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Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Features ................................................................................................................................ 2 1.2 Package...
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1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing the LINDY CPU IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE. This device allows operators to monitor and access their computers from remote locations. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE connects to the internet, intranet, LAN or WAN using standard CAT5 or higher cable, then uses a KVM cable ...
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1.1 Features Remote access of KVM switches or servers via LAN, WAN, or the internet; control your installation from almost anywhere in the world KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) access over IP and analogue telephone line (requires modem) BIOS level access SSL encryption No impact on server or ...
Page 7 - Technical Specifications; System Requirements; Item
1.3 Technical Specifications Item Description PC Port Connectors PS/2 Keyboard Mini Din 6 Pin Female PS/2 Mouse Mini Din 6 Pin Female VGA HDDB 15 Pin Female USB Type B Female Console Port Connector (All Female Types) Local Console: PS/2 Keyboard Mini Din 6 pin PS/2 Mouse Mini Din 6 pin VGA HDDB 15pi...
Page 8 - Hardware Installation; Operation Overview
2. Hardware Installation 2.1 Operation Overview The pictures below show the connection options of the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE redirects local keyboard, mouse, and video signals to a remote administration console. All data is transmitted using the TCP/IP protocol. Administrat...
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2.2.3 Network Connection The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE provides an RJ-45 port for an Ethernet connection. The port can be used with a 100Mbps, 100Base-TX connection or a 10Mbps, 10Base-T connection. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE will sense the connection speed and automatically adjust to the appropriate ope...
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3.3 IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE Setup Tool 3.3.1 MAC Address Detection Connect the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE to your computer either via a local network, or via USB. If you use a USB connection Windows will detect the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE as a ‘Removable Disk ’ and an appropriate drive letter will be assigne...
Page 14 - Keyboard, Mouse and Video configuration; IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE Keyboard Settings; Intelligent Sync
3.4 Keyboard, Mouse and Video configuration Between the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE and the host, there are two interfaces available for transmitting keyboard and mouse data: USB and PS/2. The correct operation of the remote mouse depends on several settings which will be discussed in the following subsec...
Page 16 - in the Control Panel.; SUN Solaris; Adjust the mouse settings either via; xset m 1; or use the CDE Control Panel to set the mouse to; MAC OS X; We recommend using the Single Mouse Mode.
3.4.5 Recommended Mouse Settings For the different operating systems we can give the following advice... MS Windows 2000/2003 (Professional and Server), XP In general, we recommend the use of a USB mouse. Choose USB without Mouse Sync. For a PS/2 mouse choose Auto Mouse Speed. For XP disable the opt...
Page 17 - Telnet; We recommend you install the latest version of Sun’s; Microsoft
4. Usage 4.1 Prerequisites The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE features an embedded operating system offering a variety of standardized interfaces. This section will describe these interfaces, and the way to use them in a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP protocol family. The ...
Page 18 - Login to the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE
4.2 Logging In 4.2.1 Login to the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE Launch your web browser. Direct it to the address of your IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE which you configured during the installation process. The address used might be a plain IP address or a host and domain name if you have given your IP ACCESS SWITCH...
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4.3 Navigation Once logged into the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE successfully, the main page appears. This page consists of three parts; each of them contains specific information. The buttons in the upper area allow you to navigate within the front end. The lower left area contains a navigation bar and al...
Page 21 - Sends the ‘Control Alt Delete’ key combination to the remote system; Auto Adjust button; When in single mouse mode use the hotkey combination
Note: Your local keyboard changes its keyboard layout according to the remote host system. If you use a German administration system and your host system uses a US English keyboard layout for instance, some special keys on the German keyboard will not work as expected. Instead, the keys will result ...
Page 22 - Fast Sync; Video Settings; Video Settings through the HTML-Frontend:
Options Opens the Options menu. A short description of the each of the options follows: Monitor Only Toggles the ‘Monitor Only’ filter on or off. If the filter is switched on, no remote console interaction is possible but monitoring is. Exclusive Access If a user has the appropriate permission, he c...
Page 24 - Soft Keyboard; Show; OK; to perform the
Soft Keyboard Opens up the sub-menu for the Soft-Keyboard: Show Pops up the Soft-Keyboard. The Soft-Keyboard is necessary in case your host system runs a completely different language and country mapping than your administration machine. Mapping Used for choosing the language and country mapping of ...
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5. Menu Options 5.1 Remote Control 5.1.1 KVM Console To open the KVM console, click either the menu entry on the left or on the console picture on the right. To refresh the picture, click on the Refresh button. For the Remote Power settings see Section 2.2.5 on page 6. 22
Page 29 - Create a Floppy Image; UNIX and UNIX-like OS; . This is one of the original UNIX utilities and is included; dd; reads the entire disc from the device
5.2 Virtual Media 5.2.1 Floppy Disk Follow the steps below to upload a virtual floppy image to the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE and create a virtual floppy drive on the host system Create a Floppy Image First, on your client PC you must create an image of your floppy disk which can be uploaded to the IP AC...
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Windows Windows users should use the tool RawWrite for Windows which is included on the supplied CD. Launch RawWrite , you will see the window opposite: Insert your floppy disk into your floppy drive. Click the Read tab and then click on Select a name and destination for the floppy image file and cl...
