An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
For as long as organizations have been deploying technology to run their operations, what we now call “the edge” has been a challenge. Whether it was warehouses, distributions centers, or small regional offices, keeping that technology running — and most challenging, resolving failures — has been the stuff of infrastructure sleepless nights for decades. With the advent of IoT and edge computing, those uncomfortable nights are morphing into full-fledged nightmares.
Uplogix has developed a smart, out-of-band management approach that it thinks can help solve this problem for good. The company’s solution is a combination of hardware and software that connects via the console port of an edge network deployment and monitors the edge infrastructure stack for signs of disruption. Most importantly, when it detects a failure, it both initiates a secondary connection to the centralized management apparatus (e.g., a NOC) and can automatically take runbook-like actions to remediate the situation.
The company calls its solution a “network admin in a box,” and says that in addition to just monitoring and automated remediation, it can also initiate site-based testing of critical apps (e.g., VoIP or targeted HTTP calls). Moreover, upon establishing a secondary connection to the NOC during an outage, it backfills centralized management tools with site data, erasing data gaps and enabling IT management to maintain complete oversight and attention to service.
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