We recently had a client who asked us to implement the simple and cost effective solution for Out-of-band management for their production data centers. The goal of Out-of-band management is to have a network access to the critical data center infrastructure when company’s network is melted, preventing you to access any devices for troubleshooting purposes. In other words this is meant to be company’s alternative way of accessing data center critical devices. The simplest solution, that we actually ended up implementing, was a static DSL line from a local ISP provider, terminated on Cisco 2611 router, using PPPoE protocol. Cisco 2611… View full post »
