Raritan COMMANDCENTER User manual

Secure, Centralized IT Infrastructure Management
Managing an IT infrastructure is complex, time consuming, expensive and critical
to a company's success. Clearly, for IT managers, the pressure is on. Not only must
IT managers be more responsive to changing needs while reducing downtime and
increasing security; all this must be accomplished while reducing costs. It's a
challenge. At Raritan, we've engineered a solution that helps IT managers meet
this challenge by centralizing the control of a company's IT infrastructure.
It's called CommandCenter.
Designed to provide complete control of your enterprise IT infrastructure,
CommandCenter consolidates the management of Raritan's Dominion™Series,
Paragon®and IP-Reach™appliances, and all of the servers and other IT devices
connected to Raritan equipment. With CommandCenter, a single sign-on to a
single interface gives IT administrators a consolidated view, with click-and-control
access and BIOS-level control, whether they're at the rack, at their desks, in the
Network Operations Center (NOC) or anywhere in the world.
CommandCenter seamlessly integrates KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) and
serial console devices to tie all the data center technologies together in a framework
that allows you to quickly locate and access devices no matter where they are in the
enterprise. In addition, features such as centralized, role-based policy management
provide the ability to dramatically:
➤Reduce complexity through aggregated access.
➤Reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) and downtime through reduced complexi-
ty combined with remote BIOS-level access.
➤Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by streamlining overall operations,
administration and maintenance (OA&M).
Ideal for enterprises with one or more data centers or a number of remote offices,
CommandCenter provides:
➤Intuitive dashboard views allowing access and control of all data center equip-
ment via a single unified GUI interface providing both physical and logical views
of all IT assets.
➤The ability to monitor, diagnose and resolve infrastructure problems, from
anywhere, at anytime.
➤Secure, centralized management of multiple data centers, branch offices
and remote locations via one, secure, appliance.
CommandCenter
Centralize control to global
IT equipment via a simple
Web interface
Command and Control of
Your IT Enterprise
CommandCenter™
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CommandCenter Highlights
➤Easy to use - Appliance architecture with an intuitive
browser-based interface for simplified access to IT
equipment via Raritan Dominion Series, Paragon,
and IP-Reach. User-defined physical and logical views to
locate devices quickly.
➤Scalability - Multi-user access to several Dominion,
Paragon and IP-Reach appliances, and hundreds of
servers and serially controlled devices.
➤High Availability - Redundant (mirrored) hard drives,
dual network interface cards (NICs), dual hot-swappable
power supplies with separate supply cables, and
emergency access via built-in modem.
➤Secure - 100% encryption of all data on the network.
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A New Dimension in IT Management.
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Dominion SX
Dominion KX
Dominion KX
Dominion SX
Primary Data Center
Remote Office
Serial Devices
& Headless Servers
(Switch/Router/PBX/etc.)
KVM Servers
(Domain/File/Print)
External Authentication Server
(e.g. Active Directory)
LAN
LAN
Back Up Data Center

Centralized IT Management
➤Single IP-address reduces the complexity of managing
multiple Raritan Dominion Series, Paragon and
IP-Reach appliances, including firmware upgrades and
user access permissions.
➤Consolidates KVM and serial console servers, power
strips and remote office / branch office equipment into
one view.
➤Choice of Web browser or SSH access over Internet,
Intranet or VPN providing secure remote access to all
connected devices.
Secure Centralized Command.
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Complete Security
CommandCenter includes powerful security features that
enable integration with existing external authentication tools
including Active Directory®, LDAP-S, RADIUS and
TACACS+. In addition, an on-board authentication server
provides failover in the event of an external server or
network problem.
➤Robust security policies for individual user authorization
to the port level.
➤128-bit SSL private and public key encryption.
➤IP-based Access Control Lists (ACL) and IP filtering
grants or restricts user access.
➤Flexible session time-outs and password expirations.
➤"Strong" user name and password authentication.
➤Appliance architecture running on embedded Linux®
operating system.
➤Role-based policy administration capability.
Hardware Features
➤1U height suitable for rack mounting.
➤Dual hot-swappable power supplies with separate
power cables.
➤Dual network interface cards for Ethernet failover.
➤Dual mirrored hard drives for high availability.
➤LED activity/status indicators.
➤Local admin port for at-the-rack administration
and maintenance
➤Integrated modem for emergency access
to CommandCenter
Software Features
➤Plug-and-Play Appliance - no server or client software
installation required.
➤All features, including, access, configuration and
administration, accessible via a Web browser.
➤Powerful, portal-like interface provides customizable,
permission-based groupings and device views.
➤Raritan appliance discovery, with device availability sta-
tus, health updates and alarms.
➤Flexible user access licensing model.
➤Syslog integration
Dominion KSX
CommandCenter
Remote (Network) Access
Modem Access
LAN WLAN
PSTN
Wireless Access

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Specs
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Computer, Inc.; Active Directory and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.; Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
*To qualify for advanced replacement under the standard warranty, you must register the product at http://raritan.com/standard_warranty.
CommandCenter
Form Factor 1U
Dimensions 22.1"(D) x17.32" (W) x 1.75" (H) 563mm (D) x 440mm (W)
x 44mm (H)
Power Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies auto sensing
110/220 V - 2.0A
KVM Admin Port 1
Serial Admin Port 1
Hardware
Processor Intel®Pentium®III 1 GHz
RAM 512 MB Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) memory
Ethernet Interfaces Two 10/100 Ethernet network interface controllers
Hard Disk & Controller ATA RAID-1 card with 2-40 GB ATA drives
CD/ROM drive Slot-load 40x read-only
Console DB-9 RS232 console port
Remote Connection
Network 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45)
Modem V.92 (56Kbps) ; RJ-11 connector
Protocols TCP/IP, UDP, RADIUS, SNMP, SNTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS
Warranty Two years with Advanced Replacement*.
Guardian Extended Warranty Also Available.
Access and Control at Anytime
from Anywhere
➤Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) providing
user-defined physical and logical views of ports, users,
and devices.
➤Integration of Raritan's Dominion Series, Paragon and
IP-Reach appliances.
➤Active Directory, LDAP-S, RADIUS, TACACS+ and
internal authentication.
➤Array of flexible logging and reporting options with
audit trails for diagnostics and troubleshooting
➤Real-time view and manage active user sessions and
active ports
One View of the Entire Enterprise
When you’re ready to take control,
do it with CommandCenter.
Call 1.800.724.8090 or visit raritan.com/cc
Raritan Computer, Inc. is a leading supplier of IT infrastructure management solutions for secure access, monitoring and management of servers and other IT devices in data
centers and remote offices. Raritan was founded in 1985, and since then has been making products that are used to control millions of servers at more than 50,000 network data
centers, computer test labs and multi-workstation environments around the world. From the small business to the enterprise, Raritan's complete line of compatible and scalable
KVM and remote connectivity products offers IT professionals the most reliable, flexible and secure in-band and out-of-band solutions to manage data center equipment, while
improving operational productivity. More information on the company is available at raritan.com.