Raritan ASMI G4, User Manual

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Page 3: ...ASMI Installation Guide 7 About the ASMI Add On Card 7 Connectors 7 Connecting the ASMI Add On Card to the Host System 7 Connecting the Ethernet 7 10 Mbps Connection 8 100 Mbps Connection 8 4 ASMI G4...

Page 4: ...ty Filter 26 Scaling 26 Mouse Handling 27 Local Cursor 28 Chat Window 28 Soft Keyboard 28 Local Keyboard 30 Hotkeys 30 Encoding 31 Remote Console Status Line 33 Optimizing the Video Picture 35 Using t...

Page 5: ...pe 59 Miscellaneous Remote Console Settings 60 Mouse Hotkey 60 Remote Console Button Keys 60 Keyboard Mouse 61 Key Release Timeout 61 USB Mouse Type 62 Mouse Speed 62 Device Settings 62 Network 62 Bas...

Page 6: ...m remote access policy 94 D Key Codes 95 E Specifications 98 Sizes and Weight 98 Environment 98 Temperature 98 Humidity Range 98 F Raritan Corp Warranty Information 99 Limited Warranty 99 Customer Rem...

Page 7: ...how they are detected 6 4 1 Initial network configuration 9 4 2 Default User Settings 13 5 1 Default User Settings 20 5 2 Front End Buttons 21 5 3 Buttons displaying the access state 34 5 4 Buttons di...

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Page 10: ...g the ASMI G4 Module to the Host System Warning Please note the firmware of the ASMI G4 board delivered to you is customized for use with the specified motherboard model Do not use with other motherbo...

Page 11: ...ut ASMI devices on your local subnet and allow you to set them up Web Interface The ASMI add on card may be accessed using a standard Java enabled web browser You may use the HTTP protocol or a secure...

Page 12: ...rs This generally applies to all modern Windows Operating Systems like Windows 200 and 2003 XP etc Macintosh OS X is the same They use Absolute Mouse Mode Alternatively there is a so called Relative M...

Page 13: ...t offers convenient remote KVM access and control via LAN or Internet It captures digitizes and compresses video output and transmits it with keyboard and mouse data to and from a remote computer Remo...

Page 14: ...remote server s graphics keyboard and mouse and to send special commands to the server You can also perform periodic maintenance of the server Using the Console Redirection Service you can do the fol...

Page 15: ...tected Type of failure Detected by Hard disk failure Console screen CMOS set up information Power cable detached power supply failure Server remains in power off state after power on command has been...

Page 16: ...1 ASMI G4 Add On Module Connectors Connecting the ASMI Add On Card to the Host System Connecting the ASMI add on card to the host system is easy turn off the host locate the ASMI slot and carefully i...

Page 17: ...ely for a standard 10BASE T adapter 2 Align the RJ45 plug with the notch on the adapter s connector and insert it into the adapter s connector You should hear an audible click as the Ethernet plug lat...

Page 18: ...nitial configuration does not meet your requirements this chapter describes the initial IP configuration that is necessary to access the ASMI module for the first time Using the Psetup Tool The psetup...

Page 19: ...re 4 1 Psetup Tool Windows Version Figure 4 2 Psetup Tool Linux Version On startup the psetup tool automatically auto detects all ASMI modules in the local host and on the network subnet The MAC addre...

Page 20: ...dress Set a new IP address ipacp dhcp bootp none Set the auto configuration mode to either DHCP or BOOTP Enter none if you want to set the network access parameters manually netmask net mask Set a new...

Page 21: ...nter a user name and the proper password then press the Setup Device button Using the Linux Psetup Tool The window the MAC address of the device is displayed in the top edge of the window In order to...

Page 22: ...mmended to configure a fixed IP assignment to the MAC address of the ASMI module You can find the MAC address on the outside of the shipping box and labelled on the bottom side If this initial configu...

Page 23: ...play like the mouse acceleration which can be different on the remote system and the local system PC you are using to talk to the ASMI module Hence the ASMI module has to do a lot more conversion work...

Page 24: ...in the Remote Console Option menu entry Mouse Handling On top of that please note that the shape of the mouse pointer has a significant influence on the pointer detection We recommend to use a simple...

Page 25: ...it slightly back and forth This will resynchronize the mouse If resynchronizing the mouse fails then disable the mouse acceleration and repeat the procedure Single and Double Mouse Mode The above inf...

