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1. Parameter Value IP auto configuration DHCP IP Address 192 168 1 22 Net mask 255 255 255 0 Default Gateway none IP access control disabled In case this initial configuration doesn t meet your requirements there is an initial IP configura tion necessary in order to access RAS PutlIn for the first time This chapter describes different possibilities to accomplish that 4 1 1 Initial configuration via DHCP server By default RAS PutIn 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 Before you connect the RAS PutIn to your local subnet be sure to complete the corresponding configuration of your DHCP server It is recommended to configure a fixed IP assignment to the MAC address of RAS PutIn You can find the MAC address of your RAS PutIn on the outside of the shipping box and labelled on RAS PutIn s bottom side If the DHCP connection fails on boot up RAS PutIn will boot with the last known IP configuration This is the pre configured IP address in case RAS PutIn is booting up for the very first time 4 1 2 Initial configuration via local console There are two ways for getting access to RAS PutIn s local console and carrying out the IP configuration there 1 Using a serial terminal RAS PutIn has a serial line interface at its rear side refer to Section 3 2 on page 10 The connector i
2. 5 5 1 6 Delete Group Select a group in the Existing group control Click the Delete group button 5 5 1 7 Modify Group To modify an existing group select the group in the Existing group control The group s name field can be modified Finally click the Modify group button 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 41 5 5 1 8 Copy Group Select a group in the Existing group control and type the name of the new group into the field New group name Click the Copy Group button This will create a new group and copy all properties and permissions of the selected group to the newly created group 5 5 2 User Group Permissions A set of permissions is assigned to each user or group Those rights are used to authorize access to certain RAS PutIn functionality for a particular user By default the user super has all permissions His permissions cannot be shrunk A newly created user or group has no permissions A user will inherit the permissions of all groups he belongs to Effective User Permission Inherited Permission Group Permission Event Log via IPMI group setting y Exclusive Access allow change he Firmware Update IPMI Settings ISDN Settings KVM Port Switch KVM Settings Figure 5 17 User Group Permissions panel The User Group Permissions panel as shown in Figure 5 17 allows you to change the permissions of a certain user or group The right of one user for changing another user s or
3. KBD 5V D 7 Power Supply Connector Pin Assignment 1 12V 2 12V 3 GND 4 GND 76 APPENDIX D PIN ASSIGNMENTS E Blackbox Warranty information LIMITED WARRANTY Blackbox manufactures its hardware products from parts and components that are new or equivalent to new in accordance with industry standard practices Blackbox warrants that the hardware products including the firmware will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use Any implied warranties on the Blackbox firmware and hardware are limited to 24 months respectively beginning on the date of invoice Some states jurisdictions do not allow limitations on duration of an implied warranty so the above limitation may not apply to you CUSTOMER REMEDIES Blackbox s entire liability and exclusive remedy shall be at Blackbox s option either a return of the price paid or b repair or replacement of the firmware or hardware that does not meet this Limited Warranty and which is returned to Blackbox with a copy of your receipt Damage due to shipping the products to you is covered under this warranty Otherwise warranty does not cover damage due to external causes including accident abuse misuse problems with electrical power servicing not authorized by Blackbox usage not in accordance with product instructions failure to perform required preventive maintenance and problems caused by use of parts and components not supplied by Blac
4. Keyboard VGA Mouse gt RAS Putin SUB D 25 Video Figure 3 6 Connections of RAS PutIn with local console 3 3 1 Connecting system management option Figure 3 7 gives an overview over the three different options to perform remote reset and remote power management to the controlled PC oaan o000 0000 KVM KVM IPMI IPMI KVM Extra Bracket in server IPMI V1 5 Interface To Reset and Power on off Pins on main External Power board or internal Switch box Adapter Kit Server Server Figure 3 7 Connecting RAS PutIn system management 3 3 2 Connecting IPMI option IPMI Version 1 5 defines a serial connection to access certain system parameters and to perform system actions like powering down the system or performing a hard reset Modern server systems supporting the IPMI V1 5 specification provide a modus where the externally available COM2 serial connection can be configured as system management port sometimes also referred to as emergency management port RAS PutIn may connect to this port in order to enable remote system management operations At http developer intel com design servers ipmi index htm You will find further information about IPMI 1 5 In order to use the IPMI over serial interface it has to be enabled in the host system This can be done using BIOS settings or special utilities provided by the server manufacturer
