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  • Page 1 Bandwidth Manager BM-2010 / BM-2100 User’s Manual...
  • Page 2: Customer Service

    Copyright (C) 2003 PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. The products and programs described in this User ’s Manual are licensed products of PLANET Technology, This User ’s Manual contains proprietary information protected by copyright, and this User ’s Manual and all accompanying hardware, software, and documentation are copyrighted.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Table of Contents CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION........................1 1.1 F ..............................1 EATURES 1.2 P ..........................2 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1.3 B ......................3 ANDWIDTH ANAGER RONT 1.4 B ......................4 ANDWIDTH ANAGER ANEL 1.5 S ............................
  • Page 4 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3 R ..............................28 EPORT 4.3.1 Connection ............................. 28 4.3.2 Internal Host ........................... 28 4.3.3 Service............................29 4.3.4 Top 10 Host ............................ 29 4.3.5 Top 10 Service..........................30 4.3.6 Bandwidth Policy ..........................31 4.3.7 Customize............................
  • Page 5: Chapter 1:Introduction

    The BM-2010 and BM-2100 also provide a graphical report for either the top ten internal hosts or services that generate traffic. A free utility, Bandwidth Analyzer, is also provided to help you make further analysis of the bandwidth usage.
  • Page 6: Package Contents

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.2 Package Contents The following items should be included: ¨ Bandwidth Manager ¨ Power Cord ¨ Quick Installation Guide ¨ User’s Manual and utility CD ¨ Rack mounting kit If any of the contents are missing or damaged, please contact your dealer or distributor immediately.
  • Page 7: Bandwidth Manager Front View

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.3 Bandwidth Manager Front View Front View: Bandwidth Manager W AN 100 ACT LN K 100 ACT LN K ENTER BM-2100 LCD Panel LED Panel LCD Panel: Used to make IP settings, view IP settings, reboot system, show service information, reset password and reset all configuration.
  • Page 8: Bandwidth Manager Rear Panel

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.4 Bandwidth Manager Rear Panel - Rear View: Console 19200, N, 8, 1 AC line : 100~240V AC 50/60Hz Power Console Port LAN Port WAN Port On / Off Port Function This is where you will connect the AC Power power cord.
  • Page 9: Specification

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.5 Specification Product 10Mbps and 100Mbps Bandwidth Manager Model BM-2010 BM-2100 Hardware Connections 2 x 10/100Base-TX Button Hardware Reset LCD Panel 16x2 characters LCD System LED System: PWR, STATUS Network: ACT, LNK, 100 for LAN and WAN ports...
  • Page 10: Chapter 2:Hardware Installation

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Chapter 2:Hardware Installation 2.1 Installation Requirements Before installing the Bandwidth Manager, make sure your network meets the following requirements. - Mechanical Requirements The Bandwidth Manager is to be installed between your router and local area network. The Bandwidth Manager can be placed on the table or rack.
  • Page 11 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual - Connect WAN Cable Connect the router, DSL or Cable modem to the WAN port on Bandwidth Manager. The LAN and WAN port of Bandwidth Manager are both MDI port. Thus, in some case, you may need to use cross-over cable to connect your router, DSL or cable modem.
  • Page 12: Chapter 3:Getting Started

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Chapter 3:Getting Started This chapter explains how to setup your computer to be a client to manage the Bandwidth Manager. 3.1 Initial Setup by LCD Panel 1. Press (ENTER) button to enter Select menu.
  • Page 13: Logging In As Administrator

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 3.2 Logging in as Administrator Now you can communicate with Bandwidth Manager by web browser. Open the web browser and type https://192.168.0.250:8889. Please note that “8889” is the port number of Bandwidth Manager management interface, “https” here is to invoke the SSL of you web browser.
  • Page 14: Chapter 4:Web Configuration

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Chapter 4:Web Configuration This chapter introduces how to configure the Bandwidth Manager to effectively control your bandwidth usage. On the top of the Web interface, there is three major menu of the bandwidth manager:...
  • Page 15: Network

    ¨ Save: Press save button to save all these configurations. BM-2010 allows up to 10Mbps (10240kbps) and BM-2100 allows up to 100Mbps (102400kbps) inbound/outbound bandwidth in both directions of its WAN port. Please be aware of the bandwidth that your Internet services provider provided.
  • Page 16: Date/Time

    IP address that you want to manage to the host catalog. This host catalog is useful on defining policy. The total number of host catalog, service catalog and policies cannot exceed 512 for BM-2010 and 1024 for BM-2100.
  • Page 17 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Next - Next page. On the Action field of each host name, the following two buttons are provided: - Modify the host catalog - Delete the host catalog After clicking “New” or Modify button, the following host configuration page will be shown: ¨...
  • Page 18: Service

    The Service Catalog contains all the popular services that you may want to manage. The total number of host catalog, service catalog and policies can not exceed 512 for BM-2010 and 1024 for BM-2100. The bandwidth Manager have contained 22 predefine services. For other Internet services, however, you can direct click on New to add the services or click on Modify icon to modify and remove by click on the delete icon.
  • Page 19: Snmp

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Name: Name of this service. For example, www, http or telnet. ¨ Protocol: Choose which kind of protocol this service use. For example, Telnet is using TCP; voice data transmission like PLANET VoIP gateway, is using UDP.
  • Page 20: Backup/Restore

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Enable SNMP: Check this box to enable the SNMP function. ¨ Community Strings: A community entry authorized for management access. The network management station must use same string to read the SNMP data from the device.
  • Page 21: Firmware Upgrade

