Fully loaded IoT, POD, Retail, and Remote Office IT infrastructure management in a Bold little box
Nodegrid Bold provides secure access and control for managing remote devices at the EDGE of your network.
Overview
Nodegrid Bold is fast, secure, versatile and reliable. Bold in features and capabilities, Nodegrid Bold supports a variety of connection methods: serial, console, network, USB, Wi-Fi, Cellular Modem. You get In-Band and Out-of-Band power control, sensors and IT device health monitoring, alert notifications, actionable data, network backup, and more!
ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid Bold provides smart, consolidated out-of-band access and control of your edge IT equipment. In case your store’s router goes down, Bold automatically senses the network failure and activates your choice of cellular modem, over a cellular carrier and mobile plan of your choice. ZPE does not lock you into one or two predetermined cellular providers.
Nodegrid Bold simultaneously provision a seamless SSL VPN experience with your choice of static, dynamic or private IP address – so you don’t have to wonder what your store’s new IP address is during a severe IT breakdown event. ZPE’s Instant SSL VPN creates a tunnel back to corporate with the same exact IP address as before so your customers and employees are no worse for wear.
In fact, Bold offers more than just SSL client & server VPN capability to retail and remote office customers. Want to consolidate IT hardware in each store? Add backup capability? Add more IP addresses, Wi-Fi and networking capacity?
Features
- Minimizes MTTR, downtime and expenses with secure, centralized remote device access & control
- Increases site reliability with open industry standard hardware, and easy-to-use software
- Flexible and Expandable – add-on cards for more Serial, USB, or Ethernet ports
- Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for fast setup in remote locations
- Failover to 4G/LTE modem, Gateway and multi-routing table capability
- Power control and monitoring – get alerts on sub-optimal IT device health and solve problems automatically
- Extended Automation based on actionable real-time data
- Modern 64-bit Linux kernel for fast security patching and widespread software availability
- Direct Linux shell, HTML5 cross-device web access and command line interface
- Docker-optimized for flexible script and application integration Integrates with ZPE Systems Nodegrid Manager vendor-neutral, unified management solution
- Orchestration – Puppet and Chef
- Access Normalization, Control and Monitoring for EDGE devices
- Horizontal & Vertical Scaling and Auto-discovery Configuration
- Policy-based Authentication, Authorization and Auditing
- Automatic Event Tracking and Actionable Data
- Multi-port Hardware and Multi-vendor devices
- Failover to 4G/LTE USB modem of your choice
- Wi-Fi ready (via internal card or external USB) for hotspot or client
- Dual Gb Ethernet ports with:
- Multiple Routing Table capability
- Interface Bonding for Failover / Throughput
- Bridge Mode for Cascading Network Devices
- Failover to 4G/LTE USB modem
Applications
Extend Security to the Edge
Nodegrid Bold operates on the EDGE of the network while keeping things safe and secure. With SSL VPN, IPsec, Firewall and TLS 1.2 capabilities built in, you can rest assured knowing that your EDGE network vulnerabilities associated with other OOB solutions are made secure with Nodegrid Bold.
