Remote access appliance having MSS functionality

摘要

A remote access appliance is disclosed for facilitating communications between a managed device and a user located remotely from the appliance and from the managed device. The appliance may have a processor adapted to facilitate the communication of keyboard, video and mouse information between the appliance and the managed device. A manageability subsystem may be incorporated for communicating with the managed device and collecting information concerning operation of the managed device, without the need to first transmit the information over a network.

主权项

1. A system for enabling monitoring a plurality of managed devices by a user located remotely from the managed devices, the system comprising:
a plurality of remote access appliances for facilitating communications between the managed devices and a user located remotely from the appliances and from the managed devices; each remote access appliance including:
a housing;a processor disposed within the housing and adapted to facilitate communication of keyboard, video and mouse information between the appliance and the managed device;a manageability subsystem disposed within the housing for communicating with the managed device and collecting information from at least one of the managed devices concerning operation of the at least one managed device via a communications link with the remote access appliance, and where the communications link does not involve transmitting the collected information over a network; anda rack data unit (RDU) subsystem disposed within the housing;an interface subsystem including at least one RDU port in communication with the RDU subsystem, the at least one RDU port operable to connect the remote access appliance via a cable connection directly to the at least one managed device to directly receive a sensor output from the at least one managed device;the manageability subsystem including an element library that stores parameters associated with the managed device; and wherein the remote access appliances form a distributed manageability subsystem configuration that enables each said remote access appliance to contribute to collecting the information from the managed devices.