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  • Page 1 User’s Manual IP KVM Switch Model No.: SP1200A http://www.micronet.info...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    3.1 PSetup Utility....................7 3.2 Configuration Setup via Serial Console ............8 3.3 Keyboard, Mouse, and Video Configuration..........9 3.3.1 SP1200A Keyboard Settings ................9 3.3.2 Remote Mouse Settings .................10 3.3.3 Host System Mouse Settings ................11 3.3.4 Single and Double Mouse Mode..............11 3.3.5 Recommended Mouse Settings..............12...
  • Page 3 4.7.3 Update Firmware .....................65 4.7.4 Unit Reset ......................66 Chapter 5 Appendix ................... 67 5.1 Key Codes ....................67 5.2 Video Modes ....................68 5.3 User Role Permissions ................68 5.4 SP1200A TCP Port Number ............... 69 5.5 Bandwidth Consumption ................69...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Micronet SP1200A, IP KVM Switch, delivers highly reliable solution to increase operational efficiency and mobility for the enterprise. SP1200A allows Server PC to become accessible over the Internet via web browser. SP1200A can work in conjunction with SP218D/SP226D to allow multiple servers’ images to be transmitted over the Internet.

  • Page 5: System Requirements

    High-performance mouse tracking and synchronization. Automatic adjustment of data rate to transmission line. Remote mass storage control and redirection. System Requirements Java Runtime Environment: version 1.4.2 or above. Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or above or Netscape or Mozilla or Safari. PS/2 interface on KVM/PC for mouse and keyboard connection.

  • Page 6: Chapter 2 Tour Of Product

    Chapter 2 Tour of Product Front View Front View 2.1.1 LED Indication Status Operation Power Device is powered on. RS-232 Blue Data traffic on RS-232 link. Indicate LAN port is active 10/100Mbps and the data speed. Link Blinking Indicate data activity. Rear View Rear View Power Jack/ Backup: Interface for power source and a backup power...

  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    Step 1. Connect the Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse to the local console section on the rear of the device. Step 2. Use the 3-to-3 KVM cable provided to connect SP1200A’s PC section to a KVM switch or PC. Step 3. Connect SP1200A to a network (switch/router) via the LAN port provided using R-45 cable.

  • Page 8: Cable Connections (Pc)

    Cable Connections (PC) This scenario is for direct connection to a single PC/Server by using the included 3-to-3 KVM cable. RS-232 is an alternative interface for connecting to serial modem for access.

  • Page 9: Cable Connections (Kvm Switch)

    Cable Connections (KVM Switch) SP1200A can be connected to a multi-port KVM switch to increase the quantity of controllable servers. By connecting the 3-to-3 KVM cable to the local console interface of the KVM switch, it will transform the SP1200A’s...

  • Page 10: Chapter 3 Configuration

    DHCP, you can use the PSetup to find out the IP KVM’s IP. Users can follow the procedures described below. Step 1. Plug Ethernet cable to SP1200A. The IP KVM will get an IP via DHCP. Step 2. Initiate the ‘psetup.exe’ on product CD. Click <Refresh Devices>...

  • Page 11: Configuration Setup Via Serial Console

    Click on <Setup Device> button to apply the new settings on IP KVM Switch. Configuration Setup via Serial Console For using serial terminal, the SP1200A has a serial line interface (host side). This connector is compliant with the RS-232 serial line standard. The serial line has to be configured with the parameters given in Table below.

  • Page 12: Keyboard, Mouse, And Video Configuration

    3.3.1 SP1200A Keyboard Settings The SP1200A settings for the host's keyboard type have to be corrected in order to make the remote keyboard work properly. Check the settings in the SP1200A Web front-end. Check the relevant sections in the user manual for...

  • Page 13: Remote Mouse Settings

    Remote Mouse Settings A common seen problem with KVM devices is the synchronization between the local and remote mouse cursors. The SP1200A addresses this situation with an intelligent synchronization algorithm. There are two mouse modes available on the IP KVM:...

