Centralised in-band and out-of-band network management for servers, serial devices, rack PDUs, service processors and USB interfaces

A network management infrastructure consists of the Network Operations Centre (NOC, in-band management) and/or the out-of-band management path, which enables IT administrators to manage and control centrally each single IT component that is part of the network. These include KVM switches, console servers, PDUs (power distribution units), storage devices, blade servers and service processors such as IPMI, ILO, ALOM, RSA, DRAC, RSB. By utilising a centralised network management tool, it is also possible to provide USB interfaces for physical and virtual servers in the network