Compaq Adds Remote Management
Board
CMP Media Inc. - Saturday, November 20, 1999
Nov. 19, 1999 (InternetWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- Compaq last week unveiled
hardware that promises to simplify management of servers in remote offices.
The Remote Insight Lights Out Edition is a PCI board and software that lets
administrators handle all management tasks, said Lee Johns, Compaq's director of
enterprise management and marketing.
Administrators can access any remote server with a Web browser.
"With this board in the server, an administrator can even turn the server on and off from a remote
location," said Johns.
The Insight software can run on Compaq's ProLiant PC servers as well as PC servers from other vendors.
The board also offers complete graphics capability from within the browser, Compaq said.
As servers increasingly become commodity products, vendors are looking to improve manageability to
add value, said Lindy Lesperance, an analyst at Technology Business Research Inc. IBM and HP offer
their own remote management systems as well.
"If network card fails or the drivers are corrupt, it allows you to still connect to the machine so you can
track down the problem," said Michael Curran, a systems specialist at Bell Atlantic, which has 50 to 60
remote locations between Maine and West Virginia and is considering the card.
Compaq's boards will ship Dec. 15 and will cost $499.
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