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7. You will see the dialog below detailing the active image: 8. Click Reactivate . Access the console window and you will see that another CD drive has been installed on the host computer. This is the virtual drive you have just set up. You can access the uploaded CD image as though it were a regula...
Page 34 - . After installation launch the; Search for new devices; icon - The CPU IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE will; Unconfigured device; and it’s MAC address will be displayed in the left; Device Configuration Wizard
5.2.3 Drive Redirection The Drive Redirection feature allows the host system to access the CD-Rom drives, hard drives, floppy drives etc. on your client PC. To use this feature you need the Drive Redirection Tool which is part of the KVM Vision Viewer application included on the supplied CD. 1. To s...
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3. Follow the on-screen instructions. You will be asked to input your user name (default is super ) and password (default is pass) . 4. Continue with the Wizard until the device is correctly configured. Once the configuration is complete, select Redirect Local Drive from the Device menu: 31
Page 37 - Apply; to submit your changes.
5.3 User Management 5.3.1 Change Password To change your password, enter the new password in the upper entry field. Retype the password in the lower field. Click Apply to submit your changes. 33
Page 40 - . The download size is around 11MB. The advantage of downloading
are very time consuming, they should not be used when several users are accessing the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE simultaneously. The standard colour depth is 16 bit (65536 colours). The other colour depths are intended for slower network connections in order to allow a faster transmission of data. Theref...
Page 41 - Miscellaneous Remote Console Settings; Start in Monitor Mode; Mouse hotkey; in Windows and DOS, which is always caught, or; keycode
Miscellaneous Remote Console Settings Start in Monitor Mode Sets the initial value for the monitor mode. By default the monitor mode is off. In case you switch it on, the Remote Console window will be started in a read only mode. Start in Exclusive Access Mode Enables the exclusive access mode immed...
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Mouse Speed Auto mouse speed Use this option if the mouse settings on the host use an additional acceleration setting. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE tries to detect the acceleration and speed of the mouse during the mouse sync process. Fixed mouse speed Use a direct translation of mouse movements be...
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Enable Dynamic DNS Enables the Dynamic DNS service. This requires a configured DNS server IP address. Dynamic DNS server This is the server name where the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE registers itself in regular intervals. At the time of writing, this is a fixed setting since only dyndns.org is currently s...
Page 48 - no encryption will be used. If set to; Try; , the applet tries to make an; Force; the applet tries to make an encrypted connection. An
5.5.3 Security Force HTTPS If this option is enabled, access to the web front-end is only possible using an HTTPS connection. The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE will not listen on the HTTP port for incoming connections. If you want to create your own SSL certificate that is used to identify the IP ACCESS SWI...
Page 49 - Create; button to initiate the Certificate Signing Request; Download CSR; button; Upload
5.5.4 Certificate The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE uses the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol for any encrypted network traffic between itself and a connected client. During the connection establishment the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE has to expose its identity to a client using a cryptographic certificate. Thi...
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5.5.5 Serial Port The IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE Serial Settings allow you to specify what device is connected to the serial port and how to use it. Configuration or console login Do not use the serial port for any special function; use it only for the initial configuration Modem The IP ACCESS SWITCH LIT...
Page 53 - Passthrough access to serial port via Telnet
Modem Init String The initialization string used by the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE to initialize the modem. The default value will work with all modern standard modems directly connected to a telephone line. In case you have a special modem or the modem is connected to a local telephone switch that req...
Page 54 - p a static offset to get your local time.
5.5.6 Date And Time Here you can set the internal real-time clock of the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE. You can adjust the clock manually or use an NTP timeserver. Without a timeserver your time setting will be lost if the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE is powered down for more than a few minutes. To avoid this, you...
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5.5.7 Event Log Important events like a login failure or a firmware update are logged to a selection of logging destinations. Each of those events belongs to an event group, which can be activated separately. In the Event Log Settings you can choose how many log entries are shown on each page. Furth...
Page 57 - option; see the section called Remote Console Control Bar on page 17.; for an active user
5.6 Maintenance 5.6.1 Device Information This section contains a summary with various information about the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE and its current firmware. It also allows you to reset the unit. View the data file for support Allows you to download the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE data file with specific su...
Page 59 - need to select the file on your local system using the; Browse; button on the Upload; Update; button will replace the old version with the new one.
A new firmware update is a binary file which can be sent to you by email or which you can download from our website www.lindy.com . Updating the firmware is a three-stage process: 1. The new firmware file is uploaded to the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE. In order to do this you need to select the file on yo...
Page 60 - Only the super user is allowed to reset the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE.
5.6.4 Unit Reset This section allows you to reset specific parts of the device. This involves the keyboard and mouse, the video engine and the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE itself. Resetting the unit itself is mainly needed to activate a newly updated firmware. It will close all current connections to the a...
Page 62 - ’ enabled in the mouse settings of the operating system. This
58 Q 009: Using MacOS X an HTTPS connection fails A 009: You have to install the IP ACCESS SWITCH LITE certificate using our certificate installer, available on the utility CD. Please refer to the instructions on this CD for further information on how to install the certificate. Q 010: Can’t upload ...
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Page 67 - Radio Frequency Energy, Certifications; CE Conformity; Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna
63 10. Radio Frequency Energy, Certifications CE Conformity This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the relevant European Community Directive 93/68/EEC for Electromagnetic Compatibility for Information Technology Equipment. FCC Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comp...
