I recently have purchased 2 USB IP hubs to be located in our 2 data centres so that we can plug our USB certificate authentication devices & share them from there. This enables us a much more improved DR recovery option & improved certificate security.
Whilst I have managed to set this up & get the devices working in our Development environment, I am now faced with a process issue that I am unsure as how to get around.
I have 3 users in the same department who all use the same certificates, previously they would physically unplug the certificates from one computer & plug them in at another. The problem I now have, is disconnecting users once they have finished using the keys.
Ideally what I would like to do is when a user attempts to connect to a device, the current user that is connected to the USB device group is PROMPTED saying that someone else wishes to connect & do they wish to disconnect. Its either that or have a timeout on the group.
Does anyone know if this is possible or do they have a similar situation to this & they have found a solution?
The Multi-Host Connections feature allows multiple hosts to establish concurrent connections with the AnywhereUSB unit.
When the first user is finished using the key he/she should disconnect the group and the second user should establish the connection with the group and later the third user.
Multiple host PCs can “take turns” connecting to the AnywhereUSB, however they cannot be connected to the AnywhereUSB simultaneously.
The AnywhereUSB/14 (P/N AW-USB-14) and the AnywhereUSB/5M (P/N AW-USB-5M-W) are currently the only models that offers the Multi-Host Connections (MHC) feature, which allows multiple host PCs to connect to the AnywhereUSB/14 or AnywhereUSB/5M at the same time. With those models in particular, each host PC may be connected to one or more USB ports. Note, however, that multiple host PCs cannot “share” any of the same USB ports / USB devices.
You can create groups and connect to the different host machines.
If 10 pc’s are connected to 10 different ports then, they can access their 10 different AUSB ports at the same time.
For example, let’s say we have PC 1 to PC 10. PC1 connects to AUSB port 1, PC 2 connects to AUSB port2, PC3 connects to AUSB port3 and so on…
All the PCs can access their AUSB ports at the same time. But PC1 and PC2 cannot connect to AUSB port 1 at the same time
In general only one computer can connect to one USB port and/or multiple USB ports but, multiple computers cannot share a single USB port in AnywhereUSB.
In your case, you can connect Multiple host to AUSB by creating a groups, say you have created group 1 for primary server and connected to group1 and other ports are assigned to other groups. once the Primary server goes down the secondary server can be able to connect to AUSB like before but cannot connect to group1 as it is still connected to primary server, you need to disconnect first and then can be able to access the group.