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  • Page 1: User Manual

    LevelOne KVM-9000 IP KVM Extender User Manual Version 1.1-0609...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Cable diagrams ..........................7 .......................... 8 ARDWARE INSTALLATION Operation Overview ........................8 Connecting KVM-9000 to the host system ..................8 Scenario of connecting KVM-9000 to the Multi-port KVM Switch system ....... 11 ............................12 ONFIGURATION Initial Configuration ........................12 4.1.1 Initial configuration via DHCP server..................
  • Page 4 KVM Settings..........................42 6.4.1 User Console ........................42 6.4.2 Keyboard/Mouse ........................45 6.4.3 Video............................. 46 Device Settings..........................48 6.5.1 Network ..........................48 6.5.2 Dynamic DNS ........................50 6.5.3 Security..........................52 6.5.4 Certificate ..........................53 6.5.5 Serial Port ..........................55 6.5.6 Date And Time........................

  • Page 5: The Quick Installation Guide

    KVM-9000 recognizes a limited number of common video modes. When running X-Window on the host system, please don’t use any custom mode lines with special video modes. If done so, KVM-9000 may not be able to detect these. You are on the safe side with all standard VESA video modes. Please refer to Appendix C for a list of all known modes.

  • Page 6: Web Interface

    After confirming, KVM-9000 performs a reset. 2. Use a crossover Ethernet cable to connect KVM-9000 to a subnet where a DHCP server is available. After the DHCP server has assigned an IP address to KVM-9000 you can use the web interface to configure the device.
  • Page 7 Video Settings in Options Menu This opens a new window with elements to control the KVM-9000 Video Settings. You can change some values, for instance the brightness and contrast of the picture displayed, which may improve the video quality.

  • Page 8: Introduction

    110 MHz dot clock. This results in a screen resolution of 1280x1024 pixels with a frame rate of 60 When the server is up and running KVM-9000 gives you a full control over the remote server. The Management Console allows you to access the remote server’s graphics, keyboard and mouse and to send special commands to the server.

  • Page 9: Features

    Port to connect a user console for direct analogous access to KVM switch Local Mouse suppression (only when using SUN’s Java Virtual Machine) Remote mass storage control. Package contents Base unit- Single port KVM-9000 1 PC User’s manual 1 PC...

  • Page 10: System Requirement

    2.5 Technical specifications Model No. Single port KVM-9000 PC Port Console Port PC Port Connector PS/2 Keyboard Mini Din 6 pin (All Female Types) PS/2 Mouse Mini Din 6 pin VGA HDDB 15 pin USB Type B receptacle Console Port...

  • Page 11: Cable Diagrams

    Cable diagrams PS/2 Cable: Mini Din 6 pin Male to Male VGA Cable: HDB15 pin Male to Male USB 2.0 Cable: USB A-B cable AT to PS/2 keyboard adapter: (Optional) Din 5 pins Male to Mini Din 6 pin Female CAT5/5E/6 Straight Through UTP/STP Cable: 8P8C...

  • Page 12: Hardware Installation

    3 Hardware installation Operation Overview Figure 3-1 shows the connections of KVM-9000 to its host, to peripheral devices, to the power source and to the local area network. Single port IP-KVM IP Network Administrator Figure 3-1.a: KVM-9000 usage scenario Single port...
  • Page 13 Step 2 Connect the monitor to the KVM-9000 console side. Step 3 Connect the keyboard to the KVM-9000 console side. Step 4 Connect the mouse to the KVM-9000 console side. Step 5 Connect a VGA cable (15-pin HDDB Male / Male) with the Male side to both of the PC and the host of the KVM-9000.
  • Page 14 Modem 3.2.1 Ethernet connection The rear side of KVM-9000 provides a RJ-45 connector for Ethernet. The connector is used either for a 100 Mbps 100BASE-TX connection or for a 10 Mbps 10BASE-T connection. The adapter can sense the connection speed and will adjust to the appropriate operation mode automatically.

  • Page 15: Scenario Of Connecting Kvm-9000 To The Multi-Port Kvm Switch System

    Scenario of connecting KVM-9000 to the Multi-port KVM Switch system...

  • Page 16: Configuration

    4.1.1 Initial configuration via DHCP server By default, the KVM-9000 will try to contact a DHCP server in the subnet to which it is physically connected. If a DHCP server is found, it may provide a valid IP address, gateway address and net mask.

  • Page 17: Initial Configuration Via Serial Console

    Figure4-1. KVM-9000 setup tool On the upper left corner, the MAC address of the KVM-9000 is displayed. To detect the MAC address, manually, press the button “Refresh Devices”. The displayed MAC address is the same MAC address printed on the white sticker placed on the back of the KVM-9000. If the KVM-9000 is connected via USB, it is classified as an USB device and an appropriate drive letter is chosen for this device.

