Raritan introduces enhanced CommandCenter

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Raritan has announced enhancements and new interfaces for its hot selling, CommandCenter remote management appliance that provides

Raritan has announced enhancements and new interfaces for its hot selling, CommandCenter remote management appliance that provides unified views and secure, centralized control of servers and other IT devices in data centers and branch offices.

According to Sev Onyshkevych, global marketing-VP, Raritan Computer Inc, "IT organizations are always looking to reduce IT expenditures, optimize resources, and enhance security and equipment performance. CommandCenter's unique ability to manage both analog and digital switches through one interface means that any device located anywhere in a customer's enterprise can be viewed and accessed. This further helps IT administrators to resolve incidents more quickly and efficiently."

The new release of CommandCenter provides support for Hewlett-Packard's lights-out management technologies and tighter integration of analog and digital KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch environments. HP servers with Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) embedded

chips and more than half million HP servers with Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) or RILOE II cards can now be connected to a CommandCenter management network. CommandCenter provides a one-screen view of all IT equipment and one-click BIOS-level access to target devices, by integrating the IT equipment managed by Raritan's KVM switches, serial console servers and, now, HP servers with iLO chips or RILO cards into a single, logical command-and-control network.

This year Raritan is also celebrating its two decades of innovation and success. Onyshkevych added, "We will continue to develop new products and enhance the existing ones. The past 20 years have been remarkable for Raritan, but this is only the beginning. The best is yet to come."

Raritan also introduced a new interface device, Paragon II System Controller (P2-SC), which integrates Raritan's Paragon II analog, Cat5 KVM switches into a CommandCenter network. With P2-SC, multiple Paragon II switches, and

the servers that are connected to these switches, can be accessed and controlled with CommandCenter. As a result, CommandCenter is able to manage analog KVM switches and digital appliances, including Raritan's Dominion KX KVM-over-IP switches and Dominion SX serial-over-IP console servers.

Other enhancements include active directory integration for importing to CommandCenter the user group information defined on an Active Directory server; Geographic Redundancy, which enables a redundant CommandCenter appliance to be placed in another location for emergency backup; and SNMP trap support, which enables CommandCenter traps to be sent to a SNMP Manager, such as HP OpenView.