Page 26: ...s The ASMI module recognizes a number of common video modes When running X11 on the host system please do not use any custom modelines with special video modes If you do the ASMI module may not be abl...

Page 27: ...re Shell SSH client can also be used to access the ASMI module including a text mode console redirection as mentioned above The primary interface of the ASMI module is the HTTP interface This is cover...

Page 28: ...Figure 5 1 shows the dialog box presented by the Internet Explorer 6 0 Figure 5 1 The Internet Explorer displaying the encryption key length Modern web browsers support strong encryption by default Lo...

Page 29: ...assword pass Navigation After a successful login to the ASMI module the main page of the ASMI module appears see Figure 5 3 This page consists of three parts each containing specific information The b...

Page 30: ...age 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 Please...

Page 31: ...onsole The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that tries to establish its own TCP connection to the ASMI module The protocol that is run over this connection is neither HTTP nor HTTPS but a specia...

Page 32: ...se a German administration system and your host system uses a US English keyboard layout for instance special keys on the German keyboard will not work as expected Instead the keys will result in thei...

Page 33: ...the operating system type Other Operating Systems Drive Redirection Opens the virtual media Drive Redirection menu for the Remote Console Figure 5 6 Remote Console Applet Drive Redirection Menu This m...

Page 34: ...ey combination to the remote system see also the Section called KVM Settings in Chapter 6 for defining new button keys Single Double Mouse Mode Switches between the Single Mouse Mode where only the re...

Page 35: ...this user disables the exclusive access or logs off Note This option is only accessible if the current user privileges allow Exclusive Access A change in the access mode is also visible in the status...

Page 36: ...ing Note This menu is only available when you have selected the option Other Operating System The sub menu for mouse handling offers two options for synchronizing the local and the remote mouse pointe...

Page 37: ...rrent user and activated the next time this user 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 12...

Page 38: ...te system After the first press the button will change its color to signalize that the according key is czurrently pressed After the second press the button will revert to its usual look and confirm t...

Page 39: ...ormally the applet determines the correct value for this automatically However depending on your particular JVM and your browser settings this is not always possible A typical example is a German loca...

Page 40: ...defined level The relevant menu is KVM Settings User Console Transmission Encoding Predefined Encoding This is explained in the following chapter Compression Level you may select a value between 1 and...

Page 41: ...g compression The next two options allow you to set the compression level to a predefined level OR to set a level for lossy compression This compresses well but leads to a degradation in image quality...

Page 42: ...bit for compression levels 1 to 9 The higher the color depth the more video information has to be captured and to be transmitted Figure 5 21 Remote Console Options Color Depth Remote Console Status Li...

Page 43: ...e The next button displays the Remote Console Access settings Table 5 3 Buttons displaying the access state A single user is connected to the Remote Console of the ASMI module One or more users are co...

Page 44: ...connection with low bandwidth takes longer to transfer the video data from the ASMI module to the Remote Console on the local host Every time the remote screen has changes requires a new picture to be...

Page 45: ...VM 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 console picture on the right If you need to refresh the...

Page 46: ...2 Remote Control via IPMI On this screen you will find buttons which allow you to power cycle or reset the remote server This does not affect the ASMI module In order to control the ASMI module please...

Page 47: ...hapter 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...

Page 48: ...dialog click on the button Browse and select the desired image file Figure 6 5 Select Image File The maximum image size is limited to 1 44MB If you want use a larger image then please mount this imag...

Page 49: ...e that Drive Redirection works on a level which is far below the operating system Actually this means that neither the local nor the remote operating system is aware that the drive is currently redire...

Page 50: ...e Write Support for the Drive Redirection is switched off It is not possible to write to the redirected device Click Apply to submit your changes Software Requirements To use this feature you have to...

Page 51: ...rt This is the network port By default the ASMI module uses the remote console port 443 here You need to change this value if you have changed the remote console port in your ASMI module s network set...

Page 52: ...he Refresh button may be used to regenerate the list of drive letters especially for a USB stick Write Support Figure 6 9 Selecting write support This feature may be enabled here Write support means t...

Page 53: ...nnect button is enabled On an error the status line shows the error message The drive redirection software tries to lock the local drive before it is redirected That means that it tries to prevent the...

