Network Device Console Manager
The IM4200 is a device that provides a single consolidated secure access to allow remote specific out-of-band applications, such as IBM Director and Dell OpenManage, to access the service processors (RSA, DRAC) embedded in their servers or remote SOL access to the BIOS in these servers.
The IM4200 can be accessed locally or remotely and provides SSH tunnel support enables remote managers to use classical in-band graphical control tools like X11, RDP and VNC to control applications and reconfigure operating systems, but it makes these tools available over the out-of-band channels. And all these connections are secure, with authenticated access using up to 128-bit AES encryption and a selection of filtering and logging facilities.
The IM4200 also supports IPMI and SOL and the out-of-band control tools that accompany popular BMC and service processors. These new management facilities enable monitoring, logging, recovery, inventory, and control of the hardware, BIOS, OS and applications - independent of the state of the main CPU, network and OS. The BIOS can be reconfigured remotely and the system can be rebooted remotely - using side-band or out-of-band channels - even when the CPU itself is not operating. Using these same out-of-band channels, managers can have full KVM graphical control of applications running on the server - even when the in-band network access to the server is down. The IM4200 supports an extensive range of these new lights-out management control tools including IPMI, iLO, RSA, ALOM, DRAC and more.
| Model | Serial Ports | Management LAN Ports | Console Ports | Ethernet Ports | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IM4248-2 | 48 RS232 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| IM4216-2 | 16 RS232 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| IM4208-2 | 8 RS232 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