  • Page 14: Host System Mouse Settings

    Single and Double Mouse Mode The information above applies to the Double Mouse Mode, where remote and local mouse pointers are visible and need to be synchronized. The SP1200A also features another mode, the Single Mouse Mode, where only the remote mouse pointer is visible.

  • Page 15: Recommended Mouse Settings

    3.3.5 Recommended Mouse Settings For the different operating systems we can give the following advice: MS Windows: In general, we recommend the usage of a mouse via USB. Choose USB without Mouse Sync. For a PS/2 mouse choose Auto Mouse Speed. For XP disable the option “enhance pointer precision”...
  • Page 16 Step 1. In the control panel, double click on Network Connections. Double click on the local area connection (e.g. LAN). The following screen will appear. Highlight ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’ and click on ‘Properties’. Step 2. Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’, and then click on the <Properties>...

  • Page 17: Accessing Web-Based Ui

    Java Runtime Environment version 1.4.2 or above. If the browser has no Java support (such as on a small handheld device), you are still able to maintain your SP1200A using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself.
  • Page 18 Figure below shows the dialog box presented by the Internet Explorer 6.0. Step 1. Enter SP1200A’s default IP into the web browser to access web-based settings. Step 2. Login page will appear to prompt users to enter the username and...
  • Page 19 Step 3. Once username and password are correctly entered, below interface will appear to allow users to configure and operate the IP KVM Switch. For further details on each function and selection, please consult the user manual.

  • Page 20: Chapter 4 Web-Based User Interface

    Chapter 4 Web-based User Interface Having logged into the IP KVM successfully, the main page of the IP KVM appears. This page consists of three parts and each of them contains specific information. The buttons on the upper side allow you to navigate within the front end.

  • Page 21: The Remote Console

    The Remote Console The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that tries to establish its own TCP connection to the SP1200A. The protocol that is run over this connection is neither HTTP nor HTTPS, but RFB (Remote Frame Buffer Protocol). As default, RFB tries to establish a connection to TCP port number 443.

  • Page 22: Control Bar Of Remote Console

    However, be aware of the fact that the remote system will react to keyboard and mouse actions with a slight delay. The delay depends on the bandwidth of the link to which you use to connect to the SP1200A. In respect to the keyboard, the very exact remote representation might lead to some confusion as your local keyboard changes its keyboard layout according to the remote host system.
  • Page 23 If the video display is of bad quality or distorted in some way, press this button and wait a few seconds while the SP1200A tries to detect the video mode of VGA port to the controlled host and adjust itself for the best possible video quality.
  • Page 24 Exclusive Access If a user has the appropriate permission, he or she can force the Remote Consoles of all other users to close. No one can open the Remote Console at the same time again until this user disables the exclusive access, or logs off. Scaling Allow you to scale down the Remote Console.
  • Page 25 Remote Console. The number of available shapes depends on the Java Virtual Machine where version 1.4.2 or above offers the full list. Video Settings The menu opens a panel for changing the SP1200A video settings. SP1200A features two different dialogs for adjusting the video settings.
  • Page 26 To enable local video port, select this option. This option decides if the local video output of SP1200A is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system. The option Noise Filter defines how SP1200A reacts to small changes in the video input signal. Turning on the noise filter can help reduce video flickering that is often caused by distortions, as well as lowering unnecessary bandwidth consumption.
  • Page 27 Click to run this menu item for retrieving the whole video again from the controlled host and displayed on Remote Console. In normal situation, it only sent changed parts of video from SP1200A, for saving network bandwidth. This function is mainly used for troubleshooting purpose where some old video fragments are displayed as not updated in time for some reason, for example, noise filter for VGA is setting too large.
  • Page 28 Local Keyboard The function is for changing the language mapping of your browser machine running the Remote Console Applet. Normally, the applet determines the correct value automatically. However, depending on your particular JVM and your browser settings, issues may arise. A typical example is a German localized system that uses an US-English keyboard mapping.
  • Page 29 Compression Level Users may select a value between 1 and 9 for the desired compression level with level 1 enabling the fastest compression and level 9 the best compression. The most suitable compression level should always be seen as a compromise between the network bandwidth that is available, on your video picture to be transferred, and on the number of changes between two single video pictures.

