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What Do Our Customers Appreciate the Most About Our Console Server Products?

Our customers appreciate our console server products for a variety of different reasons. Foremost among those many reasons are ease of operation, ease of configuration via CLI or GUI and a standardized command set that provides the same convenient commands to all of our various serial console server models. Customers also appreciate the wide variety [...]

There are Many Ways to Use a Console Server …

A Console Server can be deployed in many ways to make accessing equipment more efficient as well as requiring less man power to fix a problem. One example is using them on an oil drilling platform. Mainly everyone working on the rig itself has a specific job and is needed daily. Having a full time [...]

Support for Console Servers

One important factor to consider when deploying a Console Server solution is support and warranty period. Most Console Server manufactures offer a one or two year pre-paid warranty with the first being the industry standard. WTI sells cutting edge Console Servers with a 5 year pre-paid warranty and lifetime free support. This is extremely important [...]

If You Could Have One Feature in a Console Server, What Would It Be?

The most important feature on a Console Server for a data center which can be located world wide would have to be the “Ethernet port” also known as your network connection. This Console Server feature allows for you to access your routers, switches, UPS, telephony, and firewalls remotely from any where in the world. Console [...]

5 Things to Consider When Buying a Console Server

When buying a Console Server you will need to know how many network elements per location for management and consolidated access. This will determine the port density of the Console Server you will be purchasing. Another thing to consider is the type of administrator/user access that will be available to your Console Server. Will users [...]

Console Server Alarms

When searching for a console server, it is important to look at what types of alarms are available and how these alarms are administered. The amount and type of security of a console server is very important since it may be hooked up to sensitive network equipment. Login attempts and user rights should be limited [...]

What is Reverse SSH?

It’s midnight, it’s raining and you need quick, secure communication with a piece of remote network equipment that’s malfunctioned. No problem, right? All you need to do is fire up your SSH client and you’re ready to communicate with the unruly server or router … but what if you can’t establish an in-band connection, and [...]

What makes a console server “secure”? Why is this important?

A console server has an array of security and authentication features that make the network equipment secure. Here are a few features of a console server : SSHv2 Encryption, HTTPS/SSL Secure Web and password protection. Also Remote Authentication such as LDAP, RADIUS and TACACS+. The importance of secure features on a console server is so [...]

Critical Requirements for a Console Server

Critical requirement that I would expect my console server to have would be out-of-band access. This is important to me, because network connections may fail and if I can access the device when the network does fail, it defeats the purpose. I would need access to the unit regardless of the status of my network. [...]

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