To meet the needs of government, financial, and other security-focused organizations, the Dominion KSX II is the first solution to provide advanced security features, including FIPS 140-2 encryption (U.S. government mandate for security encryption), Smart Card/Common Access Card (CAC) authentication, which meets U.S. Department of Defense standards and helps agencies comply with National Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), and 256-bit AES encryption.
A simple web login provides IT administrators with real-time, consolidated views of all IT equipment deployed in remote locations and offers direct access to the equipment. By integrating Raritan’s award-winning and proven field access technologies—including KVM over IP and remote access to the server’s serial console—into a single device, the new KSX II provides everything needed to securely manage, troubleshoot, and configure IT equipment typically found in remote offices and IT racks, including servers, blades, switches, routers, network devices, PBXs, firewalls, load balancers, and power distribution units. With Raritan PX rack power distribution units, the KSX II can be used to recycle power and reboot remote equipment.
For organizations with multiple remote offices, Raritan introduces the VMware-based CommandCenter® virtual application for Secure Gateway 5.1, which provides a consolidated view of IT equipment managed by KSX II applications. With CommandCenter, hundreds or even thousands of remote servers and serial devices, including virtual machines and hosts, can be managed from a single portal.
“The KSX II solution, along with the CommandCenter Secure Gateway Virtual Appliance, addresses real-world IT challenges where organizations have to manage a wide variety of servers and other IT equipment located in remote locations, as well as virtual and physical environments,” said Dominach Richard, product manager at Raritan. “The KSX II is a cost-effective solution that provides direct access for troubleshooting and restarting remote equipment. This allows IT administrators to be in multiple locations simultaneously, eliminating emergency trips to remote sites and making IT management easier. It also improves an organization’s productivity and uptime.”
The KSX II is targeted at the millions of computer rooms, labs, and data centers with serial racks and KVM control devices, as well as small and medium-sized businesses that have little or no on-site IT support.
Dominion KSX II is available in two models: DKSX2-144 (4 serial ports, 4 KVM ports) and DKSX2-188 (8 serial ports, 8 KVM ports). The integrated KSX II solution is priced at a fraction of the cost of assembling separate solutions, and also offers the added advantage of a unified, single sign-on web interface for secure management of all remote devices.