Page 54: ...e icon shows the application window or with a right click you may access a small menu see Figure 6 11 Figure 6 11 Tray Info Creating an Image Floppy Images UNIX and UNIX like OS To create an image fil...

Page 55: ...www fdos org ripcord rawrite CD ROM ISO 9660 Images UNIX and UNIX like OS To create an image file make use of dd This is one of the core UNIX utilities and is included in every UNIX like OS UNIX Sun...

Page 56: ...Disc section Select the CD ROM or DVD drive you would like to create an ISO image from Specify the filename of the ISO image and save the CD ROM content in that file Figure 6 13 Nero selection dialog...

Page 57: ...nu 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...

Page 58: ...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...

Page 59: ...Chapter 6 Menu Options Figure 6 16 Monitoring Remote Sensors Screen 2 50...

Page 60: ...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 to the ASMI module s own system...

Page 61: ...l possible rights needed to configure the device and to access all of the functions of the ASMI module Upon delivery of the ASMI module the account for the super user super has the password pass The A...

Page 62: ...pre defined groups You may create 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 pa...

Page 63: ...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 to see the user inf...

Page 64: ...ser Press the button Create to create a user account The button Modify changes the displayed user settings Delete a user by pressing the button Delete Note The ASMI module is equipped with a host inde...

Page 65: ...from his her group or if the user does not belong to a group the permissions can be set individually for this user This page allows you to set these permissions for each group or group less user First...

Page 66: ...er users Figure 6 22 User Console Settings Part 1 Remote Console Settings for Users This selection box displays the user ID for which the values are shown and for which the changes will take effect Se...

Page 67: ...etwork speed Manually Allows to adjust both compression rate and the color depth individually Depending on the selected compression rate the data stream between the ASMI module and the Remote Console...

Page 68: ...red this way Use of the Sun JVM may also be forced see below Sun Microsystems Java Browser Plugin Instructs the web browser of your administration system to use the JVM of Sun Microsystems The JVM in...

Page 69: ...to close Nobody else can open the Remote Console at the same time again until you disable this feature or log off Mouse Hotkey Allows to specify a hotkey combination which starts either the mouse sync...

Page 70: ...equence So the minus sign builds single separate keypresses and keyreleases The sign releases the last key only The asterisk inserts a pause with a duration of 100 milliseconds As an example the key c...

Page 71: ...Windows 2000 or newer mode the remote mouse is always synchronized with the local mouse For a detailed description of the mouse type and recommended options for the different operating systems see the...

Page 72: ...the host system using the special procedure described in Table 4 1 in Chapter 4 Warning Changing the network settings of the ASMI module might result in losing the connection to it In case you change...

Page 73: ...the ASMI module should be accessible from networks other than the local one this IP address must be set to the local network router s IP address Primary DNS Server IP Address IP address of the primar...

Page 74: ...otiation and a fixed setting for the Ethernet transceiver settings interface speed and duplex mode in case auto negotiation does not work correctly LAN interface speed Depending on your network connec...

Page 75: ...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...

Page 76: ...together with the hostname is needed in order to determine the IP address of the registered ASMI module You have to perform the following steps in order to enable Dynamic DNS 1 Make sure that the LAN...

Page 77: ...time The ASMI module card registers itself with the Dynamic DNS server at this time Check interval This is the report interval to the Dynamic DNS server by the ASMI module Warning The ASMI module has...

Page 78: ...tificate KVM Encryption This option controls the encryption of the KVM protocol This protocol is used by the Remote Console to transmit both the screen data to the administrator machine and keyboard a...

Page 79: ...t bits belonging to the network or address range counting from the left Group Based System Access Control This is similar to the option above except that you can specify a group of IP addresses and no...

Page 80: ...odule cards by its user The certificate s underlying secret key is also used for securing the SSL handshake Hence this is a security risk but far better than no encryption at all However it is possibl...

Page 81: ...aved CSR to a CA for certification You will get the new certificate from the CA after a more or less complicated traditional authentication process depending on the CA 3 Upload the certificate to the...

Page 82: ...e city where the organization is located State Province The state or province where the organization is located Country ISO code The country where the organization is located This is the two letter IS...

Page 83: ...t so you have to adjust it again after the ASMI module loses power for more than a few minutes To avoid this you can use a NTP time server which sets up the internal clock automatically to the current...

