General Information

Supported Protocols

These protocols are currently supported for network-based devices:

• Telnet

• SSH

• HTTP/S

• IPMI variations

• SNMP

Devices are managed with multiple options (enable, create, add). These can be done manually or automatically with Discovery.

When a managed device is added in the System, one license is pulled from the License Pool. Each unit is shipped with enough perpetual licenses for all physical ports. Additional licenses can be added to a unit to manage additional devices.

If licenses expire or are deleted from the system, the status of any device that exceeds the total licenses is changed to “Unlicensed”. The System maintains information on unlicensed devices but are only shown on Access :: Table. Licensed devices are listed and available for access and management. On the Managed Devices page (upper right), total licenses, total in-use licenses, and total available licenses are shown.

Device Types

These managed device types are supported:

• Console connections that utilize RS-232 protocol.

  • Nodegrid Console Servers

  • Nodegrid Net Services Routers

• Service Processor Devices that use:

  • IPMI 1.5

  • IPMI 2.0

  • HP iLO

  • Oracle/SUN iLOM

  • IBM IMM

  • Dell DRAC

  • Dell iDRAC

  • Intel BMC

  • Open BMC (available in v5.8+)

• Console Server connections that utilize SSH protocol

• Console Server connections that utilize:

  • Vertiv ACS Classic family

  • Vertiv ACS6000 family

  • Lantronix Console Server family

  • Opengear Console Server family

  • Digi Console Server family

  • Nodegrid Console Server family

• KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) Switches that utilize:

  • Vertiv DSR family

  • Vertiv MPU family

  • Atem Enterprise KVM family

  • Raritan KVM family

  • ZPE Systems KVM module

• Rack PDUs from:

  • APC

  • CPI

  • Cyberpower

  • Baytech

  • Eaton

  • Enconnex

  • Vertiv (PM3000 and MPH2)

  • Raritan

  • Ritttal

  • Servertech

  • Austin Hughes

• Cisco UCS

• Netapp

• Infrabox

• Virtual Machine sessions from:

  • VMWare

  •  KVM

• Sensors (auto-detected)

  • ZPE Systems Temperature and Humidity Sensor

• EdgeCore Access Points (auto-detected)

Licensing

The following section outlines the available license types, their functions, and the number of supported assets per license.

License Types

• Access:  Enables users to create and connect to managed devices.

• Clustering:  Allows connections to managed devices that are configured in cluster peers.

• Monitoring:  Enables the system to collect events and telemetry from managed devices (for example, voltage/current thresholds of a PDU). Collected data can be visualized on dashboards.

• Docker Containers:  Supports the creation and operation of virtual machines using Docker containers or Qemu/KVM.

• Compute Tier:  Provides control over the virtual service router (VSR) memory and CPU resources. Available tiers include:

  Tier	CPU	RAM
  Tier 1	2 CPUs	4 GB
  Tier 2	4 CPUs	8 GB
  Tier 3	4 CPUs	16 GB
  Tier 4	8 CPUs	32 GB
  Tier 5	16 CPUs	64 GB

Number of Assets Per License

The number of assets that can be managed under each license type varies. This section lists the available asset count options based on the type of license purchased.

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