Feature Summary
Lab Access
- Provide 24 x 7 access to your lab equipment
- Network appliance that can reside at your location with your lab equipment
- Connect to real network equipment (no simulation)
- Use the same lab equipment for classroom lectures, individual access, or team access
- Conduct distance learning, traditional classroom training, or a combination of both
- Provision lab access through a scheduler
- Share a single connection - every keystroke, command, and response is simultaneously viewed by all users
- Instructors may override control of a shared connection from trainees
- Replay a connection to see recent input and output on a device
- Use s third party Telnet application or the built-in default terminal application
- Personalize profile settings (time zone, e-mail, Telnet client preference)
Lab Automation
- Automatically initialize lab to last configuration or predefined configuration
- Perform automated operations on a single device or entire lab simultaneously
- Detect and reset console speed, recover from erased flash (optional), and clear configuration (scrub)
- Password recovery
- Power devices on or off
Assessment
- Automatically archive commands, output, and configuration files from student or team reservations for later review and assessment
- Review archives using an online log viewer
- Commands entered during the lab session are indexed in chronological order with hyperlinks to corresponding device output for easy review
- E-mail archived data to the instructor automatically
Configuration Management
- Easily load or save configuration files by device or entire lab
- Lab configuration automatically saved at the end of each reservation
- Manage or edit saved configuration files in your personalized directory with the File Manager
- Create new config files without tying up your network equipment
Class Management
- Create and edit class profiles with the Class Manager
- Organize trainee accounts and teams
- Support multiple classes with different attributes and policies
- Restrict how often a trainee or team can reserve lab equipment
- Enable or disable student logins for each user or entire class
- Define retention period for archived logs and configurations files
Easy Administration
- Requires no knowledge of UNIX or system administration
- Web-based administration interface
- Comprehensive diagnostic tools to verify connections and configurations
- Proactive Internet based monitoring and support services
- Software updates delivered via the Internet
- No backup server required
- Automatic time synchronization
- Security and integrity monitoring
- Online viewing of system logs