  • Page 30: Status Line Of Remote Console

    Color Depth The function is for setting the desired color depth. Users may select between 8 or 16 bit for Video Optimized/compression level 0, or between 1 and 8 bit for compression level 1 to 9. The higher the color depth, the more video information has to be captured and to be transferred.

  • Page 31: Remote Control Menu

    The Remote Console is the redirected screen, keyboard and mouse of the remote host system that SP1200A controls. The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that tries to establish its own TCP connection to the SP1200A. Starting the Remote Console opens a new window displays screen movement...

  • Page 32: Kvm Console

    > KVM Console’ of the menu entry on the left. 4.2.2 Telnet Console The SP1200A firmware features a Telnet server that enables a user to connect via a standard Telnet client. In case the Telnet program is using a VT 100, VT...
  • Page 33 102 or VT 220 terminal or an according emulation, it is even possible to perform a console redirection as long as the SP1200A host machine is using a text mode screen resolution. Connecting to the SP1200A is done as usual and as required by the Telnet client, for instance in a UNIX shell: telnet 192.168.0.70...

  • Page 34: Virtual Media Menu

    System Win2000, XP or above. This function would not work on other platforms at this moment. Before using Virtual Media, please connect the USB cable from SP1200A to host computer. After connecting the USB cable, you can see a “Removable Disk” on the host computer. Below is the host computer...

  • Page 35: Floppy Disk

    4.3.1 Floppy Disk Step 1. User need to create the floppy to an image file first. Step 2. For this example, we use RawWrite software (or any other image- creator software) to create floppy image. Please use licensed software for this purpose.
  • Page 36 Step 3. Users can find an image file saved at desire destination after you created it with RawWrite. Step 4. Open the browser to log into the SP1200A. Click on ‘Virtual Media > Floppy Disk’ to access below interface. Click the <Browse> button to choose the image file.
  • Page 37 If using other image-creator software, the output image extension file name has to be ‘img’, e.g. floppy_vir.img. The uploaded image file will be kept in the onboard memory of the SP1200A until the end of the current session, as you logged out, or initiated a reboot of the SP1200A.

  • Page 38: Cd-Rom Image

    4.3.2 CD–ROM Image Use Image on Windows Share (SAMBA) To include an image from a Windows share, select “CD-ROM” from the submenu. Step 1. Please run Nero or any CD imaging tool to create CD-ROM ISO image. Step 2. Please create a folder and share this folder. (Please make sure password has to be setup with the authorized user during Sharing ->...
  • Page 39 Parameter Description Share host The server name or its IP address. Share folder name The name of the share folder to be used. Image file name The name of the image files on the share folder. If necessary, specify the username for the share named in User name advance.
  • Page 40 To register the specified file image and its location click on the button <Set>. The specified image file is supposed to be accessible from the SP1200A. The information above has to be given from the point of view of the SP1200A. It is important to specify correct IP addresses, and device names. Otherwise, SP1200A may not be able to access the referenced image file.
  • Page 41 Step 1. Select “Sharing” to open the configuration dialog. Step 2. Adjust the settings for the selected directory. Step 3. Activate the selected directory as a share. Select “Sharing this folder”. Step 4. Choose an appropriate name for the share. You may also add a short description for this folder (input field “Comment”).

  • Page 42: Drive Redirection

    UNIX and UNIX-like OS (Sun Solaris, and Linux) If you like to access the share via SAMBA, SAMBA has to be set up properly. You may either edit the SAMBA configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf, or use the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) or WebMin to set the correct parameters.
  • Page 43 Parameter Description Disable Drive If enabled the Drive Redirection is switched off. Redirection Force read-only If enabled the Write Support for the Drive Redirection is connections switched off. It is not possible to write on a redirected device. Step 1. Please install Drive Redirection Software on remote computer first then run Drive Redirection application and fill in information accordingly.