  • Page 18: Keyboard, Mouse And Video Configuration

    When configuring with a serial terminal, reset the KVM-9000 and immediately press the “ ESC ” key. You will see some device information, and a “ => ” prompt. Enter “config”, press “ Enter ” and wait for a few seconds for the configuration questions to appear.
  • Page 19 The following limitations do not apply in case of USB and Mouse Type “MS Windows 2000 and newer”. While the KVM-9000 works with accelerated mice and is able to synchronize the local with the remote mouse pointer, there are the following limitations, which may prevent this...
  • Page 20 The KVM-9000 recognizes a limited number of common video modes. When running X11 on the host system, please do not use any custom mode lines with special video modes. If you do, the KVM-9000 may not be able to detect them. We recommend using any of the standard VESA video modes, instead...

  • Page 21: Usage

    A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to the KVM-9000's serial port via a terminal mode. The primary interface of the KVM-9000 is the HTTP interface. This is covered extensively in this chapter. Other interfaces are addressed in subtopics.

  • Page 22: Login Into The Kvm-9000 And Logout

    The address used might be a plain IP address or a host and domain name, in the case where you have given your KVM-9000 a symbolic name in the DNS. For instance, type the following in the address line of your browser when establishing an unsecured connection: http://<IP address of IP-KVM>...
  • Page 23 Warning The user “ super ” is not allowed to login via the serial interface of the KVM-9000. Warning Please make sure to change the super user password immediately after you have installed and accessed your KVM-9000 for the first time. Not changing the pass...

  • Page 24: Logout From The Kvm-9000

    Table 5-2. Buttons from the front end Warning If there is no activity for half an hour, the KVM-9000 will log you out, automatically. A click on one of the links will bring you back to the login screen. 5.2.2 Logout from the KVM-9000 This link logs out the current user and presents a new login screen.

  • Page 25: Main Window

    (see also Chapter 6 for defining new button keys). Auto Adjust button If the video display is of bad quality or distorted in some way, press this button and wait a few seconds while the KVM-9000 tries to adjust itself for the best possible video quality.
  • Page 26 Sync mouse Activates the mouse synchronization process. Choose this option in order to synchronize the local with the remote mouse cursor. This is especially necessary when using accelerated mouse settings on the host system. In general, there is no need to change mouse settings on the host Single/Double mouse mode Switches between the Single Mouse Mode (where only the remote mouse pointer is...
  • Page 27 • Exclusive Access If a user has the appropriate permission, he 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. A change in the access mode is also visible in the status line (see Figure 5-7).
  • Page 28 Video Settings through the HTML-Frontend To enable local video port, select this option. This option decides if the local video output of KVM-9000 is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system. The option Noise Filter defines how KVM-9000 reacts to small changes in the video input signal.
  • Page 29 Video Settings through the remote console Figure 5-11. Video Settings Panel Brightness Controls the brightness of the picture Contrast Controls the contrast of the picture Clock Defines the horizontal frequency for a video line and depends on the video mode. Different video card types may require different values here. The default settings in conjuction with the auto adjustment procedure should be adequate for all common configurations.
  • Page 30 Figure 5-12. Soft Keyboard Opens up the Menu for the Soft-Keyboard. • Show Pops up the Soft-Keyboard. The Soft-Keyboard is necessary in case your host system runs a completely different language and country mapping than your administration machine. • Mapping Used for choosing the according language and country mapping of the Soft-Keyboard.
  • Page 31 US-English keyboard mapping. In this case you have to change the Local Keyboard setting to the right language, manually. • Hotkeys Opens a list of hotkeys defined before. Choose one entry, the command will be sent to the host system. A confirmation dialog can be added that will be displayed before sending the selected command to the remote host.

  • Page 32: Menu Options

    6 Menu Options Remote Control 6.1.1 KVM Console Figure 6-1. KVM Console To open the KVM console, either clicks on the menu entry on the left, or on the console picture on the right. To refresh the picture, click on the button “Refresh”. For the power settings see the Section called Remote Power.
  • Page 33 [host|card] Resets the given target, the host system or the KVM-9000 card. If no reset target is given it defaults to “ host ” . Note that resetting the KVM-9000 results in disconnecting every client. This includes also the client the reset command was sent from.
  • Page 34 terminal Starts the terminal passthrough mode for serial port 1. The key sequence esc exit switches back to the command mode. The command has an optional parameter (1 or 2) to select the desired serial port for passthrough access.

  • Page 35: Virtual Media

    • Second, click on the button “Upload” to initiate the transfer of the chosen image file into the KVM-9000 s onboard memory. This image file is kept in the onboard memory of the KVM-9000 until the end of the current session, until you logged out, or initiated a reboot of the KVM-9000.

