Raritan has announced enhancements and new interfaces for its CommandCenter remote management appliance, which provides unified views and secure, centralized control of servers and other IT devices in data centers and branch offices.

The new release of CommandCenter provides support for HP’s Lights-Out management technologies and tighter integration of analog and digital KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch environments. HP servers with Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) embedded chips and the more than half million HP servers with Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) or RILOE II cards can now be connected to a CommandCenter management network.

CommandCenter provides a unique one-screen view of all IT equipment and one-click BIOS-level access to target devices, by integrating into a single, logical command-and-control network the IT equipment managed by Raritan's KVM switches, serial console servers and, now, HP servers with iLO chips or RILOE cards.

Raritan also introduced a new interface device -- Paragon II System Controller (P2-SC) -- that integrates Raritan's Paragon II analog, Cat5 KVM switches into a CommandCenter network. With P2-SC, multiple Paragon II switches, and the servers that are connected to these switches, can be accessed and controlled with CommandCenter. As a result, CommandCenter is able to manage analog KVM switches and digital appliances, including Raritan's Dominion KX KVM-over-IP switches and Dominion SX serial-over-IP console servers.

"IT organizations are always looking to reduce IT expenditures, optimize resources, and enhance security and equipment performance," said Marshall Shah, product manager at Raritan Computer. "CommandCenter's unique ability to manage both analog and digital switches through one interface means that any device located anywhere in a customer's enterprise can be viewed and accessed. This further helps IT administrators to resolve incidents more quickly and efficiently."