digisBMS Management Features
digisBMS is a mainly web-based control system for your server and account. It has direct control over the virtual hardware layer of your system. Therefore, when the user issues a power cycle command through the web interface, the system is power cycled at the virtual hardware level. The system would reboot, even if the kernel panics/hangs. In addition to the basic features such as power cycling, it also has many value added tools that is not available anywhere else. Here is a quick feature summary of digisBMS -
- Remote Power ( Start / Restart / Stop )
- Real-Time Traffic / Bandwidth Query
- QuickInstall : Instant OS Installation
- QuickRefresh : Instant OS Refresh
- QuickConfig : Instant software configuration and installation
- QuickConsole : Out of Band Serial Console
- DNS Management Features
Remote Power ( Start / Restart / Stop )
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With digisBMS, the user can instantly hard reboot or stop your server from
any web browser connected to the internet. Although it may take up to 5
minutes for the system to reboot and regain network connectivity, the
user does not have to wait in the dark as all our OS
images are configured to use the serial console as the main console.
You will be able to use the bootloader and see kernel and boot messages
during your boot while logged in with QuickConsole. |
Real-Time Traffic / Bandwitdh Query
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Our traffic reporting system contains up to date information for each
IP address assigned to your server. The user can query for a specific
range in time for traffic statistics. The resulting output consists of
both a graph of the traffic pattern and a traffic summary. The
same database is used for calculating bandwidth quota for all of our clients. |
QuickInstall : Instant OS Installation
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QuickInstall is our exclusive server operating system installation /
re-installation system. It gives the user a choice of operating
systems to install. Currently, we offer over 10 different operating
systems to choose from, in a variety of different flavors. Installation
take at most 5 minutes, although the system may take a little longer to
start up networking and work itself up to the state where the user can
login. QuickInstall works by keeping a central repository of OS images.
When a installation request arrives, the system will fetch the OS image
from the repositry and decompresses the OS image for the server
overwriting any existing OS. When the server is started after the
installation has been complete, the new OS will boot. |
QuickRefresh : Instant OS Refresh
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QuickRefresh is a variation of QuickInstall that allows the user to
instantly re-install the current OS on the server instantly. As the
current OS image is kept in a local cache folder, the image does not
need to be refetched from the central image server, resulting in a
faster re-install. This feature is especially useful for custom OS
installations where the custom OS is not available in the QuickInstall
menu. It is also very useful for Windows system, as most Windows
systems are custom configured and you will not be able to install
Windows from the QuickInstall menu. (A solution to automatically
configure Windows is under development. When finished, the user will be
able to reinstall any operating system they have rights to, including
Windows) |
QuickConfig : Instant software configuration and installation
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QuickConfig is Diginode's exclusive web-based system configuration system that allows users to install or remove software and configuration elements from their servers. At the moment the user is able to change the root / Administrator passwords for their server, as well as installing standard software modules (such as Webmin) on their servers. QuickConfig utilizes SSH technology to login to the server and carry out the required commands and can be disabled if desired by the user. |
QuickConsole : Out of Band Serial Console
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When the network interface of the server is not active, normally there is no other way for the user to access the server. Diginode recognized this problem and introduced QuickConsole, a serial console system included with all our servers that can be accessed securely over the Internet with SSH. By using QuickConsole and QuickRestart, the user is able to completely view and interact with the boot proceedure. As all of the bootloaders in the OS images provided by Diginode is serial console enable, using QuickConsole also allows the user total control over kernel selection on other bootloader related features. Aside from the boot process, QuickConsole is also indispensible when reconfiguring a network interface or for any administrative activity in which the network interface is unavailable. |
DNS Management Features
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The built-in DNS management features of digisBMS allows the user to create and manage DNS zones pointed at the Diginode xDNS nameservers (xdns1.diginode.net and xdns2.diginode.net). The user is able to add, modify or delete zones and zone records in real-time through the web-interface. By utilizing a real-time relational database backend for DNS data, all changes to the domain information is reflected immediately. |

