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  • Page 1 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Bandwidth Manager BM-2010A / BM-2100 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Customer Service

    Copyright (C) 2004 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-2010A / 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 ........................5 ANDWIDTH ANAGER ANEL 1.5 S ................................
  • Page 4 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.2.8 Access List ..............................28 4.3 R ................................. 30 EPORT 4.3.1 Connection ..............................30 4.3.2 Internal Host..............................31 4.3.3 External Host............................... 31 4.3.4 Service ................................. 31 4.3.5 Top 10 Internal Host........................... 32 4.3.6 Top 10 External Host..........................32 4.3.7 Top 10 Service ............................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1：Introduction

    The BM-2010A 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-2010A / 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 (BM-2100 only) Cat.5 cross-over cable If any of the contents are missing or damaged, please contact your dealer or distributor immediately.

  • Page 7: Bandwidth Manager Front View

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.3 Bandwidth Manager Front View Front View of BM-2100: W AN Bandwidth Manager 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 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual LCD Panel: Used to make IP settings, view IP settings, reboot system, show service information, reset password and reset all configuration. It also show the average bandwidth usage for past 10 seconds when not in configuration mode.

  • Page 9: Bandwidth Manager Rear Panel

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.4 Bandwidth Manager Rear Panel - Rear View of BM-2100: Console 19200, N, 8, 1 AC line : 100~240V AC 50/60Hz Power Console Port LAN Port WAN Port On / Off Port Function...
  • Page 10 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Off: Beeper enabled (default) On: Beeper disabled Off: By-pass function enabled (default) On: By-pass function disabled 3,4 Not used - 6 -...

  • Page 11: Specification

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 1.5 Specification Product 10Mbps and 100Mbps Bandwidth Manager Model BM-2010A BM-2100 Hardware Connections 2 x 10/100Base-TX Button Hardware Reset LCD Panel 16x2 characters LCD System LED System: Power, Status System: PWR, STATUS Network: ACT/LNK, 10/100...

  • Page 12: Chapter 2：Hardware Installation

    BM-2010A / 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 13 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Manager is MDI port. Thus, you can just use straight network to connect the LAN port to your switch or hub. - 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.

  • Page 14: Chapter 3：Getting Started

    BM-2010A / 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 15: Logging In As Administrator

    BM-2010A / 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 16: Chapter 4：Web Configuration

    BM-2010A / 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 17: Network

    1 to 2048 in units of kbps. Save: Press save button to save all these configurations. BM-2010A 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 18: Date/Time

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual allowed. 4.1.4 Date/Time The Date/Time menu contains commands for setting Bandwidth Manager's time and date required for correctly record the bandwidth usage time. User can directly input the date and time or specify the NTP server for the device to synchronize with time-server.
  • Page 19 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual host table, the following buttons are available: New - Create new host catalog. Prev - Go to previous page. 1, 2, … - First, second, … page. Next - Next page. On the Action field of each host name, the following two buttons are provided:...

  • Page 20: 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-2010A 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 21: Snmp

    BM-2010A / 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 22: Backup/Restore

    BM-2010A / 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 23: Firmware Upgrade

    BM-2010A / 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 24: Account

    BM-2010A / 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 25: Logout

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.1.12 Logout You can logout the management interface after finishing your configuration. - 21 -...

  • Page 26: 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-2010A and 1024 for BM-2100. The following functions are provided on this page: New - Create new policy Prev - Go to previous page.
  • Page 27 BM-2010A / 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 28: Protection

    BM-2010A / 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 29: Ip/Mac Binding Setting

    BM-2010A / 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 30: Discover Ip/Mac

    BM-2010A / 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 31: Export / Import

    BM-2010A / 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 32: Access Control Setting

    BM-2010A / 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 33 BM-2010A / 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 34: Report

    BM-2010A / 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 35: Internal Host

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.2 Internal Host This report shows the bandwidth usage rate of each internal host. And you can choose several kinds of period that you want it to display. The graph report shows both inbound and outbound traffic.