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Restore: Press “Browse…” button to select the configuration file you have saved before. Then press “Start” button to start upload configuration file to Bandwidth Manager. After confirm backup date and network settings, press “Restore” button to start restore all of the configurations to Bandwidth Manager.
  • Page 22: Account

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.1.10 Account You can change the user name and password when you log in on this window. ¨ Old Name: The old name you use to log in Bandwidth Manager ¨ New Name: The new name that you want to change.
  • Page 23: Logout

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.1.12 Logout You can logout the management interface after finishing your configuration. - 19 -...
  • Page 24: Policy Editor

    4.2.1 Policy Editor Here will list all the policies that you have made. The total number of host catalog, service catalog and policies can not exceed 512 for BM-2010 and 1024 for BM-2100. The following functions are provided on this page: ¨...
  • Page 25 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual packet, it will stop the checking and apply the guarantee bandwidth, burst bandwidth and priority to the packet. Thus, always put mission-critical traffic policy in the front to get higher performance. ¨ Internal Host: The internal host that you want to manage. You have to first define the internal host on host catalog.
  • Page 26: Protection

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Enable: Enable or disable this schedule. ¨ Save/Cancel: Press “Save” button to save all the configurations and “Cancel” button to discard your configurations. 4.2.2 Protection The Bandwidth Manager provides extended capabilities for filtering out any malicious attacks based on TCP, UDP, or ICMP protocols.
  • Page 27: Ip/Mac Binding Setting

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Segment Size) is another way to set the maximum packet size. This is a field in the TCP Options part of a SYN packet. By enable MSS clamping, the bandwidth manager calculates the proper MSS for your link and tell the remote side unequivocally 'do not ever try to send me packets bigger than this value'.
  • Page 28: Discover Ip/Mac

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual - Delete the IP/MAC binding Press “New” or modify button, the IP/MAC Table configuration page will be shown as the following. ¨ MAC Address: The MAC address of the host in format of xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
  • Page 29: Export / Import

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ Clear All: Unselect al the IP/MAC binding. ¨ Select All: Select all the IP/MAC binding. ¨ Import: Import the selected IP/MAC binding to the IP/MAC Table. ¨ Cancel: Discard the discover result and go back to Discover IP/MAC page.
  • Page 30: Access Control Setting

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.2.7 Access Control Setting Access Control function allows you to control the access right of packets based on their IP address and TCP/UDP port. In Access Control setting, you can enable or disable the access control function and choose its access control mode.
  • Page 31 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Press “New” or Modify button, the access list configuration page will be shown as the following. ¨ Order: Access List processing sequence. When the Bandwidth Manager receives a packet, it will find the packet’s Source Host, Destination Host and Service and check which Access List the packet applies.
  • Page 32: Report

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3 Report PLANET Bandwidth Manager can monitor all the inbound and outbound packets and automatically categorize to provide versatile reports. These reports help you to analyze the traffic flowing through your Bandwidth Manager and aid you in determining the optimum configuration for your system.
  • Page 33: Service

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.3 Service This report shows the bandwidth usage rate that each service used. And you can choose several kinds of period that you want it to display. The graph report shows both inbound and outbound traffic.
  • Page 34: Top 10 Service

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Press button to view graph report of specified internal host. The graph report shows both inbound and outbound traffic. 4.3.5 Top 10 Service This report shows top 10 bandwidth usage of services. And you can choose several kinds of period that you want it to display.
  • Page 35: Bandwidth Policy

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Press button to view graph report of specified service. The graph report shows both inbound and outbound traffic. 4.3.6 Bandwidth Policy You can choose each policy that you want to view. And you can choose several kinds of period that you want it to display.
  • Page 36: Customize

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.7 Customize This function offers system administrator to easily collect network bandwidth usage rate information to report. The Bandwidth Manager will record the traffic of all the defined host catalog, service catalog and policy and save the following data in a specified time period: ¨...
  • Page 37: Ip Discovery - Text List

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.8 IP Discovery - Text List This function lists all the internal IP addresses which have pass through Bandwidth Manager and their upload and download data for past one day. This offer you an easily way for you to know which host use most bandwidth and how many bandwidth it have used for past one day.
  • Page 38: Log - Export Log

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.10 Log – Export Log This function allows you to send all the session statistics to a FTP server. The log data which compressed with tgz is sent to FTP server every 5 minutes. This data is suitable for you to make your own analysis and even billing.
  • Page 39 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Once you click “Save”, the Bandwidth Manager will start to export the logo data to FTP server every 5 minutes. The file name format of log data is “year-month-day-hour-minute.txt.gz”. For example, 2003-05-21-19-15.txt.gz. The minute represent the start time of the log data. Each log file contains many connection session for the 5 minutes.
  • Page 40: Log - To Analyzer

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.11 Log – To Analyzer This function allows you to export the connection data to Bandwidth Analyzer for further analysis. You can know each IP’s bandwidth usage and service usage ratio from this free utility. Please note this utility can only run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
  • Page 41: Chapter 5:Bandwidth Analyzer

    BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Chapter 5:Bandwidth Analyzer Bandwidth Analyzer is a free utility that help you to make further analysis of your bandwidth usage. System Requirement: ¨ Pentium II or higher ¨ At least 128MB RAM ¨...
  • Page 42 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual or choose another Analysis window. 4. Help – Show the version information of Bandwidth Manager. On each analysis window, it provides five tabs: Index, IP Flow Detail, Top 10 IP flow Chart, Advanced IP flow Chart, Advanced Service Flow Chart.
  • Page 43 BM-2010 / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual ¨ IP Flow Detail tab: You can also click the IP Flow Detail to know the bandwidth usage status of all hosts. Advanced Analysis - After the report is generated, this option becomes available.
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