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Preface About the ASMI G4 Module The ASMI module (ASMI G4) provides remote server management capabilities: you can use the ASMIadd-on card to manage and monitor components in your servers. The ASMI G4 offers a comprehensivehardware solution for server management. Limited Warranty The buyer agrees th...

Chapter 1. The Quick Start Guide About the Raritan ASMI G4 Remote Management Card Figure 1-1. Front View of the ASMI G4 Module The ASMI G4 add-on card provides remote server management capabilities. You can use the ASMI G4add-on card to manage and monitor components in your servers through the WAN/L...

Chapter 1. The Quick Start Guide Table 1-1. Initial Network Configuration Parameter Value IP auto configuration DHCP IP address - Netmask - Gateway - Warning If the DHCP connection fails on boot up, the ASMI module will not have an IPaddress and will not function on the network. If this initial conf...

Chapter 2. Introduction General Information The ASMI module is an integrated solution for your server system. Based on an embedded operating system, the ASMI G4 add-on card provides both exceptional stabilityand permanent availability even when your server is down or powered off. As a system adminis...

Chapter 2. Introduction • Sophisticated mouse tracking and synchronization • Local Mouse suppression (only when using SUNs Java Virtual Machine) • Works independently from the remote host OS. You can access the remote host even in its pre-bootphases like POST and BIOS setup ASMI add-on Card System C...

Chapter 2. Introduction Category Probability CPU fan failure 8% RAM failure 4% Using the ASMI module, administrators can determine which kind of serious hardware failure hasoccurred (see Table 2-2 ). Table 2-2. Host system failures and how they are detected Type of failure Detected by Hard disk fail...

Chapter 3. ASMI Installation Guide About the ASMI Add-On Card The ASMI add-on card redirects local keyboard, mouse and video data to a remote administrationconsole. All data is transmitted using the TCP/IP protocol family. The ASMI add-on card is especiallyuseful in a multi-administrator environment...

Chapter 3. ASMI Installation Guide Connecting the Ethernet The ASMI add-on card has a dedicated RJ45 Ethernet connector - this has to be provided by the nativesystem. The connector may be used either as a 100 Mbps 100Base-TX connection or as a 10 Mbps10BASE-T connection. The adapter can sense the co...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration Initial Configuration The ASMI module’s communication interfaces are all based on TCP/IP. It comes pre-configured with theIP configuration listed in Table 4-1 . Additionally you can do some simple configuration using the serial interface. Table 4-1. Initial ne...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration Using the Psetup Tool via Graphical User Interface After invoking psetup a window opens as shown in Figure 4-1 (Windows Version) and Figure 4-2 (Linux Version). Figure 4-1. Psetup Tool (Windows Version) Figure 4-2. Psetup Tool (Linux Version) On startup, the p...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration After selecting a device, the "Device Type" should show "Raritan ASMI G4". You may now query thecurrent network settings of that device using "Query Device". In order to change the network settings or to assign a new super-user password...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration Changing the network settings test@teststation:~# /home/test/psetup --mac 00:0D:5D:00:65:78 --ipacp none --ip 192.168.5.55 --gateway 192.168.5.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --login super --pw pass Device configured successfully. MAC Address Detection Using the Pse...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration New super-user password Enter the new password for the super-user. New password (confirm) Re-type the new password for the super-user. Press the "OK" button to accept the changes and close the window. If you wish to abandon the changes,press the "C...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration Mouse and Keyboard Configuration Three Blind Mice, See How They Run... The proper configuration of a remote mouse is somewhat difficult to understand unless you know someunderlying concepts. Basically mice transmit their movement using two methods: either abso...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration Auto Mouse Speed and Mouse Synchronization The automatic mouse speed mode performs the speed detection during mouse synchronization.Whenever the mouse does not behave correctly, there are two ways for re-synchronizing local andremote mouse: Fast Sync The fast ...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration While the ASMI module works with accelerated mice and is able to synchronize the local with theremote mouse pointer, there are some limitations which may prevent this synchronization from workingproperly: Special Mouse Driver There are mouse drivers which infl...

