Challenge, Avocent Solution, Cyclades ACS, Software

Cyclades PM

Intelligent Power Distribution Unit

Challenge

In today’s information age, keeping IT infrastructures fully operational while supporting business goals has never been more important. With the IT infrastructure evolving to include geographically dispersed data centres comprised of hundreds or thousands of IT assets, the cost of maintaining these assets can become overwhelming. To reduce operational costs and ensure round-the-clock service availability, you need effective and reliable out-of- band management to securely access, diagnose and restore disconnected or failed IT assets quickly.

Avocent Solution

Business stops when the IT production network is down or an IT asset is not responding. In-band management tools alone cannot correct the problem. Administrators often need out-of-band management tools to troubleshoot and restore IT assets across the enterprise, whether these assets are close at hand or remote. Out-of-band manage- ment tools by Avocent include Cyclades® PM intelligent power distribution units (IPDUs), DSR® switch appliances, Cyclades ACS advanced console servers and Cyclades OnBoard service processor manager, all controlled by DSView® 3 management software. The Avocent solution integrates these products into a comprehensive, remote management system with enterprise-class security and a single, consolidated user interface.

DSView 3

Software

Logical

Connection

Cyclades ACS

Console Server

Console Management Console servers that provide secure, remote access to IT devices and console port management for UNIX- and Windows- based servers

Logical

Connection

RS-232

Daisy Chain

Cyclades PM IPDU

Power Management

Fully integrated, error-free power distribution