Opengear - Console Server
Centralized Management Appliance - Lighthouse
A single point of management for your entire out-of-band infrastructure.

A single point of management for your entire out-of-band infrastructure.
Opengear Lighthouse builds on the capabilities of Opengear’s data center and remote site management appliances to provide a single point of management for your entire out-of-band infrastructure.
Lighthouse delivers consolidated, secure access to failed or firewalled remote networks and to critical infrastructure scattered across tens or thousands of racks or remote sites. Reach management consoles without in-depth knowledge of network topology or operational state, using your existing credentials, tools and workflow. By seamlessly converging all management network connections – via primary management LAN, 3G or 4G LTE failover or dial-out out-of-band – Lighthouse takes the complexity out of managing distributed network, power and IT infrastructure, to reduce MTTR and minimize the impact of faults and failure.
With Lighthouse, best-practice security is maintained even during remote network outages, with strong encryption, audit-trail logging and resilient pass-through central authentication. Opengear with Lighthouse centralized management gives you the peace of mind that your infrastructure is operating optimally. And when it’s not, it provides the tools to respond and repair, securely and efficiently.
Opengear Lighthouse is optimized for your environment, and can be supplied as a hardware appliance or virtual server appliance. The Lighthouse VM virtual server appliance ships ready to be deployed on your hosted or in-house VMware or Linux KVM virtual environment. The Lighthouse Standard and Lighthouse Enterprise hardware appliance models are shipped on Dell™ 19” rack mounted servers.
Highly available access and control of network, IT and power infrastructure for initial provisioning, ongoing maintenance and incident response. Enable operators to reach remote consoles without requiring in-depth knowledge of how they’re connected, and authenticate using their corporate AAA credentials.
Implement network routing and firewall policy changes with confidence, minimize on-site call outs and truck rolls. Monitor customer premises equipment, environment and network availability. Manage equipment where inbound access would otherwise be impractical or impossible, such as in hospitals or behind third-party firewalls. Differentiate your service offering and increase client satisfaction.
Access and control thousands of managed consoles and PDU outlets from a single IP. Support for low-level scripting to automate lab setup, testing and tear down.
Secure access to remote devices via cellular, broadband or dial-up, with efficient out-of-band access from anywhere, anytime
Managers can use their preferred SSH client or HTTPS browser for secure access from anywhere – be it a NOC, laptop, or mobile device. Delivers a convenient single point of management access to remote devices scattered across hundreds or thousands of remote location
Security made simple, all sensitive management sessions encrypted with strong cipher HTTPS or SSH and optional VPN. Pass-through authentication uses central AAA credentials to manage remote consoles. Log and authenticate all access even during remote site outages.
Opengear cellular appliances at remote sites Call Home to Lighthouse over 3G and 4G LTE cellular for highly available remote access to failed or firewalled remote networks, or during provisioning of new network installs.
Intuitive dial-out PPP connections to Opengear appliances via a central or distributed pool of analog modems. Modems may be distributed globally to overcome international line quality issues and minimize call costs
Search and sort managed devices with smart groups. Quickly drill down by geography, application or connection type, whether you have 5 or 5,000 Opengear appliances deployed.
Parachuting Opengear Console Access Server The Call Home feature can be utilized to parachute a preconfigured Opengear Console Access Server in a branch with strict firewall policies without having to change any policies of the firewall. Since the appliances are pre-configured by the vendor to initiate a connection with the Central Management Server using reverse SSH. This allows any newly configured Console Access Server to inform CMS about its location and also is able to connect with the CMS ready to be accessed and configured
Another handy and highly worthy benefit of Call Home is that the Opengear Server are equipped with 4G modems and via reverse SSH they can communicate with the CMS since they are equipped with a pre-defined key. Thus, there remains no need for a Public IP in order to have the tunnel in place for communication.
Recommended For
Up to 5,000 managed appliances
Up to 1,000 managed appliances
Up to 5,000 managed appliances
Format
Virtual Machine
19″ 1U optimized server
19″ 1U optimized server
Processor
500MHz CPU Core minimum
Intel Xeon E3-1220 3.1GHz
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.4GHz
Hard Drive
4GB minimum
500GB
600GB
RAM
256MB minimum
4GB
32GB
Supported Environments
Linux Kernel-based VM; VMware ESX, ESXi and Server
Network Adapters
Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Hardware RAID
Included
Dual Power Supplies
Included
Support
Standard Factory Hardware Support Included
Standard Factory Hardware Support Included