  • Page 36: Top 10 Internal Host

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

  • Page 37: Top 10 Service

    BM-2010A / 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. 4.3.7 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 38: Customize

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual You can choose each policy that you want to view. And you can choose several kinds of period that you want it to display. The graph report shows both inbound and outbound traffic.

  • Page 39: Ip Discovery - Text List

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual The following is a part of customized report as a sample. 4.3.10 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.

  • Page 40: Log - Export Log

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual This function provide a graph view all the internal IP addresses which have pass through Bandwidth Manager and their upload and download data and you can choose several periods that you want it to display.
  • Page 41 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual name and password are all correct, the Bandwidth Manager will upload a file named “test_upload” to the remote directory and a small window will pop-up with message of “Server is ready”. Otherwise, it will show “Can not connect to server”.

  • Page 42: Log - To Analyzer

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual First Packet Host: 1 mean Host 1 send the first packet, i.e., host 1 start the session. 2 mean Host 2 send the first packet, i.e., host 2 start the session. Last Packet Host: 1 mean Host 1 send the last packet, i.e., host 1 complete the session. 2 mean Host 2 send the last packet, i.e., host 2 complete the session.

  • Page 43: Alert Event

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 4.3.15 Alert Event Define what event(s) should be alerted by the e-mail alert function. Device Restart: If checked, when the device restarts, it will send an alert message. Cable connected detection: If checked, when the network connection is connecting or disconnecting, it will send an alert message.

  • Page 44: Chapter 5：Using Bandwidth Analyzer

    BM-2010A / 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 Windows 2000 or Windows XP Operation System After you insert the provided CD to the CD-Drive, it should show the following page automatically.

  • Page 45: Install Mysql

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 5.1 Install MySQL Click on “Install MySQL” to install MySQL database. If your computer has installed MySQL, the button will be grayed out and show “MySQL Installed”. Please follow the instruction on the screen to complete the installation.
  • Page 46 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual Click “Browse” to choose another directory (not recommended) and “Next” to continue. Select “Typical” and Click “Next” to continue. - 42 -...
  • Page 47 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual MySQL server and client software start to install to your system. When the following page is shown, click “Finish” to complete the installation. - 43 -...

  • Page 48: Install Mysql Odbc

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 5.2 Install MySQL ODBC 1. Click “Install MySQL ODBC” to start the installation. 2. If your computer has installed MySQL ODBC, the button will be grayed out and show “MySQL ODBC Installed”. 3. Click “Next” to continue.
  • Page 49 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 5. Click “Next” to start the installation. 6. MySQL ODBC will start to install onto your computer. - 45 -...

  • Page 50: Install Bandwidth Analyzer

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 7. Click “Finish” to complete the installation. 5.3 Install Bandwidth Analyzer 1. Click “Install Bandwidth Analyzer” to start the installation of bandwidth analyzer. 2. Click “Next” to continue. - 46 -...
  • Page 51 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 3. Check the license agreement and click “Next” to continue. 4. Click “Browse” to choose another directory and click “Next” to continue. - 47 -...
  • Page 52 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 5. Input the program folder (default is Bandwidth Analyzer) and click “Next” to continue. 6. The installation of Bandwidth Analyzer starts. - 48 -...
  • Page 53 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 7. When the following message is shown, click “OK” to continue. 8. Click “Finish” to complete the installation. - 49 -...

  • Page 54: Using Bandwidth Analyzer

    BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual After the installation process is completed, a program named “Bandwidth Analyzer” will be shown by clicking “Start” -> “Program”. Select the Bandwidth Analyzer to start the program. 5.4 Using Bandwidth Analyzer There are 4 menus on the Bandwidth Manager: 1.
  • Page 55 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual 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. On Index tab, it provides the following options: Duration: Select the analysis time period of the report.
  • Page 56 BM-2010A / 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.
  • Page 57 BM-2010A / BM-2100 Bandwidth Manager User’s Manual - 53 -...

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