Page 2 - CONTENTS
CONTENTS 1 THE QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE 1 2 INTRODUCTION 4 2.1 When the sever is up and running 4 2.2 When the server is dead 4 2.3 Features 5 2.4 Package contents 5 2.5 Technical specifications 6 2.6 System requirement 6 2.7 Cable diagrams 7 2.8 LED Indicators 7 3 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 8 3.1 Operat...
Page 4 - The quick installation guide; Installation; access DKVM-IP1 switch; Video modes; Host
1 1. The quick installation guide Installation DKVM-IP1 switch redirects local keyboard, mouse and video data to a remote administration console. All data is transmitted via IP. DKVM-IP1 switch can be used in a multi administrator and multi server environment as well. Besides, DKVM-IP1 switch is a K...
Page 6 - Remote Console; Figure 1-2: Top part of the Remote Console; Auto Adjust button
3 Changing these settings to user specific values is strongly recommended and can be done on the User Management page (see the Section called Users and Groups in Chapter 6 ). Remote Console The Remote Console is the redirected screen, keyboard and mouse of the remote host system to which DKVM-IP1 sw...
Page 11 - Hardware installation; Operation Overview; Connect the power supply on DKVM-IP1 switch
8 3. Hardware installation 3.1 Operation Overview Figure 3-1 shows the connections of DKVM-IP1 switch to its host, to peripheral devices, to the power source and to the local area network. Figure 3-1.a: DKVM-IP1 switch usage scenario Figure 3-1.b: DKVM-IP1 switch usage scenario DKVM-IP1 switch redir...
Page 13 - Step 8; adapter’s connector.
10 Step 8 (Option) Connect the type A connector of USB A-B cable to the USB port of the host system, while using remote mass storage control. USB type A plug of USB A-B cable to the computer. Step 8 Connect Ethernet and/or modem or both communication ports simultaneously, depending on how you want t...
Page 15 - Configuration; Initial Configuration; Parameter Value; Table 4-1. Initial network configuration; Warning; MAC Address Detection
12 4. Configuration 4.1 Initial Configuration The DKVM-IP1 switch's communication interfaces are all based on TCP/IP. It comes pre-configured with the IP configuration listed in Table 4-1 . Parameter Value IP auto configuration DHCP IP-Address - Net-mask 255.255.255.0 Default-Gateway none Table 4-1....
Page 17 - IP auto configuration
14 When configuring with a serial terminal, reset the DKVM-IP1 switch and immediately press the “ ESC ” key. You will see some device information, and a “ => ” prompt. Enter “config”, press “ Enter ” key and wait for a few seconds for the configuration questions to appear. Parameter Value Bits/se...
Page 18 - Fast Sync; At first start, if the local mouse pointer is not synchronized with
15 4.1.3.2 Remote Mouse Settings A common problem with KVM devices is the synchronization between the local and remote mouse cursors. The DKVM-IP1 switch addresses this situation with an intelligent synchronization algorithm. There are two mouse modes available on the DKVM-IP1 switch. Auto mouse spe...
Page 20 - Usage; The following interfaces are supported:; Telnet; and Windows XP
17 5. Usage 5.1 Prerequisites The DKVM-IP1 switch features an embedded operating system and applications offering a variety of standardized interfaces. This chapter will describe both these interfaces, and the way to use them in a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP pr...
Page 21 - Newer web browsers do support strong encryption on default.; Login into the DKVM-IP1 switch and logout; When using a secure connection, type in:
18 Figure 5-1. The Internet Explorer displaying the encryption key length Newer web browsers do support strong encryption on default. 5.2 Login into the DKVM-IP1 switch and logout 5.2.1 Login into the DKVM-IP1 switch Launch your web browser. Direct it to the address of your DKVM-IP1 switch, which yo...
Page 22 - Return to the main page of the DKVM-IP1
19 Warning The user “ super ” is not allowed to login via the serial interface of the DKVM-IP1 switch. Warning Please make sure to change the super user password immediately after you have installed and accessed your DKVM-IP1 switch for the first time. Not changing the pass phrase for the super user...
Page 23 - Exit from the DKVM-IP1 switch front end.
20 Exit from the DKVM-IP1 switch front end. Table 5-2. Buttons from the front end Warning If there is no activity for half an hour, the DKVM-IP1 switch will log you out, automatically. A click on one of the links will bring you back to the login screen. 5.2.2 Logout from the DKVM-IP1 switch This lin...
Page 24 - Figure 5-5. Remote Console Control Bar
21 connection. This is because today's web proxies are not capable of relaying the RFB protocol. In case of problems, please consult your network administrator in order to provide an appropriate network environment. 5.4 Main Window Starting the Remote Console opens an additional window. It displays ...
Page 25 - Figure 5-6. Remote Console Options Menu; • Exclusive Access
22 Auto Adjust button If the video display is of bad quality or distorted in some way, press this button and wait a few seconds while the DKVM-IP1 switch tries to adjust itself for the best possible video quality. Sync mouse Activates the mouse synchronization process. Choose this option in order to...