5. vides Three main system management options are offered IPMI Version 1 5 defines a serial connection to access certain system parameters and to perform system actions like powering down the system or performing a hard reset Modern server systems supporting the IPMI V1 5 specification provide a mode where the exter nally available COM2 serial connection can be configured as system management port sometimes also referred to as emer gency management port RAS PutIn may use this port in order to enable remote system management operations Internal Reset Power Option The internal Reset Power Option may be applied to remote systems where no IPMI Version 1 5 is available The provided bracket is mounted in a free PCI AGP slot Main board pins for reset and power on off have to be connected to the bracket With this option it is possible to perform a remote reset a remote power cycle and a remote power on off External Power Switch Option In case there is neither an IPMI V1 5 option available nor the chance to place a bracket in the remote system an external power switch box can switch the power on and off RAS Putin System Components RAS PutIn is a fully configured stand alone product consuming one quart of a 1U 19 rack mount chassis space Up to four RAS PutIn devices can be mounted in 1 U chassis using the 19 rack mount kit Item No 8400200 Each RAS PutIn Item No 8400000 is shipped with 1 RAS PutIn base unit 2 Utilit
6. lt ee e NETWORK SERVICES RAS Putin Installation and User Guide Based on Firmware 03 02 01 Copyright 2003 Blackbox Inc All rights reserved This publication contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright No part of this publication can be reproduced transcribed stored in a retrieval system translated into any language or computer language or transmitted in any form whatsoever without the prior written consent of the publisher Blackbox Inc Blackbox Inc acknowledges the following trademarks e Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation e Windows 98 Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corpo ration e IBM AT VGA PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks and XT and CGA are trade marks of International Business Machines Corporation e Blackbox is a registered trademark of Blackbox Inc Zwickau Germany Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products Blackbox Inc disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own Authors Blackbox Team This document was created on May 23 2003 The RAS PutIn ServSwitch RAS PutIn provides server management capabilities You can use RAS PutIn to manage and monitor components in your servers through a modem an ISDN line or LAN even if your network is down Modem ISDN RAS PutIn offers
7. you have to type the following into the address line of your browser for establishing an unsecured connection http 192 168 1 22 or in case you like to use a secure connection https 192 168 1 22 This leads you to the RAS PutIn login page as shown in Figure 5 2 on the facing page The RAS PutIn has a built in super user that has all permissions to administrate your RAS Putin Login name super Password rasputin 5 2 LOGIN INTO RAS PUTIN AND LOGOUT 21 NETWORK SERVICES ServSwitch RAS Putin Login Figure 5 2 RAS PutIn login screen Attention Please make sure to change the super user password immediately after you have installed and firstly accessed your RAS PutIn Not changing the super user password is a severe security risk and might result in unauthorized access to RAS PutIn and the host system with all possible consequences 5 2 2 Main Screen After a successful login RAS PutIn will present its main screen consisting of three frames see Figure 5 3 on the next page The upper left frame contains a home link that brings you instantly back to the home page after you stepped down to one of the administration menu points The logout link logs you out of RAS PutIn That means the current session will be terminated and you have to type username and password again to login Note The RAS PutIn will log you out automatically after there is no administration activity for half an h
