IT administrators need to easily and effectively manage servers locked away in a secure data center or in locations with no administrative IT staff. Dell offers reliable remote access solutions to help you manage your systems no matter where they may be. The Dell remote access solutions - Dell Remote Assistant Card III, Dell Remote Access Card 4 and Embedded Remote Access - enable the critical management of servers around the corner . . .or around the world.
Dell Remote Access solutions can help improve administrators' abilities to manage servers, whether or not the servers are operational, without having to physically access the servers. By providing administrators with this remote access, Dell can help customers:
- Increase Availability - Early notification of potential or actual failures can reduce recovery time and could help prevent server failure. In conjunction with using remote access to return the server to normal operations more quickly, availability may be increased.
- Improve Productivity and Lower Cost of Ownership - Reducing travel time and cost to manage remote servers and extending the reach of administrators to larger numbers of servers can make staff more productive while also driving down operations costs.
- Enhance Security - By providing secure access to remote servers, administrators can carry out critical management functions while maintaining server and network security.
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Dell Remote Access Card 4 (DRAC4)
DRAC4 enables users to remotely access, monitor, troubleshoot, and repair/upgrade severs independent of the OS status. Equipped with a Web-based interface using industry-standard SSL protocol to transfer encrypted data, DRAC4 allows IT administrators to securely manage servers located in different buildings or cities and help save valuable travel time and cost.
Removable media is readily available as if you were in front of the server reducing the need to go to the server for management actions, including installation tasks. The Command Line Interface allows for the automation of remote access functions via command scripts, thus helping to improve administrators' productivity by saving them from manually performing repetitive actions.
With capabilities such as server fault alerting, event logging and last screen capture, DRAC4 assists administrators in alerting and troubleshooting server problems and helping to speed recovery time.
Remote access functions are based upon industry standards including HTTP, SSL, SNMP, and IPMI. In addition, support for Microsoft Active Directory helps simplify integration into your overall management solution in a Microsoft environment.
Features of DRAC 4 include:
- Active Directory authentication and authorization
- Operating system-independent continuous video console
- Virtual floppy and CD
- Web-based graphical user interface
- Dedicated NIC; shared serial connectivity
- E-mail and SNMP alerting
- Independently powered
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The DRAC 4 supports the PowerEdge 2850, 2800, and 1850 as a daughter-card controller that leaves both PCI slots free.
