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KVM Switches
In Band Network Access  |   Out of Band  |   KVM Switches
Serial Consoles |   Remote Control  |   Network Servers 
Port Commander |   LSS  |   Secure Sentinel 
KVM Over IP, Digital KVM, and KVM Switch Over IP
 
Locally and remotely access and control your servers in your data center or remote office with OutPost Sentinel’s secure KVM over IP technology.  
KVM data switchOutPost Sentinel’s remote server access KVM products enable you to have in band and out of band access to all your servers connected to your KVM switch. The Smart IP Sentinel gives you secure (128 bit encrypted) access to all you servers regardless of operating system. Control all your servers and be able to edit CMOS settings or power cycle your servers. Using OutPost’s intelligent power strips you can even remotely cold start or hard reboot your servers.
OutPost’s solutions take KVM management to new heights. You can have secure remote access to all your server platforms and utilizing the OPS Command Center and the ENS technology you can have the only fully integrated and proactive solution available. Why wait for your customers, whether internal or external, to notify you that you network is not performing properly? With OutPost’s fully integrated KVM, power and console management solution you get immediate notification both in network and out of network and the ability to monitor and access ANY device the ability to cycle power and remotely perform soft and hard reboots.

What is KVM?

KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) and KVM Switching is one method of providing OBM. I am sure you seen the old "Crash Carts" with a keyboard, a monitor and a mouse on them. The administrator would have to walk to the troubled area and push the cart over to the failed system and plug the KVM devices directly into the unit to repair that station. This was a slow, labor-intensive solution.
Then KVM switches were developed that were able to connect to multiple servers through their I/O ports and enable centralized local access from a single workstation. KVM switches provide a good local OBM solution because they use the same interface (keyboard-video-mouse) which with we are already familiar. However, most KVM solutions are generally for local management only and remote access to the servers is usually not possible.
Now, there are products that do offer KVM over IP, which allow remote access to multiple servers. They generally require very high bandwidth and do not work over dial-up lines. In addition, KVM switches generally require software specific to particular operating systems and may not support all platforms. KVM switches are also limited to managing only specific servers and cannot manage other intelligent devices such as routers, switches or PBXs.