8. Explorer on Win32 Systems e Mouse hotkey Allows to specify a hotkey combination which starts either the mouse synchronization process if pressed in the Remote Console see Section 5 3 3 on page 27 for more informa tion or is used to leave the exclusive mouse mode see below The key codes are listed in Appendix C on page 71 e Button Keys Button Keys are meant for simulating keystrokes on the remote system that cannot be generated locally The reason for this might be a missing key or the fact that the local operating system of the Remote Console is unconditionally catching this keystroke already Typical examples are Control Alt Delete on Windows and DOS what is always caught or Control Backspace on Linux for terminating the X Server The syntax to define a new Button Key is as follows confirm lt keycode gt x lt keycode gt x confirm requests confirmation by a dialog box before the key strokes will be sent keycode is the key to be sent Multiple key codes can be concatenated with a or a sign The sign builds key combinations all keys will be pressed until a sign or the end of the combination is encountered In this case all pressed keys will be released in reversed sequence So the sign builds single separate keypresses and releases The x inserts a pause with a user defineable duration see Section 5 4 3 on page 37 For a list of key codes and aliases RAS PutIn recognizes refer to Appendix C
9. F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10F11 F12 Prnt Scrl Brk 1 213 4 5 6 7 8S 9 0 Bsp Ins PoslPgup Num 7 tab q wje r t y ujijol pi l l Del End Pgdn 7 8 9 CR Caps a s di fgh k 1 ON 4 5 6 EShift z x c vj b nj m Rshift Up 112 3 CR Letrl Win Al Space AIOR Menu RCtrl Left Down Right 0 Figure C 1 English US Keyboard Layout used for key codes Table C 1 Key Names Key and aliases 0 9 A Z TILDE MINUS EQUALS 7 gt lt LESS SLASH BACK SPACE TAB ENTER CAPS LOCK BACK_SLASH LSHIFT SHIFT Continued on next page 72 APPENDIX C KEY CODES Table C 1 continued from previous page Key and aliases RCTRL RSHIFT LCTRL CTRL LALT ALT SPACE ALTGR ESCAPE ESC Fl F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PRINTSCREEN SCROLL_LOCK BREAK INSERT HOME PAGE_UP DELETE END PAGE_DOWN UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT M_LOCK MPADO MPAD1 MPAD2 MPAD3 MPAD4 MPAD5 MPAD6 MPAD7 MPAD8 MPAD9 MPADPLUS NUMPAD_PLUS MPAD MPADMUL NUMPAD_MUL MPADMINUS NUMPAD_MINUS UMPADENTER WINDOWS MENU e ET E Tes ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ D Pin Assignments D 1 VGA HD 15 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 Red 9 5 V 2 Green 10 GND sync 3 Blue 11 Not connected 4
10. Not connected 12 SDA DDC 5 GND 13 HSYNC 6 GND red 14 VSYNC 7 GND green 15 DATA_CLOCK 8 GND blue D 2 RJ 45 Connector Ethernet 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 TX 5 Not connected 2 TX 6 RX 3 RX 7 Not connected 4 Not connected 8 Not connected 74 APPENDIX D PIN ASSIGNMENTS D 3 RJ 45 Connector ISDN oN DW RF Md NY eB Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 Not connected 5 RX 2 Not connected 6 TX 3 TX 7 Not connected 4 RX 8 Not connected D 4 Serial SUB D 9 Connector 1 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 RX 7 RTS 3 TX 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 GND D 5 Serial SUB D 9 Connector 2 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 DCD 6 DSR Reset2 2 RX 7 RTS Powerl f 3 TX 3 DTS Power Pins 1 and 6 are bridged 4 DTR Reset1 9 Not connected 5 GND D 6 KVM SUB D 25 CONNECTOR D 6 KVM SUB D 25 Connector Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 VGA blue 14 GND 2 VGA green 15 GND 3 VGA red 16 GND 4 VGA hsync 17 VGA vsync 5 GND 18 Not connected 6 VGA SCL 19 VGA SCL 7 GND 20 GND 8 Not connected 21 GND 9 KBD data 22 KBD clock 10 GND 23 RS232 2 TX 11 MOUSE clock 24 RS232 2 RX 12 MOUSE data 25 MOUSE 5V 13
11. Refer to the server manufacturer s manual site to find out how the IPMI over serial line can be enabled and configured and where the IPMI serial port is placed 3 3 CONNECTING RAS PUTIN TO THE HOST SYSTEM 13 Hint IPMI V1 5 is only supported by modern server systems No server system manufactured before 2002 supports IPMI 1 5 By the date of printing this manual only the Intel SDS2 server main board has a proper support of IPMI Verson 1 5 Connect the IPMI option serial cable to the RS232 port 1 on the rear side of RAS PutIn and to the serial port of the controlled system 3 3 3 Connecting the Internal Reset Power Option Figure 3 8 shows the top view of the reset power bracket To Reset Pin on Mainboard To Reset Front Panel switch To Power on Pin on Mainboard To Power Front Panel switch Figure 3 8 Top view of internal reset power option Additional cables are required in order to enable the remote reset and the remote power function of RAS PutIn 1 Mount the reset power bracket in a free slot of the controlled system 2 Find the cable connecting the front panel reset button and the main board 3 Disconnect this cable from the main board and connect it to the pin connector on the bracket as shown in Figure 3 8 4 Take the supplied red black reset cable and connect the cable with one end to the main boards reset jumper connector where you just disconnected the cable to the front panel and w