Page 84: ...n authentication These methods are very useful when you want to map users into specific groups which have certain privileges It is usually far easier and simpler to refer to already existing groups ra...

Page 85: ...lected LDAP server type Here you can refine the search for users that should be known to the ASMI module Active Directory Domain this option represents the active directory domain that is configured i...

Page 86: ...shared secret may consist of up to 128 characters in length and may contain both lowercase and uppercase letters A Z a z numerals 0 9 and other symbols all characters not defined as letters or numera...

Page 87: ...firmware update are logged to a selection of logging destinations see Figure 6 33 and Figure 6 34 Each of those events belong to an event group which can be activated separately For a detailed specif...

Page 88: ...es are shown on each page You can also clear the log file here Event Log Targets List logging enabled If you wish to log events you may use the internal log list of the ASMI module Click on Event Log...

Page 89: ...inuously and you may have to delete it or move it away from time to time SMTP Logging enabled With this option the ASMI module is able to send emails to an address given by the Email address text fiel...

Page 90: ...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...

Page 91: ...to reset the ASMI module via SNMP then do not set a write community Read Community This is the SNMP community which allows you to retrieve information via SNMP Write Community This community allows yo...

Page 92: ...o reset the card You may have a look at Figure 6 36 for an example The data file for support allows you to download the ASMI module data file with specific support information This is an XML file with...

Page 93: ...activity status is displayed RC indicates that the Remote Console is open If the Remote Console is opened in exclusive mode the term exclusive is added For more information about this option see the...

Page 94: ...he ASMI module extended by the event date a short event description and the IP address that the request was sent from You may use the text buttons Prev and Next to browse within the data The button Pr...

Page 95: ...may use WinZip from http www winzip com for Windows OS or a tool named unzip that might be already provided by your OS UNIX Linux OS X Before you can start updating the firmware of your ASMI module th...

Page 96: ...letely Warning This process is not reversible and might take several minutes Make sure the ASMI module s power supply will not be interrupted during the update process because this may result in an un...

Page 97: ...ivate a newly updated firmware It will close all current connections to the administration console and to the Remote Console The whole process takes about half a minute Resetting subdevices e g video...

Page 98: ...ions on these ports 5 Remote console is unable to connect and displays a timeout error Have a look on your hardware If there is a proxy server between the ASMI G4 module and your host then you may not...

Page 99: ...tgoing is set As an alternative you may also use a Mozilla based browser Mozilla FireFox 12 Every time I open a dialog box with some buttons the mouse pointers are not synchronous anymore Disable the...

Page 100: ...rk DNS Domain Name System A protocol used to locate computers on the Internet by their name FAQ Frequently Asked Questions HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol One of the protocols used for communication...

Page 101: ...control protocol SSH Secure Shell An encrypted network protocol providing a secure replacement for Telnet SSL Secure Socket Layer An encryption technology for the Internet used to provide secured data...

Page 102: ...Active Directory 3 Create a Windows user group which will hold all users that are allowed to login to the ASMI module You can allow deny login for a user just by adding removing him her to from this...

Page 103: ...Policy Select Next to get on the Policy Configuration Method page Switch to Set up custom policy and enter a friendly policy name e g ASMI Access Select Next to get on the Policy Conditions page Press...

Page 104: ...The layout for this keyboard is shown in Figure D 1 However most modifier keys and other alphanumeric keys used for hotkey purposes in application programs are on a similar position no matter what la...

Page 105: ...HIFT LCTRL CTRL STRG LALT ALT SPACE ALT GR ESCAPE ESC F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PRINTSCREEN SCROLL LOCK BREAK INSERT HOME POS 1 PAGE_UP PAGE_DOWN DELETE DEL END UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT NUM_LOC...

Page 106: ...Appendix D Key Codes Key Alias Key s NUMPAD7 NUMPAD8 NUMPAD9 NUMPADPLUS NUMPAD_PLUS NUMPAD NUMPADMUL NUMPAD_MUL x NUMPADMINUS NUMPAD_MINUS NUMPADENTER WINDOWS MENU 97...

Page 107: ...tion up to 1A Environment Temperature Table E 2 Temperature Attribute Value Operating Temperature Range 0 degree C to 55 degree C 32 degree F to 131 degree F Storage Temperature Range 18 degree C to 7...

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