Lantronix has launched the SLC 9000, an out-of-band (OOB) console manager integrated with the company’s Percepxion cloud management platform, targeting AI data centers and other mission-critical environments where remote access and recovery workflows are a day-to-day operational requirement.
The SLC 9000 is designed to provide secure remote access, autonomous provisioning, cloud-native fleet management, and integrated cellular failover. For operators, that feature mix is aimed at the unglamorous but expensive part of infrastructure operations: recovering from misconfigurations, failed upgrades, and network events without rolling a person onsite.
On the hardware side, Lantronix is offering SLC 9000 configurations with 16, 32, or 48 serial ports, with port options listed as RJ45 or USB. The platform can also be configured with up to 32 ports of integrated Ethernet Layer 2 switching. For provisioning and onboarding, Lantronix says autonomous site deployment can auto-configure devices and enroll serial ports over DHCP or 4G/5G.
For fleet operations, the Percepxion platform is positioned as the control plane for centralized monitoring, tamper-evident audit logs, and at-scale lifecycle tasks including firmware management, configuration backup, and policy enforcement. Lantronix also calls out an API-first architecture using an OpenAPI 3.0.1-compliant REST interface, with integrations listed for NetBox, Ansible, Terraform, ServiceNow, and custom CMDBs.
OOB console infrastructure isn’t new, but it’s becoming harder to treat as optional as rack counts climb and sites get more distributed. When the network is degraded, or when the change that broke the network is the change you just pushed, having an independent management path with logging and standardized automation hooks can be the difference between a short incident and an all-hands outage.
Lantronix is positioning the SLC 9000 as a direct migration path for existing SLC 8000 customers, adding autonomous provisioning and Percepxion-based cloud management. Percepxion cloud management is offered via a SaaS subscription.
“The SLC 9000 builds on two decades of secure remote infrastructure management to address the growing scale, complexity and security requirements of modern enterprise infrastructure,” said Mathi Gurusamy, Chief Strategy Officer at Lantronix.
Source: Lantronix
