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CHAPTER 2: PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Boxilla is a state-of-the-art KVM and AV/IT Manager designed to provide pro-active support to the System Manager and enable
efficient operation of KVM and AV systems. Its core focus is to provide simple mechanisms to discovery, configure, upgrade
and monitor the deployed systems. It provides insight into performance of the deployed system and alerts the System Manager
to potential performance or security issues. Comprehensive features include:
Š automatic search and detection of Black Box products (discovery),
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Š device configuration across multiple sites,
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Š configuration backup,
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Š central upgrades,
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Š performance and security statistics with user-defined triggers for alerts.
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Using the intuitive Boxilla web-based interface, one or more administrators can manage potentially thousands of users who are
interacting with an almost unlimited number of devices. Boxilla operates as a self-contained compact server unit that can be
located anywhere within your network. Boxilla is supplied pre-loaded and is straightforward to deploy, requiring only a network
connection and a power input to begin operation.
The current version of Boxilla provides management of Black Box's InvisaPC system and Modular and Compact DKM KVM Matrix
Switches. The InvisaPC system provides users with a seamless desktop experience anywhere on a TCP/IP network, while allowing
the actual hardware to be securely housed in a corporate data center or in the cloud.
InvisaPC enables the same high-fidelity experience of a desktop PC even for media-rich applications, for example, watching videos,
photo editing with Photoshop or 3D design with AutoCAD. The remote desktops may be hosted on a physical PC / workstation or
may be a virtual desktop hosted on a private server or in the cloud. The InvisaPC system provides its users with Receivers that
communicate with target compute nodes (whether physical PC or virtual desktop) over a standard TCP/IP network. Physical PCs/
Workstations/Servers have an InvisaPC Transmitter unit physically connected to provide communication over the TCP/IP network.
The performance of InvisaPC allows them to be deployed on standard corporate networks and even across Wide-Area-Networks
(WANs).
Desktop users can use remote keyboard, mouse, video, audio, USB mass storage devices, headsets and other USB devices from
the Receiver unit to the remote PC/workstations or Virtual Desktop via the InvisaPC system.
NOTE: References to the InvisaPC system or Modular or Compact DKM KVM Switch systems in this document refer to both
Receivers and Transmitters.
An InvisaPC system can be composed of just Receivers and Transmitters. In these types of systems—called unmanaged— there
is no central management. Each device needs to be configured individually and upgraded individually. Often to keep the system in
sync, the admin exports the configuration from one Receiver and imports it to all other Receivers using a USB Flash Drive.
For larger configurations, a central manager is needed—Boxilla. Boxilla operates as a central manager for a "managed domain."
A managed domain is a collection of InvisaPC Receivers and Transmitters managed by a Boxilla. Once a Receiver or Transmitter
has been added to a managed domain, it can only communicate with other Receivers or Transmitters within this managed domain.
They are not able to communicate to "unmanaged" devices or devices that are part of a different managed domain (i.e., a domain
managed by a different manager). Boxilla is used to configure users, connections, hotkeys and other parameters. The database
created on the Boxilla is synchronized to each Receiver on a Boxilla user login. If the Boxilla for the managed domain is not
reachable (e.g. powered-down), the Receiver will use the last updated database. This ensures that there is no single point of failure
in the managed domain. Users can login and connections can be made even if the manager of the domain is not reachable.
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