AC power control and built-in powerful IPSEC VPN. Based on a high performance KVM streaming hardware, K-One is capable of controlling almost any conceivable data-closet combination, thus maximizing your return on investment in several factors including: Lower cost of ownership, Increased uptime, efficient manpower deployment and better service.

Key Features:

  •  KVM Anywhere – Out-of-band access over LAN, Internet or direct Dialup regardless of the server’s state.

  •  Dual Port Console Server – Control 2 additional servers or devices with an RS232 interface: Sun servers, Routers, Switches, NAS, Firewall appliances etc.

  •  High resolution support: VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA compatible, up to 1600x1200 @85 Hz.

  •  Hardware based video processing and compression, based on Replicom’s proprietary algorithms allows for efficient bandwidth utilization and a highly responsive remote KVM interface.

  •  Dual Ethernet ports – either for DMZ/LAN configurations or for simple network redundancy.

  •  IPMI support on serial interfaces allows remote reset/power control of 2 IPMI 1.5 compatible servers via serial port. Unlike external power cutoff, IPMI control is ideal for servers with any number of power supplies.

  •  Built in single-channel AC power cycling for remote power control.

  •  On board 56k v90 modem and dial-up server provides an emergency alternate path to servers when the network is down.

  •  XML based management interface enables centralized KVM.net navigation, configuration and monitoring.

  •  Compact form factor and built-in power supply allows for dense rack-mounting as well as convenient server-top placement.

  •  Supports heterogeneous server configurations – K-One keeps track of video and mouse-acceleration parameters for each connected server. Mouse acceleration is properly handled for a variety of operating systems, including non-default values.

  •  Totally configurable and upgradeable over network – including full system rewrite from image to flash. K-One is equipped with factory-defaults and reset pushbuttons on front panel.

K-One Specifications: