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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."

Products

Agentless Management Software Analog and Digital KVM Agentless Management Software Baseboard Management Firmware

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Agentless Management Software

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In addition to IPMI firmware we provide IPMI software as modular system management tools offering centralized access to IPMI-enabled devices. By utilizing industry standards such as Cisco-like CLI, CIM, SNMP, HPI, WMI, SOAP and XML, you can start with focused management utilities that can expand to accommodate additional tasks or customer integration options. For those companies that have little or no firmware or software management expertise, we also offer development packages allowing any company to offer IPMI solutions at an accelerated rate.

OOB Services provides critical hardware management for IPMI-compliant servers as well as supporting vendor specific interfaces like the HP remote management/telnet interface. It provides a standards-based, one-to-many, foundation for server health information including alerts, sensor information, power control and asset tracking functions. All operations can be secured by using supported embedded authentication and encryption options within the managed server.

Analog and Digital KVM

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Avocent KVM modules offer the benefits of a KVM switch in a Blade form factor — providing full control of all blade server functions, including local operating system (OS) installation, server blade configuration, daily maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Baseboard Management Firmware

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Our IPMI firmware solutions are targeted to customers that require IPMI 1.5 or 2.0-compliant Baseboard management controller (BMC) applications for "In-Band" or "Out-of-Band" access. We also support PICMG 2.9 R1.0 (the management standard for AdvancedTCA) compliant peripheral and satellite management controller (PMC and SMC) applications for CompactPCI and ATCA boards and blade servers.
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.