Appro BladeDome - Remote Server Management for Appro GreenBlade System

The Appro BladeDome Management solution is designed exclusively for the Appro GreenBlade Series to provide system administrators with in-depth understanding and notification on all hardware subsystems while delivering a simplified and cost-effective management solution.


Appro BladeDome Features:
Status Summary
BladeDome Monitor is easy to set up and manage. Red, yellow and green lights indicate the health of your servers. This management tool lets you drill down into your hardware subsystems to check the status of each server.

Failure Notifications
Send a customized e-mail that alerts specified individuals when operating conditions exceed predefined thresholds.

Remote Management Capability
It provides in-band and out-of-band remote management capability. If a node falters or stops functioning, the system administrator is able to locally or remotely power up another node for load balancing.

Platform Monitoring
Thermal sensors continuously monitor system temperatures, fan-fail, over-temperature and voltage. The Power Status shows which servers are on and off. The Power Delay allows users to configure the sequence that power is turned on or off for each server in a cluster. This helps avoid power in-rush at start-up, and allows users to predetermine which server will be turned on first.

Configuration and Server Admin
Remote Server Admin tools let you configure and monitor all key services of the GreenBlade System — locally or remotely. If you prefer using a terminal window, Server Admin provides extensive command line tools to configure, monitor and manage your systems remotely. Shell scripts can easily be built for custom management needs. And if network services are down, BladeDome Admin tools is equipped with a serial port that lets Linux-savvy administrators access the system through a serial console session.

Any stand alone server or compute node can be an Appro BladeDome Management Server – a unique management appliance combining the functionalities of serial console server and intelligent power management, to provide both serial and power management capabilities in one. Integrated with Appro BladeDome Remote Management Software, it provides node power control, automatic platform fan speed control, and platform health monitoring.


Features
- Remotely manages up to thousands of compute nodes through support for Management and Sub-management servers
- Security via User ID & Password using SSH / SHA
- Utilizes a Management or Sub-management server to monitor through a iSCB (intelligent Shelf Controller Board) module as a integral part of the GreenBlade Sub-rack.
- Web interface option for platform management