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Industry/Analyst Quotes

Donald Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems Group, HP "HP's entire line of Integrity IPF servers use IPMI. With Avocent...existing HP customers can benefit from simplifying management operations and reducing TCO."

John Abbott, the451 group "IPMI...is a key piece of functionality for remote server, networking and storage management."

David Hamilton, Director of the Enterprise Management Division, Microsoft "We are excited about the work OSA is doing with WMX-enabled IPMI firmware to lower ongoing hardware monitoring and management costs for IT administrators."

What is Agentless?

'Virtual Presence' — Powered by Avocent

Server administrators need to be everywhere, all of the time. Vendors are meeting that challenge with remote management technologies to help them maintain 'presence' across the organization. Typically however, these products do not interoperate. They also create additional costs to purchase and maintain. Avocent offers solutions that provide management from anywhere, anytime with "agentless" technologies that empowers a remote administrator with the same capabilities as if they were 'virtually' right next to the server. Avocent Agentless Products provides an embedded software and hardware management platform that helps customers reduce cost and increase operational agility by harnessing Out-of-Band (OOB), IPMI, KVM, SMASH and other embedded management technologies.

Enhance configuration, provisioning, monitoring, automation, etc.
Improve reliability, availability, & serviceability
Enable total lights-out, remote management
Offer 'Virtual Presence' at the Rack

Avocent creates an agentless management "platform" that adds management capabilities (add-on boards / software / appliances) to:

About Avocent Agentless Products

Avocent Agentless Products are delivered as modular, remote management building blocks that offer health monitoring, power control, virtual media and text and graphical console access within the device. Products are then integrated with external appliances and management software to provide a complete management experience.

Avocent Agentless Products cover the entire system lifecycle — Pre-OS, Boot, OS loading, OS running and OS unresponsive - offering both text and graphical console access for 'Always-on' availability.

Avocent Agentless Products support IPMI 2.0, Virtual Media, Embedded KVM, DVC algorithms and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) CIM (Common Information Model) and SMASH (Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware) initiative.

Avocent Agentless silicon, firmware, drivers, utilities and integrated, packaged solutions are already shipping in millions of servers and desktops worldwide.

Extensible Platform

Avocent provides extensible, off-the-shelf IPMI firmware and IPMI software supporting multiple management controllers and systems. By combining Avocent products with your processors, chipsets and OS platforms, you can take full advantage of this new industry standard specification. The benefits are truly compelling:

Increase competitive differentiation by improving the 'intelligence' of management controller designs
Lower operational costs by taking advantage of modular architectures
Reduce design and management complexity by providing a consistent codebase across multiple products

IPMI provides standardized interfaces for extending management features. IPMI is also an extensible standard that defines how users can monitor system hardware and sensors, control system components and log important system events. With IPMI, this processing burden shifts to cost-effective, IPMI-compliant management microcontrollers.

The combined benefits of IPMI together with your specialized equipment creates a standardized manageable platform that offers a win-win for you and your customers.