Alcatel-Lucent l VitalQIP Appliance Manager
Summary of Features and Benefits
PLATFORM
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Integration with the market leading VitalQIP software
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Centralized appliance management data store to keep track of services and status of remote appliances
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Automated software upgrade capability with rollback options
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Highly secure communication between AMS and appliances with unique appliance key generation
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Logical grouping of appliances for ease of upgrades
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Software version history maintained per appliance in AMS
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Remote start/stop/initialize of services
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High availability using heartbeat and virtual address mechanism
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Retrieval of log/config files from appliances
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Connect, configure and go model for appliance activation
SERVICES
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Industry’s highest performance DHCP server – enabling rapid IP address
assignment for the delivery of robust IP services
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VitalQIP DNS server (BIND 9 based) – enabling rapid address resolution
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VitalQIP SNMP Service
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NTP Service for time synchronization among appliances
SECURITY
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Security hardened version of Red Hat Linux OS
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Limited port access
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Unique secret key exchanged between centralized software and each appliance for authentication
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Authorized appliance access is granted by centralized AMS administrator
VitalQIP Appliance Performance –
A Price Performance Leading Solution
AMM 5000:
NEBS compliant with RAID 1 and
dual power supplies
AMM 1000:
Standard appliance
Leases per second
6,455
5,100
Queries per second
93,850
75,800