Chapter 4. ASMI G4 Module Configuration SUN Solaris Adjust the mouse settings either via "xset m 1" or use the CDE Control Panel to set the mouse to"1:1, no acceleration". As an alternative you may also use the Single Mouse Mode. MAC OS X We recommend using the Single Mouse Mode. Lin...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Prerequisites The ASMI module features an embedded operating system and applications offering a variety ofstandardized interfaces. This chapter will describe these interfaces and the way to use them in a moredetailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP p...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection, you need a browser thatsupports the HTTPS protocol. Strong security is only assured by using a key length of 128 Bit. Some oldbrowsers do not offer a strong 128 Bit encryption algorithm. For...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Figure 5-2. Login screen Note: Your web browser has to accept cookies or else login is not possible. The ASMI module has a built-in super-user that has all the permissions to administrate your ASMImodule. See the following table for the default settings. Table 5-1. Defau...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Figure 5-3. Main Page Table 5-2. Front End Buttons Return to the main page of the ASMI module. Open the ASMI module Remote Console. Exit from the ASMI module front end. Logging out of the ASMI module This link logs out the current user and presents a new login screen. Pl...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Note: If there is no activity for half an hour, the ASMI module will log you out from the Web sessionautomatically. A click on one of the links will bring you back to the login screen. If there is a KVM session active, the Web session will not expire. The Remote Console ...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage very unlikely to be able to establish a connection. This is because today’s web proxies are not capable ofrelaying this KVM protocol. In case of problems, please consult your network administrator in order to provide a working networkenvironment. Main Window Starting the...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Remote Console Options To open the Options menu click on the button "Options". Figure 5-9. Remote Console Options Menu A description of the options follows. Monitor Only Toggles the Monitor Only filter on or off. If the filter is switched on no remote console int...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage Figure 5-20. Remote Console Options: Lossy Compression • Color Depth: set the desired color depth. You may select between 8 or 16 bit for compression level 0or between 1 and 8 bit for compression levels 1 to 9. The higher the color depth, the more videoinformation has to...

Chapter 5. ASMI Module Usage the Section called Remote Console Control Bar . Optimizing the Video Picture The ASMI module detects the video mode with 8 bits (256 colors) automatically. To improve the picturequality you may select 16 bit (True Color) from the Options Menu of the Remote Console, sub m...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Remote Control KVM Console Figure 6-1. KVM Console Remote Console Preview You can open the KVM console by clicking either on the menu entry on the left or on the consolepicture on the right. If you need to refresh the picture click on the "Refresh" button. 36

Chapter 6. Menu Options Remote Power Figure 6-2. Remote Control via IPMI On this screen you will find buttons which allow you to power cycle or reset the remote server. This doesnot affect the ASMI module! In order to control the ASMI module please consult the section under"Device Settings"....

Chapter 6. Menu Options Virtual Media Floppy Disk Figure 6-3. Virtual Floppy Area Dual Floppies As you can tell from the previous screen, you can actually redirect two virtual floppies using the pop-up. 38

Chapter 6. Menu Options Figure 6-4. Two Virtual Floppies Upload a Floppy Image With two small working steps a (floppy) image can be uploaded. 1. Specify the path of the images. You can pecify up to two images. You can do that either manually or by using the file selection dialog of your web browser....

Chapter 6. Menu Options Drive Redirection Options As shown in Figure 6-6 the following options may be enabled: Disable Drive Redirection If enabled the Drive Redirection is switched off. Force read-only connections If enabled the Write Support for the Drive Redirection is switched off. It is not pos...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Exit/Hide When the "Exit" button is pressed, the Drive Redirection software is closed. If a Drive Redirectionconnection is active, the connection will be properly closed before the application terminates. Using the "Hide to Tray" button the application is hidd...

Chapter 6. Menu Options MS Windows Create the image file using your favorite CD imaging tool to copy the whole contents of the disc into onesingle ISO image file on your harddisk. For example with "Nero" you choose "Copy and Backup". Then, navigate to the "Copy Disc" section....