Page 26 - Figure 5-7. Remote Console Exclusive Mode; • Scaling
23 If a user has the appropriate permission, he can force the Remote Consoles of all other users to close. No one can open the Remote Console at the same time again until this user disables the exclusive access, or logs off. A change in the access mode is also visible in the status line (see Figure ...
Page 27 - • Video Settings; Video Settings through the HTML-Frontend
24 opens the Remote Console. The number of available shapes depends on the Java Virtual Machine; a version of 1.2 or higher offers the full list. Figure 5-9. Remote Console Options Menu:Cursor • Video Settings Opens a panel for changing the DKVM-IP1 switch video settings. DKVM-IP1 switch features tw...
Page 29 - Figure 5-14. Remote Console Confirmation Dialog; Encoding
26 Figure 5-13. Soft Keyboard Mapping • Local Keyboard Used to change the language mapping of your browser machine running the Remote Console Applet. Normally, the applet determines the correct value automatically. However, depending on your particular JVM and your browser settings this is not alway...
Page 30 - Status line
27 Figure 5-15. Encoding Allows to adjust both compression rate and the colour depth individually. Depending on the selected compression rate the data stream between the DKVM-IP1 switch and the Remote Console will be compressed in order to save bandwidth. Since high compression rates are very time c...
Page 31 - Figure 5-17. Status line transfer rate
28 Furthermore, both the incoming (“In:”) and the outgoing (“Out:”) network traffic are visible (in kb/s). If compressed encoding is enabled, a value in brackets displays the compressed transfer rate. Figure 5-17. Status line transfer rate For more information about Exclusive Access settings, see th...
Page 32 - Menu Options; Console
29 6. Menu Options 6.1 Remote 6.1.1 KVM Console Figure 6-1. KVM Console To open the KVM console, either clicks on the menu entry on the left, or on the console picture on the right. To refresh the picture, click on the button “Refresh”. 6.1.2 Telnet Console Figure 6-2. Telnet Console The DKVM-IP1 sw...
Page 33 - help; Displays the list of possible commands; cls; Clears the screen; quit; Exits the current session and disconnects from the client; version; Displays the release information; terminal
30 Replace the IP address by the one that is actually assigned to the DKVM-IP1 switch. This will prompt for username and password in order to log into the device. The credentials that need to be entered for authentication are identical to those of the web interface. That means, the user management o...
Page 34 - Upload a Floppy Image; Use Image on Windows Share; ROM
31 6.2 Virtual Media 6.2.1 Mapping Figure 6-3. Virtual Floppy Area Upload a Floppy Image Within two small steps working on the basis of a certain (floppy) image can be achieved. • First, the path of the image has to be specified. You can do that either by hand, or by using the file selection dialog ...
Page 35 - The name of the share to be used.; Path to image; The path of the image file on the share.
32 Figure 6-6. Selecting CD ROM Figure 6-7. Select Windows Share The following information has to be given to mount the image properly: Share host The server name, or its IP address. Share name The name of the share to be used. Path to image The path of the image file on the share. User (optional) I...
Page 36 - Select “Sharing” to open the configuration dialog.; Figure 6-9. Share configuration dialog; Adjust the settings for the selected directory.
33 either login as a system administrator (or as “ root ” on UNIX systems), or ask your system administrator for help to complete this task. Windows 2000/XP Open the Explorer, navigate to the directory (or share), and press the right mouse button to open the context menu. Figure 6-8. Explorer contex...
Page 37 - Creating an Image; UNIX and UNIX-like OS; dd; MS Windows; Figure 6-10. RawWrite for Windows selection dialog
34 For additional options see the Section called Options for details. Creating an Image Floppy Images UNIX and UNIX-like OS To create an image file, make use of “dd”. This is one of the original UNIX utilities and is included in every UNIX-like OS (UNIX, Sun Solaris, Linux). To create a floppy image...
Page 39 - redirection
36 6.2.3 Drive redirection Figure 6-12. Selecting Drive Redirection 6.2.3.1 Driver Installation Please follow the KVM Vision Viewer Setup Wizard step by step to install the driver from the attached CD ROM.
Page 40 - Figure 5-17. KVM Vision Viewer Setup step
37 Figure 5-17. KVM Vision Viewer Setup step 5-1 5-5 5-4 5-3 5-2
Page 41 - Create a New Device; Start KVM Vision Viewer; Device”; and select; “New Device”; to create a new device; Figure 5-17. Device Configuration dialog
38 6.2.3.2 Create a New Device ¾ Start KVM Vision Viewer ¾ Click on “ Device” and select “New Device” to create a new device Figure 5-17. Create a new Device Figure 5-17. Device Configuration dialog Device Name: Enter a name to your device. Network Address: Enter an IP address the DKVM-IP1 switch us...