  • Page 36: Cd Rom

    6.2.2 CD ROM Use Image on Windows Share (SAMBA) To include an image from a Windows share, select “ CD-ROM ” from the submenu. Figure 6-6. Selecting CD ROM Figure 6-7. Select Windows Share The following information has to be given to mount the image properly: Share host The server name, or its IP address.
  • Page 37 The specified image file is supposed to be accessible from the KVM-9000. The information above has to be given from the point of view of the KVM-9000. It is important to specify correct IP addresses, and device names. Otherwise, KVM-9000 may not be able to access the referenced image file.
  • Page 38 /tmp/floppy.image. Adjust both parameters exactly to your needs (input device etc.) MS Windows You can use the tool “RawWrite for Windows”. It is included on the CD ROM shipped with KVM-9000. Figure 6-10. RawWrite for Windows selection dialog...
  • Page 39 From the menu, select the tab “Read”. Enter (or choose) the name of the file in which you would like to save the floppy content. Click on the button “Copy” to initiate the image creation process. For related tools you may have a look at www.fdos.org 1 CD ROM/ISO Images UNIX and UNIX-like OS To create an image file, make use of “dd”.

  • Page 40: Drive Redirection

    6.2.3 Drive redirection Warning 1. Drive Redirection is only possible with Windows 2000 and the latter version. 2. The Drive Redirection works on a low SCSI level and the SCSI protocol cannot recognize partitions; therefore the whole hard disk selected will be shared instead of any particular partition.
  • Page 41 Figure 5-17. KVM Vision Viewer Setup step...
  • Page 42 Figure 5-17. Create a new Device Figure 5-17. Device Configuration dialog Device Name: Enter a name to your device. Network Address: Enter an IP address the KVM-9000 uses. Authentication Port: This is a fixed number “443”. Username: The factory default Username is “super”...
  • Page 43 Click Ok, the new device will be added as below, Figure 5-18. New Device 6.2.3.3 Drive Redirection Settings Move the cursor to the new device that has been created. Click on “Device” then select “Drive Redirection” and “Redirect local drive”. Figure 5-19.

  • Page 44: Options

    Port: This is a fixed number “443”. Warning Please be cautious that if “Allow Write Support” is selected, all data on the shred media might be destroyed. Device Authentication The factory default Username is “super” and the default Password is “pass”. Click Ok, the new device icon will be changed as below, Figure 5-21.

  • Page 45: User Management

    User Management 6.3.1 Change Password Figure 6-12. Set password To change your password, enter the new password in the upper entry field. Retype the password in the filed below. Click “ Apply ” to submit your changes. 6.3.2 Users And Groups Figure 6-13.

  • Page 46: Kvm Settings

    KVM-9000 offers. The account “user” has only the permission to open and use the Remote Console. Even his user name and password can only be changed by the super account.
  • Page 47 Manually Allows to adjust both compression rate and the colour depth individually. Depending on the selected compression rate the data stream between the KVM-9000 and the Remote Console will be compressed in order to save bandwidth. Since high compression rates are very time consuming, they should not be used while several users are accessing the KVM-9000 simultaneously.
  • Page 48 Internet you can also pre-install the JVM on your administration machine. The software is available on the CD ROM that is delivered along with the KVM-9000.) Miscellaneous Remote Console Settings Start in Monitor Mode Sets the initial value for the monitor mode.

  • Page 49: Keyboard/Mouse

    “ keycode” is the key to be sent. Multiple key codes can be concatenated with a plus, or a minus sign. The plus sign builds key combinations, all keys will be pressed until a minus sign or the end of the combination is encountered. In this case all pressed keys will be released in reversed sequence.

  • Page 50: Video

    Mouse Speed • Auto mouse speed Use this option if the mouse settings on host use an additional acceleration setting. The KVM-9000 tries to detect the acceleration and speed of the mouse during the mouse sync process. • Fixed mouse speed Use a direct translation of mouse movements between the local and the remote pointer.
  • Page 51 This option decides if the local video output of the KVM-9000 is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system. Miscellaneous Video Settings • Noise filter This option defines how the KVM-9000 reacts to small changes in the video input signal.

  • Page 52: Device Settings

    KVM-9000. IP auto configuration With this option you can control if the KVM-9000 should fetch its network settings from a DHCP or BOOTP server. For DHCP, select “dhcp” , and for BOOTP select “bootp”...
  • Page 53 Port number at which the KVM-9000's Remote Console server and HTTPS server are listening. If left empty the default value will be used. HTTP port Port number at which the KVM-9000's HTTP server is listening. If left empty the default value will be used. Telnet port Port number at which the KVM-9000's Telnet server is listening.

