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I assembled a robust facsimile of a branch office under Dominion's control in minutes, with user profiles for administration of servers, switches, a router and a wireless access point. Getting the box live on the network was simple, and with help from Raritan's technical staff, the Java beast in my Windows XP laptop was tamed. The first over-the-network views of my network were striking, and the video quality and mouse/keyboard response was outstanding. I tested the box at both 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps at either end of the session on the same LAN segment as my PC, through my ISP connection (15 total hops), from a wireless hotspot and via 56-Kbps modem. There was only the slightest perceived latency over the modem during the HTTPS sessions.
Business as Usual
The remote client software used to connect to the Dominion KSX is laid out well, with easily navigated table-of-contents views for each KSX in use. In one glance, an administrator can see the deployed Dominions and attached devices, and
easily launch to each. From there, the tasks that can be performed are limitless. I patched an old Windows 98 machine, checked associations on a wireless access point, put access-control lists on a router to defend against the latest worms, and rebooted a Linux machine in various sessions to simulate the day-to-day needs a KSX might address. All tasks were performed easily, securely and efficiently, and in a single session.
Lee Badman is a network engineer at Syracuse University. Write to him at [email protected].
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