Out-of-band Management

When the production path is down, the out-of-band path is how you get in. vConfig treats console servers as first-class assets and gives you a browser console through them.

Two tabs

• OOB devices — the console servers themselves: data center, name, management IP, vendor, model, type, connection type, account, status and description.
• Credential store — named credentials with encrypted passwords. One can be marked default. Passwords are never echoed back to the browser.

Console access

Out-of-band console access is menu-driven: vConfig logs into the console server, walks its menu, and lands you on the port you asked for. From the bastion the OOB path looks the same as a direct SSH session — same terminal, same recording, same audit trail.

Port names

On typical console servers the port name is close to the device hostname, sometimes with a suffix for redundant routing engines (…RE0, …RE1). Name the ports to match your hostnames and the mapping stays obvious a year later.

Why keep it in the same platform

The value is not the terminal — it is that the console path is inventoried, permissioned and recorded like everything else:

• who has access is decided by the same roles,
• sessions are recorded and replayable,
• the credential store is shared with the rest of the platform rather than living in someone's password manager.