Here’s where customers are using Nodegrid Manager:
Specifications
| Hardware Specifications | |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Dual-core x86_64 CPU |
| Memory & Storage |
4 GB of DDR3 DRAM, 32 GB SATA SSD |
| Interfaces | 6 RS-232 serial ports on DB9 2 GbE ports on RJ45 4 USB 3.0 Host on Type A connector 4 USB 2.0 Hosts on Type A connector 1 Wi-Fi port (optional) 1 VGA/HDMI output port 1 Keyboard, 1 mouse, 1 speaker, 1 mic |
| Software Specifications | |
| Port Access | Direct access by port name, TCP port, device name and IPv4/IPv6 address High performance port login: <1 sec on SSH, <3 sec on Telnet 1,000+ simultaneous sessions Port sharing Command line interface (CLI) Port custom field support, port icon configuration, port search Device clustering across multiple Nodegrid units DeviceURL™ instant bookmarks, FireTrail™ secure tunnels Break-over SSH support Power Management integration within serial session |
| System Management | Extensible automated control based on actionable data, Web GUI management, command line interface (CLI), Linux root shell IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack with IP forwarding support, Multi Routing Protocol, DHCP (client/server), Network Failover and Network Bonding (back-up & round-robin) Additional Network Failover to 4G/LTE cellular modem via USB Wi-Fi hotspot (server by default or client) Fine Grain with multiple and customizable user levels of access Auto-discovery of devices via network scan Auto-discovery of attached serial devices (hostname discovery) Custom field support Search for any device information, including custom fields, to quickly access your device Geo Map coordinates NTP support, global time zone support SNMP Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for configuration and firmware updates Vendor-neutral hyper-converged console management solution HTML5 viewer (serial console, embedded KVM via IPMI and KVM) – no Java. Support for Docker application integration Monitoring capability via SNMP, IPMI and SSH with custom support Orchestration Integration: Puppet, Chef and Nodegrid Manager |
| Access Protocols | HTTPS, SSHv1 and SSHv2, optional HTTP and Telnet |
| Device View Options | Tree, Table, Geo Map, Node and WEB with NodeIQ™ natural language search |
| Managed Power Devices – Out of Band | Cyclades/Avocent, Legrand/Raritan, ServerTech, Emerson/Liebert, APC/Schneider |
| Security | X.509 SSH certificate support, 4096-bit encryption keys Selectable Cryptographic protocols for SSH and HTTPs (TLSv1.2, TLSv1.1, TLSv1) Cypher suite levels: high, medium, low, custom Local, AD/LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Kerberos authentication Local, backup-user authentication support Group/role-based authorization: AD/LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+ Port access, power access, appliance privilege Firewall via IP packet and security filtering User-access lists per port SSL VPN – Client and Server IPsec with support for multi sites System configuration checksum™ System event syslog Configurable IP forwarding support Custom security with secure default settings Strong password enforcement |
| Data Logging | Local port buffering – 20MB per port Local, NFS, syslog, off-line data logging Time stamp and rotation for data logging |
| Event Destination | Email, syslog, local |
| Alert Notifications | Syslog, email |
| Software Delivery Format | Installed out-of-box Downloadable upgrades with support for PXE boot, network upgrade, ZTP upgrades |
| Operating System | Built-in 64-bit Linux kernel 4.x and Yocto-based CustomKit™ SDK |
| Infrastructure Specifications | |
| Power | 12 VDC via external 100–30% VAC, 50/60 Hz adapter Power consumption 25 W typical |
| Physical | Dimensions (L x W x H): 220 x 220 x 45 mm (8.7 x 8.7 x 1.8 in), 1U Weight: 1.2 kg (2.6 lb), depending on options Shipping weight: 2.3 kg (5.0 lb) Shipping size (L x W x H): 270 x 280 x 150 mm (10.6 x 11 x 5.9 in) |
| Environmental | Operation: 0 to 50 C (32 to 122F), 20-90% RH, non-condensing Storage: -20 to 67 C (-4 to 153 F), 10-90% RH, non-condensing |
| Supported Browsers | Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer |
Ordering Information
| Bold Model | Description |
|---|---|
| NGB-T6-BASE | Bold unit, 6-port serial, 4 USB 3.0, 4 USB 2.0, 2 GbE, DC power adapter, 2-Cores, 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD |
| NGB-T6W-BASE | Bold unit, 6-port serial, 4 USB 3.0, 4 USB 2.0, 2 GbE, DC power adapter, 2-Cores, 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, internal Wi-Fi |
| Accessory | Description |
|---|---|
| Z000036 | RJ45F (NSC Txx Cyclades pinout) to DB9F cross converter |
| Z000200 | RJ45F (NSC Txx Cyclades pinout) to DB9F straight converter |
| Z000039 | RJ45F (NSC Txx Cyclades pinout) to RJ45M Sun/Cisco cross converter |
| Z000015 | RJ45F (NSC TxxR Cisco pinout) to DB9F cross converter |
| NGB-PSU | 12 VDC external 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz power adapter |