Chapter 6. Menu Options Chassis Control Figure 6-14. Chassis Control Using Chassis Control you can: • Obtain information about the selected chassis • Switch the remote power on and off (power cycle) • Locate the remote host chassis 48

Chapter 6. Menu Options Monitor Sensors Figure 6-15. Monitoring Remote Sensors Screen 1 On this screen you can see some of the remote hosts sensors and their values or state. 49

Chapter 6. Menu Options System Event Log Figure 6-17. System Event Log Screen 1 You can browse the System Event Logs here. Note: these logs are for IPMI events. These are different tothe ASMI module’s own system logs. 51

Chapter 6. Menu Options Figure 6-18. System Event Log Screen 2 User Management The ASMI module comes with a pre-configured user account for the administrator also referred as thesuper-user. The super-user has the default login name "super" and a fixed set of permissions. This userhas all pos...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Note: Even acting as the super-user you cannot delete any of the pre-defined groups. You maycreate and delete other groups as you wish. Change Password Figure 6-19. Set password Change your password by entering the new password in the upper entry field. Retype the password in...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Users And Groups Figure 6-20. Set User List of Available Options A full list of available options follows. This list can only be seen by the super-user. Existing users Select an existing user for modification. Once a user has been selected, click the "Lookup" button t...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Permissions Figure 6-21. Set Permissions Only one permission set per user is allowed. Either the user inherits permissions from his/her group or ifthe user does not belong to a group, the permissions can be set individually for this user. This page allows you to set these per...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Each entry allows or denies the usage of a certain functionality. The fields labelled "RC Settings" pertainto the settings of the Remote Console. KVM Settings User Console The following settings are user specific. That means the super-user can customize these settings...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Transmission Encoding The Transmission Encoding setting allows changing the image-encoding algorithm that is used totransmit the video data to the Remote Console window. It is possible to optimize the speed of the remotescreen depending on the number of users working at the s...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Figure 6-23. User Console Settings (Part 2) Remote Console Type Specifies which Remote Console Viewer to use. Default Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Uses the default JVM of your web browser. This may be the Microsoft JVM for the InternetExplorer or the Sun JVM if it is configured...

Chapter 6. Menu Options However, in order to make the installation possible you still have to answer the required dialogs with"yes". The download volume is around 11 Mbytes. The advantage of downloading Sun’s JVM is theusage of a stable and identical JVM across different platforms. The Remot...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Key Release Timeout This is an important option if you are accessing the ASMI module over a slow or congested network. Insuch a situation you transmit a network packet containing the key PRESS to the ASMI module. Whenyou release the key, then the ASMI module will receive a co...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Basic Network Settings IP auto configuration With this option you can define whether the ASMI module should fetch its network settings from aDHCP or BOOTP server. For DHCP select "dhcp" and for BOOTP select "bootp" accordingly. Ifyou choose "none" then...

Chapter 6. Menu Options SSH port Port number at which the ASMI module’s SSH (Secure Shell) server is listening. If left empty thedefault value (port 22) will be used. Bandwidth Limit The maximum network traffic generated through the ASMI module Ethernet device. Value in Kbit/s. Enable Telnet This en...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Dynamic DNS Figure 6-26. Dynamic DNS A freely available Dynamic DNS service ( dyndns.org ) can be used in the following scenario (see Figure 6-27 ): 66

Chapter 6. Menu Options Security Figure 6-28. Device Security KVM Encryption If this option is enabled, access to the web front-end is only possible using a HTTPS connection.The ASMI module will not listen on the HTTP port for incoming connections. In case you want to create your own SSL certificate...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Certificate Figure 6-29. Certificate Settings The ASMI module uses the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol for any encrypted network trafficbetween itself and a connected client. During the connection establishment the ASMI module has toexpose its identity to a client using a ...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Date And Time Figure 6-31. Date and Time This link refers to a page where the internal realtime clock of the ASMI module can be set up (see Figure 6-31 ). You have the possibility to adjust the clock manually or to use an NTP time server. Without a time server your time setti...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Authentication Settings Figure 6-32. LDAP and other Authentication Settings On this screen you can specify where the ASMI module will look in order to authenticate the users. Youcan either use "Local Authentication", this means you need to have created the user accoun...