Page 42 - Click Ok, the new device will be added as below,; Drive Redirection Settings; Move the cursor to the new device that has been created.; Figure 5-19. Drive Redirection Setting select; Drive to redirect
39 ¾ Click Ok, the new device will be added as below, Figure 5-18. New Device 6.2.3.3 Drive Redirection Settings ¾ Move the cursor to the new device that has been created. ¾ Click on “Device” then select “Drive Redirection” and “Redirect local drive”. Figure 5-19. Drive Redirection Setting select Fi...
Page 43 - Click Ok, the new device icon will be changed as below,; from webpage. Otherwise you will be not be able to use
40 ¾ Click Ok, the new device icon will be changed as below, Figure 5-21. Drive Redirection finished 6.2.4 Options Figure 6-5. Seleting Options Figure 6-5. USB mass storage option Set this option to disable the mass storage emulation (and hide the virtual drive) if no image file is currently loaded....
Page 44 - To set this option, press the button “Apply”; Password
41 system will hang on boot due to changes in the boot order, or the boot manager (LILO, GRUB). This case was reported for some Windows versions (2000, XP), other OS might not be fully excluded. This behavior depends on the BIOS version used in that machine. To set this option, press the button “App...
Page 48 - Figure 6-17. Keyboard and Mouse Settings; Host Interface
45 Start in Exclusive Access Mode Enables the exclusive access mode immediately at Remote Console startup. This forces the Remote Consoles of all other users to close. No one can open the Remote Console at the same time again until this user disables the exclusive access or logs off. Mouse hotkey Al...
Page 51 - IP address in the usual dot notation.
48 Figure 6-19. Network Settings (Part 1) Warning The initial IP configuration is usually done directly at the host system using the special procedure described in Table 4-1. Warning Changing the network settings of the DKVM-IP1 switch might result in losing connection to it. In case you change the ...
Page 53 - DNS
50 6.5.2 Dynamic DNS Figure 6-20. Dynamic DNS A freely available Dynamic DNS service (dyndns.org) can be used in the following scenario (see Figure 6-21): Figure 6-21. Dynamic DNS Scenario The DKVM-IP1 switch is reachable via the IP address of the DSL router, which is dynamically assigned by the pro...
Page 54 - Date And Time
51 You have to perform the following steps in order to enable Dynamic DNS: • Make sure that the LAN interface of the DKVM-IP1 switch is properly configured. • Enter the Dynamic DNS Settings configuration dialog as shown in Figure 6-20. • Enable Dynamic DNS and change the settings according to your n...
Page 57 - Common name
54 Figure 6-24. SSL Certificate Upload After completing these three steps, the DKVM-IP1 switch has its own certificate that is used for identifying the card to its clients. Warning If you destroy the CSR on the DKVM-IP1 switch there is no way to get it back! In case you deleted it by mistake, you ha...
Page 58 - Confirmation of the Challenge Password; Port; Configuration or console login
55 Challenge Password Some certification authorities require a challenge password to authorize later changes on the certificate (e.g. revocation of the certificate). The minimal length of this password is 4 characters. Confirm Challenge Password Confirmation of the Challenge Password Email The email...
Page 61 - List logging enabled; NFS Logging enabled
58 Important events like a login failure or a firmware update are logged to a selection of logging destinations (see Figure 6-29). Each of those events belongs to an event group, which can be activated separately. The common way to log events is to use the internal log list of the DKVM-IP1 switch. T...
Page 65 - Updating the firmware is a three-stage process:
62 A new firmware update is a binary file which will be sent to you by email or which you can download from the supplier web site. If the firmware file is compressed (file suffix .zip) then you must unzip it before you can proceed. Under the Windows operating system you may use WinZip from http://ww...
Page 66 - Reset; Figure 6-35 Unit Reset
63 6.6.4 Unit Reset Figure 6-35 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 DKVM-IP1 itself. Resetting the card itself is mainly needed to activate a newly updated firmware. It will close all current co...
Page 68 - Certificates; FCC
65 be disabled. 8. Certificates FCC This equipment has been tested and found to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference (2) This device must accept any interference received. Including interference...
Page 70 - A.5 KVM 15 pin connector
A.4 Serial SUB-D 9 Connector 1 A.5 KVM 15 pin connector B. Key Codes Table C.1 shows the key codes used to defines keystrokes or hotkeys for several functions. Please note that these key codes do not represent necessarily key characters that are used on international keyboards. They name a key on a ...
Page 72 - Table C.1 Video mode
END PAGE DOWN UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT NUM LOCK NUMPAD0 NUMPAD1 NUMPAD2 NUMPAD3 NUMPAD4 NUMPAD5 NUMPAD6 NUMPAD7 NUMPAD8 NUMPAD9 NUMPADPLUS,NUMPAD PLUS NUMPAD/ NUMPADMUL,NUMPAD MUL NUMPADMINUS,NUMPAD MINUS NUMPADENTER WINDOWS MENU Table B.1: Key Names C. Video Modes Table B.1 lists the video modes DKVM-IP1...
Page 73 - D. Rack mount kit installation diagram