nControl - Switch and Resource Management

Switch Management

The nControl management software provides a web GUI, Command Line Interface and SNMP support to configure and monitor the NextIO switch products. To simplify switch administration, nControl includes a configuration Wizard to streamline deployment and interface with 3rd party management tools.

Dynamic I/O Assignment

Using the route management of nControl, 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 needed root complex.

Unified I/O Management

nControl software provides out-of-band communication to shared endpoint 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 administrators the flexibility to coordinate fabric management one time and not each time a new server and I/O device comes online.

Switch Management Security

To help safeguard critical information and manage switch resources, administrators may control data access to Users through nControl's Access Control Lists.

System Monitor

Administrators can monitor system activity and create alert levels to prompt appropriate action. Customized log filters can be created for local and remote logging of all system alerts.

System Recovery

Upon deployment (and periodically, thereafter) the 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.