Earlier this week I found some best practice recommendations from Cisco on securing and controlling out-of-band management for their Nexus 7000 series supervisor modules. Although the recommendations made by Cisco are textbook examples for creating highly available and redundant remote management there are several ways Opengear can expand on those recommendations to help (more…)
WHY OUT-OF-BAND TERMINAL SERVERS BECOME GHOSTS
It is not uncommon to see remote access solutions (terminal or console servers) still in the racks years after they were last upgraded or even covered by warranty. There are several reasons for these “ghosts” or “zombies” as they are sometimes referred to:
WHAT HARM CAN A GHOST DO? – LOTS
All too often we talk to customers who have legacy serial console servers but have not upgraded them in years. This presents some challenges: (more…)