Avocent DSR Series DSR1010 Supplementary Manual

"I would rate the SwitchView IP
ten out of ten. It has certainly
exceeded our expectations and I
would highly recommend the
device as an effective solution to
manage multiple servers."
Stephen Fraser
Director of IT Services
Woodleigh School
Case Study
Woodleigh School learns valuable lesson
with Avocent remote access solution
Woodleigh School is an independent, co-educational school located on Victoria's Mornington
Peninsula in Australia. It comprises a Junior Campus in Frankston South and a Senior
Campus in Baxter. The school is unique compared to most other traditional independent
schools. As well as equipping the large majority of its students for tertiary study, it also
provides other important dimensions that prepare students for the challenges of life in the
twenty-first century.
Making use of the latest technology
Woodleigh School operates an innovative and dynamic IT environment. As well as core
business administration, the school runs a number of Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) classroom applications and its ICT centre consists of three laboratories
that are available for class and ad hoc student use. One laboratory has been specifically
developed as a multimedia production laboratory. Woodleigh School boasts a sophisticated
intranet portal – eWorkspace – and students have access to notebooks for class use. Work
is transferred between home and school via USB memory sticks or the Intranet portal.
Managing a growing environment
"To meet the requirements of our dynamic IT infrastructure, we currently have eleven
servers in mixed Netware 6.5 and Windows 2000 environments, split over the two campuses,"
said Stephen Fraser, director of IT services at Woodleigh School.
"Pre-November 2003, to perform any server related activity, our technicians had to
physically be in front of each server. So managing our server network was an increasingly
arduous task. I reasoned there had to be a more efficient way to manage the network."
The SwitchView IP device adds remote access capability to any existing KVM switch. It includes
BIOS-level control of servers and the security of 128bit SSL encryption during transmissions.
The Power of Being There
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