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Using Your Altos eXpress Console
The Altos eXpress Console has a user-friendly Graphics User Interface
(GUI) - a standard Internet browser. This article will make you become
familiar with the Altos eXpress Console. Each function will be
described clearly.
Altos eXpress Console provides lots of benefits to users:
System monitoring
Altos eXpress Console provides detail information through Web UI,
including system information reading, system health overview, sensors
reading, System Event Log reading. And an obvious picture with green,
amber or red color in system health overview and sensor reading will
greatly help users to understand system status.
Remote system management
Altos eXpress Console provides KVM/IP (Console Redirection). KVM can
let users fully control system in operating system stage or even in
booting stage. Users can remotely power on, off, reset system through
Altos eXpress Console in band or out-of-band. Altos eXpress Console
implements media redirection for the CD/DVD ROM drive and floppy
drive. This feature enables remote installation of the operating system
or applications.
Notification
Altos eXpress Console implements 2 kind methods, SNMP trap and E-
mail, to inform someone or some management software when system
status changed.
Cross platform
Altos eXpress Console uses a standard HTTP protocol. Users can easily
use a standard Internet browser to remotely manage Altos servers on
different operating system. Altos eXpress Console also provides cross-
platform JAVA-based KVM (Console Redirection).