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  • Page 1 2Mbps Bandwidth Manager BM-2002 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-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Table of Contents CHAPTER 1：INTRODUCTION........................1 1.1 F ..............................1 EATURES 1.2 P ..........................1 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1.3 B ......................2 ANDWIDTH ANAGER RONT 1.4 B ......................3 ANDWIDTH ANAGER ANEL 1.5 S ............................4 PECIFICATION CHAPTER 2：HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................
  • Page 4 BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.2.8 Access List............................27 4.3 R ..............................29 EPORT 4.3.1 Connection ............................. 29 4.3.2 Internal Host ........................... 29 4.3.3 Service............................30 4.3.4 Top 10 Host ............................ 30 4.3.5 Top 10 Service..........................31 4.3.6 Bandwidth Policy ..........................32 4.3.7 Customize............................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1：Introduction

    Expensive WAN resources are more effectively utilized, avoiding the need for costly upgrades while still meeting business priorities. The PLANET BM-2002 is simple to install, with two 10/100Mbps Ethernet port for connecting to the local network and the WAN router respectively. For bandwidth management, packets can be classified based on IP address, IP subnet and TCP/UDP port number.

  • Page 6: Bandwidth Manager Front View

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.3 Bandwidth Manager Front View Power LED HDD LED WAN LED LAN LED Status Meaning Lit Green Indicates the device is receiving power Lit Red Indicates the system is reading or writing data to memory...

  • Page 7: Bandwidth Manager Rear Panel

    This port is MDI interface This is where you will connect the RJ-45 line to your router WAN Port or ISP. This port is MDI interface Press this button to have your BM-2002’s setting set to Factory Default Factory Default Reset...

  • Page 8: Specification

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.5 Specification Model BM-2002 Hardware Connections 2 x 10/100Base-TX RS-232 Console Button Hardware Reset, Factory Default System LED System: Power, HDD Network: ACT/LNK, 100 Power 100~240 VAC, 50~60Hz Operating Environment Temperature: 5~40°C Relative Humidity: 20%~90%...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2：Hardware Installation

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Chapter 2：Hardware Installation 2.1 Installation Requirements Before installing the BM-2002 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 shelf.

  • Page 10: Install Bandwidth Manager To Your Network

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 2.3 Install Bandwidth Manager To Your Network ¨ Choose an Installation Site Select a suitable place on the network to install the Bandwidth Manager. ¨ Connect LAN Cables Use standard LAN cables to connect your LAN side Switch or Hub to the LAN ports on Bandwidth Manager.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3：Getting Started

    BM-2002 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 Configuration On A Client Side to link with Bandwidth Manager You must use web browser to manage Bandwidth Manager with SSL protection. Before starting to configure bandwidth management rules, you should configure client’s network setting first.
  • Page 12 BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 2. Right - click the Local Area Connection icon and select Properties. You should see a screen like the following: 3. Select the TCP/IP protocol for your network card. 4. Click on the Properties button. You should then see a screen like the following.

  • Page 13: Logging In As Administrator

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 3. Select the TCP/IP protocol for your network card. 4. Click on the Properties button. You should then see a screen like the following. 5. Select “Use the following IP address" and input “192.168.0.200” (or other IP in the same subnet) on the IP Address field and “255.255.255.0”...
  • Page 14 BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual You must key in user name and password to enter its web management interface. The default user name is “admin” without password. Then, you will enter Bandwidth Manager’s Configuration Menu. - 10 -...

  • Page 15: Chapter 4：Web Configuration

    BM-2002 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: System Settings: The basic system configurations...

  • Page 16: Network

    Save: Press save button to save all these configurations. BM-2002 allows up to 2Mbps (2048kbps) inbound/outbound bandwidth in both directions of its WAN port. Please be aware of the bandwidth that your Internet services provider provided. It is not necessary to configure Inbound and outbound bandwidth in the same values.

  • Page 17: Date/Time

    The Date/Time information will be used in the reporting system (refer to section 4.3). If your BM-2002 can reach to the Internet, you can find the nearest NTP server in the Internet for your BM-2002 that should provide the accurate date and time for the bandwidth manager.
  • Page 18 BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual - Modify the host catalog - Delete the host catalog After clicking “New” or Modify button, the following host configuration page will be shown: ¨ Host Name: The name of specified IP address or a range of IP address. With it, you can easily tell the bandwidth usage through this meaningful name.

  • Page 19: Service

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.1.6 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 256. The bandwidth Manager have contained 22 predefine services.

  • Page 20: Snmp

    BM-2002 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 21: Backup/Restore

    BM-2002 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 22: Firmware Upgrade

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 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. After restore is completed, a “Restore complete“ window prompts. Click “OK” to continue.

  • Page 23: Account

    BM-2002 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 24: Logout

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.1.12 Logout You can logout the management interface after finishing your configuration. - 20 -...

  • Page 25: Policy Editor

    BM-2002 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.2 Policy Editor You can setup all the control policies, make IP/MAC binding for security and control access right in this section. 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 256.
  • Page 26 BM-2002 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 27: Protection

    BM-2002 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 28: Ip/Mac Binding Setting

    BM-2002 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 29: Discover Ip/Mac

    BM-2002 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 30: Export / Import

    BM-2002 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 31: Access Control Setting

    BM-2002 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 32 BM-2002 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 33: Report

    BM-2002 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 34: Service

    BM-2002 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 35: Top 10 Service

    BM-2002 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 36: Bandwidth Policy

    BM-2002 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 37: Customize

    BM-2002 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 38: Ip Discovery - Text List

    BM-2002 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 39: Log - Export Log

    BM-2002 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 40 BM-2002 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.
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