nokLINK Agent™ is a highly scalable, embedded remote device management platform, allowing centralised administration through the nokCENTER secure command and control console.
nokLINK Agent™ is capable of spanning multiple networks. It easily navigates through firewalls and proxy servers, creating a distributed management platform for workstations, servers and unattended public devices. nokAGENT also provides enterprise-class management for Kiosks, ATMs, POS devices and digital displays. Automatic system notifications provide administrators real-time, immediate network visibility.
How does it work?
Spin Networks' nokLINK Agent™, is a rule-based, event management system that allows administrators to control and manage intelligent devices, whether remote or local to a network, through a simple to use web-based management console. nokLINK Agent™ supplies 'keep-alive' and watchdog functionality that vastly improves customer's uptime performance. nokLINK Agent™ provides real-time reporting and log handling, to ensure critical information is available at your fingertips.
nokLINK Agent™ is a simple yet powerful management tool that delivers vastly reduced administration costs and far superior Total Cost of Ownership. Deployment is comparatively rapid and simple, freeing system administrators from complex network setup (VPN and firewall configuration) across multiple domains without the penalty of expensive hardware and software investment. nokLINK Agent™ provides fine-grained control of remote devices, enabling a responsive control environment, mitigating downtime, and the need for physical proximity to rectify local problems. nokLINK Agent™ brings Enterprise-class administration functionality within the reach and budget of non-Enterprise IT managers.
Key Benefits
- Real Time Reports
- 2-Way Communications
- Easy to Deploy
- Small Footprint
- Enterprise Class
- Network Independent
- Highly Scalable
- Powerful Report Engine
- Fast Integration
- Web based control panel via NokCENTER
- Open system provides extensibility via 3rd party plug-ins
- Centralized distribution
Rich Feature Set
nokLINK Agent™ is the 2 way communication and management "Agent" typically installed on kiosks, ATMs, POS Gateways, managed workstations, and remote servers. nokLINK Agent™ is used to automate the management and synchronization of settings from a central Network Operations Centre to distributed devices. nokLINK Agent™ can be deployed and managed on any machine which has an internet connection regardless of connection type.
- Capable of spanning multiple networks, navigating through firewall's and proxy servers.
- Active Response System automatically manages potential service interruptions, hardware malfunctions and 3rd party systems, mitigating the need for on-site personnel.
- Automatic system notifications provide administrators immediate network visibility.
- Create and Distribute management rules to single units, workgroups or an entire network of devices in one simple step.
- Centralized configuration settings and managment.
- On-line / off-line status is available at all times. Change of status is logged and administrators can be notified automatically when status changes.
- Schedule downloads, content updates and applications upgrades.
- Create operating rules to trigger actions automatically if an error occurs.
- Distribute and run scripts, batch files and command lines remotely.
- Integrate and use other communication and management protocols for hardware monitoring.
- Securely access applications and systems remotelyy.
- Monitor3rd party logs, automatically generate event notices and dispatch personnel automatically.
nokLINK Agent™ is a response to the evolutionary need for managing remote, intelligent, but unattended, devices. "Intelligent Device Management" or IDM harnesses a typical PC-based device or system capable of handling complex tasks and manages that device as if an IT person were present with full control and access. Today, the capabilities of intelligent "devices" are far more advanced than the systems available to manage them.
nokLINK Agent™ functionality exploits this disparity by turning a typical computer and user interface into an appliance-level solution capable of adapting to its environment. In certain definable circumstances when adaptation is not suitable as an automated response, nokLINK Agent™ intermediates by issuing notifications to ensure correct human intervention is taken.
nokLINK Agent™ provides highly customized event scheduling and peripheral management. nokLINK Agent™ provides all the tools necessary to automatically manage peripherals, logs, applications, content and consumables. The scheduling system is flexible enough to extend as requirements change, provide scheduling for content distribution, updates, installations and removals, all through the easy to use interface. In addition, because the nokLINK Agent™ was built with 3rd party software in mind, it can be extended to manage and interact with 3rd party applications with ease.
For Systems Integrators, Accelerated Time-to-Market
Choosing nokLINK Agent™ saves significant time and effort that would otherwise go into building a management framework. With a rich set of event monitoring functions... With a comprehensive set of trigger/action pairs you can invest your time improving your network management solution with value-added features targeted at your customers' needs, rather than spending time on re-inventing the wheel. For example Syslog Monitoring is offered as a standard feature, to monitor Syslog messaging from devices. nokLINK Agent™ robust, open and extensible architecture enables you get all the benefits of a proven control framework without limitations.
nokLINK Agent™ minimizes the risk, and reduces the time and effort of developing a remote device control system offering complete control throughout the development cycle. It also reduces time-to-deployment and the cost of development with its comprehensive Event/Action architecture. nokLINK Agent™ and nokLINK Central™ provide a comprehensive command and control system that enables:
- Reduced Development Time
- Simplified Deployment
- Reduced Risk
- Quicker Time to Market