  • Page 44: Options

    Please note that Virtual Drive creation is by Device manner not by Partition. Which means it looks for I/O in BIOS and sends the corresponding signal to host computer. This way, you are sending the entire hard drive (may consist of ‘X’...

  • Page 45: User Management

    User Management 4.4.1 Change Password Parameter Description Old Password Type in current password New Password type in new password Confirm New Re-type new password for verification Password...

  • Page 46: Users Account

    The SP1200A comes with 1 pre-configured user account that has fixed permissions. The account “super” has all possible rights to configure the device and to use all functions SP1200A offers. Upon delivery, the account “super” has the password “pass”. Make sure to change password immediately after you have installed or on initial access of your SP1200A.

  • Page 47: Kvm Settings

    To guarantee an acceptable response time we recommend not exceeding the number of 15 users connected to the SP1200A at the same time. The memory space that is available onto the SP1200A mainly depends on the configuration and the usage (log file entries etc.).

  • Page 48: User Console

    4.5.1 User Console The following settings are user specific. That means, the super user can customize these settings for every users separately. Changing the settings for one user does not affect the settings for the other users. Transmission Encoding The Transmission Encoding setting allows changing the image-encoding algorithm that is used to transmit the video data to the Remote Console window.
  • Page 49 SP1200A and the Remote Console will be compressed in order to save bandwidth. Since high compression rates consume more computing power of SP1200A, they should not be used while several users are accessing the SP1200A simultaneously. Manually The standard color depth is 16 Bit (65536 colors).
  • Page 50 Miscellaneous Remote Console Settings Parameter Description Sets the initial value for the monitor mode. By default the Start in Monitor Mode monitor mode is off. In case you switch it on, the Remote Console window will be started in a read only mode. Enables the exclusive access mode immediately at Remote Console startup.

  • Page 51: Keyboard/Mouse

    4.5.2 Keyboard/Mouse Parameter Description Enables a certain interface the mouse is connected to. You can choose between “Auto” for automatic detection, “USB” for an USB mouse, and “PS/2” for a PS/2 mouse. To use the USB and/or PS/2 interface you need a correct cabling between the managed host and the managing device.

  • Page 52: Video

    Video Parameter Description This option defines how the SP1200A reacts to small changes in the video input signal. Turning on the noise filter can help reduce video flickering that is often caused by distortions, as well as lowering unnecessary bandwidth consumption. A...

  • Page 53: Device Settings

    When connecting the device directly to legacy Sun computer (with composite sync as the video output), it may be possible Force Composite that SP1200A don’t recognize the composite sync Sync (Required for automatically. To support signal transmission from a Sun Sun Computers) machine, enable this option.

  • Page 54: Network

    Parameter Description With this option you can control if the SP1200A should fetch its network settings from a DHCP or BOOTP server. For IP auto configuration DHCP, select “dhcp” , and for BOOTP select “bootp”...

  • Page 55: Dynamic Dns

    HTTPS server are listening. If left empty the default value HTTPS port will be used. Port number at which the SP1200A's HTTP server is listening. HTTP port If left empty the default value will be used. Port number at which the SP1200A's Telnet server is Telnet port listening.
  • Page 56 The SP1200A is reachable via the IP address of the DSL router, which is dynamically assigned by the provider. Since the administrator does not know the IP address assigned by the provider, the SP1200A connects to a special dynamic DNS server in regular intervals and registers its IP address there. The administrator may contact this server as well and pick up the same IP address belonging to his card.