  • Page 54: Dynamic Dns

    (see Figure 6-21): Figure 6-21. Dynamic DNS Scenario The KVM-9000 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 KVM-9000 connects to a special dynamic DNS server in regular intervals...
  • Page 55 IP address belonging to his card. The administrator has to register an KVM-9000 that is supposed to take part in the service with the Dynamic DNS Server and assign a certain hostname to it. He will get a nickname and a password in return to the registration process.

  • Page 56: Security

    If this option is enabled access to the web front-end is only possible using an HTTPS connection. The KVM-9000 will not listen on the HTTP port for incoming connections. In case you want to create your own SSL certificate that is used to identify the KVM-9000 refer to the Section called Certificate.

  • Page 57: Certificate

    • Send the saved 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). • Upload the certificate to the KVM-9000 using the “ Upload ” button as shown in Figure 6-24...
  • Page 58 Warning If you destroy the CSR on the KVM-9000 there is no way to get it back! In case you deleted it by mistake, you have to repeat the three steps as described above.

  • Page 59: Serial Port

    Confirm Challenge Password Confirmation of the Challenge Password Email The email address of a contact person that is responsible for the KVM-9000 and its security. Key length This is the length of the generated key in bits. 1024 Bits are supposed to be sufficient for most cases.
  • Page 60 Since it is a point-to-point IP connection virtually every IP address is possible but you must make sure, it is not interfering with the IP settings of the KVM-9000 and your console computer. The default value will work in most cases.

  • Page 61: Date And Time

    Figure 6-27. Date and Time This link refers to a page, where the internal real-time clock of the KVM-9000 can be set up (see Figure 6-27). You have the possibility to adjust the clock manually, or to use a NTP timeserver.

  • Page 62: Event Log

    (see Figure 6-29). Each of those events belongs to an event group, which can be activated separately. The common way to log events is to use the internal log list of the KVM-9000. To show the log list, click on “Event Log” on the “Maintenance” page. In the Event Log Settings you can choose how many log entries are shown on each page.
  • Page 63 To receive this SNMP traps, any SNMP trap listener may be used. Warning In contrast to the internal log file on the KVM-9000, the size of the NFS log file is not limited. Every log event will be appended to the end of the file so it grows...

  • Page 64: Maintenance

    Maintenance 6.6.1 Device Information Figure 6-31. Device Information Device information This section contains a summary of various information regarding KVM-9000 and its current firmware. Connected Users This section lists all the active users who are logged in.

  • Page 65: Event Log

    6.6.2 Event Log Figure 6-32. Event Log List Figure 6-32 displays the log list including the events that are logged by the KVM-9000. 6.6.3 Update Firmware Figure 6-33. Update Firmware...
  • Page 66 Updating the firmware is a three-stage process: • Firstly, the new firmware file is uploaded onto the KVM-9000. In order to do that you need to select the file on your local system using the button “ Browse ” of the Upload Firmware panel.

  • Page 67: Unit Reset

    6.6.4 Unit Reset Figure 6-34. Unit Reset To reset a certain KVM-9000 functionality, click on the button “Reset” as displayed in Figure 6-34...

  • Page 68: Troubleshooting

    KVM-9000). If not, check network hardware. Is KVM-9000 powered on? Check whether the IP address of KVM-9000 and all other IP related settings are correct! Also verify that all the IP infrastructure of your LAN, like routers etc., is correctly configured. Without a ping functioning, KVM-9000 can’t work either.

  • Page 69: Certificates

    anymore A 011: Please check, if you have an option like ”‘Automatically move mouse pointer to the default button of dialog boxes”’ enabled in the mouse settings of the operating system. This option needs to be disabled. 8. Certificates This equipment has been tested and found to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference (2) This device must accept any interference received.

  • Page 70: Pin Assignments

    A. Pin Assignments A.1 VGA HD-15 A.2 RJ 45 Connector Ethernet...
  • Page 71 A.3 RJ 45 Connector ISDN A.4 Serial SUB-D 9 Connector 1 A.5 KVM 15 pin connector...

  • Page 72: Key Codes

    B. Key Codes Table C.1 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 73 PRINTSCREEN SCROLL LOCK BREAK INSERT HOME PAGE UP DELETE PAGE DOWN LEFT DOWN RIGHT NUM LOCK NUMPAD0 NUMPAD1 NUMPAD2 NUMPAD3 NUMPAD4 NUMPAD5 NUMPAD6 NUMPAD7 NUMPAD8 NUMPAD9 NUMPADPLUS,NUMPAD PLUS NUMPAD/ NUMPADMUL,NUMPAD MUL NUMPADMINUS,NUMPAD MINUS NUMPADENTER WINDOWS MENU Table B.1: Key Names...

  • Page 74: Video Modes

    C. Video Modes Table B.1 lists the video modes KVM-9000 supports. Please don’t use other custom video settings besides of these. If done so, KVM-9000 may not be able to detect them. Resolution (x, y) Refresh Rates (Hz) 640 x 350...

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