Automates Deployment of Services

IP name and address services are essential to service availability and end user performance capabilities. If end users are unable to obtain an IP address, they can’t communicate or complete tasks essential to your business success. If application host names are not quickly resolved by programs in end users’ PCs, connecting to these applications and other services is difficult if not impossible.

Consolidating all IP address information in a single location ensures that your geographically dispersed network administrators can access the same IP database. This eliminates duplication of administrative effort and allows you to maintain a consistent IP inventory network- wide. Administrative efficiency is also increased from hosting IP address management services such as DNS and DHCP on specialized hardware appliance platforms while improving security and uptime.

The VitalQIP Appliance Manager offers the latest multi-core Intel-based architecture combined with the hardened Red Hat Linux® operating system as well as a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that is used to seamlessly manage deployment, apply patches and upgrades, and monitor IPAM, DNS, DHCP and other services.

Vitalqip appliance management software

The centralized VitalQIP Appliance Management Software (AMS) maintains an inventory of software packages and appliances and is easily launched from the VitalQIP web-based GUI. Also included for security is a token-based appliance authentication process.

Deployment, upgrades and maintenance is simplified by configuring services on the AMS GUI before deployment and by logically grouping the appliances. Remote services, such as DNS and DHCP, can also be upgraded to the latest software version across many appliances with

a few simple clicks. If there are issues with an upgrade, an administrator can roll back to a previous version of the service since a record of upgrades is maintained in the AMS for each appliance.

Administrators have centralized access and a view of the entire appliance network via the monitoring section of AMS.This centralized control gives administrators quick and easy access to all log and configuration files, remote start and stop of services on appliances, and the ability to quickly take any appliance offline for suspicious behavior as well as reboot appliances from a central location, saving travel costs and time.

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