173Using Your Altos eXpress ConsoleThe Altos eXpress Console has a user-friendly Graphics User Interface(GUI) - a standard Internet browser. This article will make you becomefamiliar with the Altos eXpress Console. Each function will bedescribed clearly.Altos eXpress Console provides lots of benefits to users:System monitoringAltos eXpress Console provides detail information through Web UI,including system information reading, system health overview, sensorsreading, System Event Log reading. And an obvious picture with green,amber or red color in system health overview and sensor reading willgreatly help users to understand system status.Remote system managementAltos eXpress Console provides KVM/IP (Console Redirection). KVM canlet users fully control system in operating system stage or even inbooting stage. Users can remotely power on, off, reset system throughAltos eXpress Console in band or out-of-band. Altos eXpress Consoleimplements media redirection for the CD/DVD ROM drive and floppydrive. This feature enables remote installation of the operating systemor applications.NotificationAltos eXpress Console implements 2 kind methods, SNMP trap and E-mail, to inform someone or some management software when systemstatus changed.Cross platformAltos eXpress Console uses a standard HTTP protocol. Users can easilyuse a standard Internet browser to remotely manage Altos servers ondifferent operating system. Altos eXpress Console also provides cross-platform JAVA-based KVM (Console Redirection).