Chapter 6. Menu Options on the ASMI module before this user can login via LDAP. Also, all privilege configurations have to bedone within the ASMI user management (see the Section called User Management ). In order to configure the LDAP access, you can set the following options: • User LDAP Server: H...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Event Log Figure 6-33. Event Log Screen Part 1 ASMI internal events (like a login failure or a firmware update) are logged to a selection of loggingdestinations (see Figure 6-33 and Figure 6-34 ). Each of those events belong to an event group which can be activated separately...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Figure 6-34. Event Log Screen Part 2 The common way to log events is to use the internal log list of the ASMI module. To show the log listclick on the item "Event Log" from the section "Maintenance". In the Event Log Settings you can choosehow many log entries...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Warning If the reset button on the HTML frontend is used to restart the ASMImodule, all logging information is saved permanently and is availableafter the ASMI module has been started. If the ASMI module losespower or a hard reset is performed all logging data will be lost. I...

Chapter 6. Menu Options SNMP Figure 6-35. SNMP settings The following information is available via SNMP: • Serial number • Firmware version • MAC address / IP address / Netmask / Gateway of LAN interface • Server’s power state • Server’s POST code The following actions can be initiated via SNMP: • R...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Maintenance Device Information Figure 6-36. Device Information This section contains a summary of various information about this ASMI module and its currentfirmware and allows you to reset the card. You may have a look at Figure 6-36 for an example. The data file for support ...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Update Firmware Figure 6-39. Update Firmware The ASMI module is a complete standalone computer. The software it runs is called the firmware. Thefirmware of the ASMI module can be updated remotely in order to install new functionality, bug fixes orspecial features. New release...

Chapter 6. Menu Options Unit Reset Figure 6-40. Unit Reset This section allows you to reset specific parts of the device. This involves the both keyboard and mouse,the video engine and the ASMI module itself. Resetting the card itself is mainly needed to activate anewly updated firmware. It will clo...

Appendix A. Frequently Asked Questions 1. The mouse does not react correctly in the applet screen. The mouse is not in sync with themouse of the host. Navigate your mouse pointer into the upper left corner of the applet screen and move it slightly forth andback. Thus the mouse will be resynchronized...

Appendix C. Configuring the RADIUS server This appendix describes the necessary steps to configure a RADIUS server in order to be able to useremote authentication on the ASMI G4 module. This is shown for a Windows 2003 Server StandardEdition system with Active Directory enabled. Prerequisites 1. Ple...

Appendix C. Configuring the RADIUS server Type the share secret that will be used between this RADIUS server and ASMI module. (Note: pleasememorize this secret, as the same secret will be requested for the configuration of RADIUS function onASMI module). Select Finish after this is done. A new RADIU...

Appendix D. Key Codes Table D-1 shows the key codes used to define the key strokes or hotkeys for several functions. Please note that these key codes do not necessarily represent the key characters that are used on internationalkeyboards. A key on a standard 104 key PC keyboard with a US English lan...

Appendix E. Specifications Sizes and Weight Table E-1. ASMI G4 Specification Attribute Value Height 13mm Width 173.4mm Depth 64.4mm Weight 110g (w/o replicator cable) Power Consumption up to 1A Environment Temperature Table E-2. Temperature Attribute Value Operating Temperature Range 0 degree C to 5...

Appendix F. Raritan Corp. Warranty Information Limited Warranty Raritan Corp. manufactures its hardware products from parts and components that are new orequivalent to new in accordance with industry-standard practices. Raritan warrants that the hardwareproducts including the firmware will be free f...

Appendix H. The OpenLDAP Public License Version 2.8, 17 August 2003 Redistribution and use of this software and associated documentation ("Software"), with or withoutmodification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions in source form must retain copy...