  • Page 57: Security

    Security Force HTTPS If this option is enabled access to the web front-end is only possible using an HTTPS connection. The SP1200A will not listen on the HTTP port for incoming connections. KVM Encryption This option controls the encryption of the RFB protocol. RFB is used by the Remote Console to transmit both the screen data to the administrator machine and keyboard and mouse data back to the host.
  • Page 58 This is the IP filtering function that keeps unauthorized hosts from accessing to the SP1200A by specifying IP filtering rules. It is important to fully understand what an IP filter is. If you don't fully understand this, you will get unexpected results against your original planning.

  • Page 59: Certificate

    The SP1200A uses the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol for any encrypted network traffic between itself and a connected client. During the connection establishment the SP1200A has to expose its identity to a client using a cryptographic certificate. The default certificate comes with SP1200A device upon delivery is for testing purpose only.
  • Page 60 Upload the certificate to the SP1200A using the <Upload> button Parameter Description This is the network name of the SP1200A once it is installed in the user's network (usually the fully qualified domain name). It is identical to the name that is used to access the Common name SP1200A with a web browser (without the “http://”...

  • Page 61: Serial Port

    Do not use the serial port for any special function but use it only for the initial configuration. Modem The SP1200A offers remote access using a telephone line in addition to the standard access over the built-in Ethernet adapter. The modem needs to be connected to the serial interface of the SP1200A. Logically, connecting to the SP1200A using a telephone line means nothing else than building up a dedicated point-to-point connection from your console computer to the device.
  • Page 62 SP1200A using a modem. The meaning of each parameter will be described below. The modem settings are part of the serial settings panel. Parameter Description The speed the SP1200A is communicating with the modem.

  • Page 63: Date / Time

    4.6.6 Date / Time This link refers to a page, where the internal real-time clock of the SP1200A can be set up. Users have the possibility to adjust the clock manually, or to use a NTP timeserver. Without a timeserver, your time setting will not be persistent, so you have to adjust it again, after SP1200A loses power for more than a few minutes.

  • Page 64: Event Log

    The common way to log events is to use the internal log list of the SP1200A. In order to show the log list, please click on <Event Log> under “Maintenance”. In the Event Log Settings you can...
  • Page 65 Parameter Description The common way to log events is to use the internal log list of the SP1200A. In order to show the log list, please click on <Event Log> under “Maintenance”. Since the SP1200A’s List logging enabled system memory is used to save all the information, the maximum number of possible log list entries is restricted to 1000 events.

  • Page 66: Maintenance

    Maintenance...

  • Page 67: Device Information

    This section contains a summary with various information about SP1200A including firmware version. The Data file for support allows you to download the SP1200A data file with specific support information. This is an XML file with certain customized support information like the serial number etc. Users may send us this information together with a support request.

  • Page 68: Even Log

    4.7.3 Update Firmware The SP1200A is a complete standalone device. The software it runs is called firmware. The firmware of the SP1200A can be updated remotely in order to install new functionality or special features. A new firmware update is a binary file which will be sent to you by email or which you can download from the supplier web site.

  • Page 69: Unit Reset

    This section allows you to reset specific parts of the device. This involves the both keyboard and mouse, the video engine and the SP1200A itself. Resetting the card itself is mainly needed to activate a newly updated firmware. It will close all current connections to the administration console and to the Remote Console.

  • Page 70: Chapter 5 Appendix

    Chapter 5 Appendix Key Codes Table below shows the key codes used to defines keystrokes or hotkeys for several functions. Please note that these key codes do not represent necessarily key characters that are used on international keyboards. They name a key on a standard 104 key PC keyboard with an US English language mapping.

  • Page 71: Video Modes

    Video Modes Table below lists the video modes SP1200A supports. Please don’t use other custom video settings besides these. Otherwise, SP1200A may not be able to detect them. User Role Permissions Table below lists the user role permissions granted for three user role groups:...

  • Page 72: Sp1200A Tcp Port Number

    Compression and Color Depth configuration in order to match the different bandwidth limitations of the network type (UMTS, ISDN, etc.). The following suggested network bandwidth planning table for SP1200A installation is from the test results with 3D-Labyrinth screen saver at Resolution 800x600, the...

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