nControl

I/O Management for I/O Virtualization Appliances

The nControl I/O management software provides a web GUI, and command line interface as well as SNMP support to configure and monitor products enabled with NextIO vConnect™ I/O virtualization switching technology.

To simplify switch administration, nControl includes a configuration wizard to streamline deployment and interface with 3rd party management tools.

Intelligent Management of Shared IO Resources

  • Using the route management capability of nControl, systems administrators can easily re-assign non-shared I/O devices or shared I/O resources to different servers.
  • Using the bandwidth monitoring capabilities, additional I/O devices may be brought online remotely and assigned to the effected server.
  • nControl software provides out-of-band communication to shared I/O devices independent of server power status. This allows administrators or management policies to initialize and configure I/O devices prior to server power. This capability provides the flexibility to coordinate fabric management one time and not each time a new server and I/O device is brought into production.
  • To help safeguard critical information and manage switch resources, administrators may control data access to users through nControl's access control lists.

System Monitor

Systems administrators can monitor system activity and create alert levels to prompt appropriate action. There are seven alert levels from which actions can be taken: INFO, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, ALERT, EMERENCY. Customized logs can be created and exported remotely.

Switch Module Security

To help safeguard critical information and manage system resources, systems administrators may control data access to users and ACL's that require local authentication

System Recovery

Upon deployment and periodically thereafter, NextIO nControl™ software can export images of the configurations, journals and logs of the managed product and store the information to remote locations. These exported files can be used to quickly restore a switch's configuration or used in a rapid deployment model for new switches brought online.