Finally, a management appliance designed to help you manage servers in remote locations. DarkSite™ is a hardware-based remote management appliance that gives you the ability to monitor vital functions of servers in remote locations, receive notification when a problem occurs, and take action to correct the problem.

Adding DarkSite to your servers helps you meet the demand for continuous uptime and get on with your life, eliminating the need to be in front of the servers for monitoring and maintenance. 

DarkSite monitors any server.

The DarkSite™ remote management appliance is an embedded computer system, complete with its own operating system and Crystal’s exclusive DarkSite control panel. It functions independently from the host system, using only a PCI slot for power — so it’s at home in any brand of server. 

DarkSite gives you the information you need most.

DarkSite monitors CPU temperature, case temperature, voltages, and external (ambient) temperatures — critical data required to prevent downtime. When a small OS agent is installed on the host system, DarkSite will also monitor CPU idle time, memory availability, disk space availability, network usage, and host server "heartbeat".

Communicate securely with DarkSite using a standard browser.

Each DarkSite card is equipped with a web server, embedded Ethernet adapter and serial ports that are independent of the host server and the host server's operating system.  These features allow you to connect the DarkSite card to your network and easily access the DarkSite control panel from anywhere, anytime using a standard web browser.  Security concerns are addressed by allowing SSL connections to the system, and advanced users will feel right at home configuring DarkSite through Telnet. 

You will be the first to know when a problem occurs.

DarkSite allows you to select which hardware and software systems you want to monitor and how you want to be contacted.  The DarkSite system uses network connectivity to send alerts when a problem is detected. DarkSite is able to send alarms to any email-enabled device such as a pager, mobile phone, or PDA. And if you use SNMP to manage your facility, DarkSite can send SNMP traps as well. 

DarkSite lets you take action to help minimize downtime.