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13. at this time Check interval This is the interval for reporting again to the Dynamic DNS server by RAS PutIn Note RAS PutIn has its own independent real time clock Make sure the time setting of RAS PutIn is correct This can be achieved by configuring a timeserver see Figure 5 18 on page 43 Note RAS PutIn registers itself to the Dynamic DNS server slightly different from the time configured To reduce load peaks on the server we add a random time 0 10 min to the absolute time value 5 5 4 SNMP Settings The following information is available via SNMP Serial number Firmware version MAC address IP address Netmask Gateway of LAN interface Configured users Currently active users with login time login time is only valid if time is synchronized on RAS PutIn Server s power state The following actions can be initiated via SNMP Reset server Power on off server Reset RAS PutIn The following events are reported by RAS PutIn via SNMP Login trial at RAS PutIn failed Login trial at RAS PutIn succeeded Denying access to a particular action Server was reset Server was powered on off 46 CHAPTER 5 USAGE The SNMP settings panel as shown in Figure 5 21 described below allows you to change SNMP related parameters Ml Enable SNMP Agent Lead Community entication Traps f Enable Host Traps IP address Community Figure 5 21 SNMP settings e Enable SNMP Agent If
14. baw Rh G ERE e eee 79 G Operation advices 81 Contents List LI 1 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 dl 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 Dd 5 2 5 3 5 4 5 9 5 6 5 7 5 8 5 9 5 10 5 11 5 12 5 13 5 14 5 15 5 16 517 5 18 5 19 5 20 5 21 5 22 5 23 5 24 5 25 of Figures Front Side Connectors ss vk aupa we Pe a AA e ee Bd ce a 1 Rear Side Connectors 22s 44 saa a aaa eA Ree N a N A 2 Top part of the Remote Console 0 020 eee ee eee 4 RAS Puti total View sok Aa eA Re ee Ghee eee bee ees 5 Internal Reset Power Option PC bracket 7 RAS Putin usage scemame s o oe luso eh ee PE a dee ee A 9 Multiple users on multiple servers 2 0 ee ee 9 RAS PutIn Front Side Connectors e 10 Rear Side Connectors sa sso aca RRR RRR RRR kappaa 10 Connections of RAS PutIn KVM signals to the controlled system 11 Connections of RAS PutIn with local console o o 12 Connecting RAS PutIn system management o 12 Top view of internal reset power option o o e 13 Internet Explorer showing the encryption key length 20 RAS PutIn login screen e 21 RAS PutIn home menu window 22 Remote Console window showing a Windows 2000 desktop screen 23 Example for the Chat window 2 20205 ee eee eee 26 Video Settings in HTML ponteng usas ce ek a R a BO 29 Video Settings Panel s i ccs roe con Ae RS ee ee EO 30 Custom Video Modes ce sasaa 045 F 8 d
15. cable has an aggregated SUB D 25 connector to RAS PutIn Power supply A power supply with the following parameters can be attached e Voltage 12 V e Current gt 1 A RJ 45 ISDN Using this connector RAS PutIn can be connected to an EURO ISDN network RJ 45 Ethernet UTP3 5 cables can be connected to RAS PutIn using this standard RJ 45 Jack 3 3 Connecting RAS Putin to the host system In order to connect the KVM signals of the host system to RAS PutIn perform the following steps 1 Connect the SUB D 25 to PS2 PS2 Video cable to the SUB D 25 connector on RAS PutIn 2 Connect the purple PS 2 Keyboard jack to the keyboard connector of the host system 3 Connect the green PS 2 mouse plug to the mouse connector of the host system 4 Connect the VGA HD 15 connector to the VGA monitor output of the host system 5 Connect the power supply as well as Ethernet and or modem ISDN depending how you want to access RAS PutIn In case you want to connect a local console to the host system besides RAS PutIn you may attach monitor keyboard and mouse to the connectors on the front side Figure 3 5 shows the resulting connections from RAS PutIn to the host system whereas Figure 3 6 on the next page shows the same connections including the local console ones Keyboard ZA VGA Mouse SUB D 25 0000 RAS Putin Figure 3 5 Connections of RAS PutIn KVM signals to the controlled system 12 CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION
16. certificate e g revocation of the certificate The minimal length of this password is 4 characters Confirm Challenge Password Confirmation of the Challenge Password Email The email address of a security contact person that is responsible for RAS PutIn Key length This is the length of the generated key in bits 1024 Bits are supposed be sufficient for most cases Larger keys may result in slower response time of RAS PutIn during connection establishment However it is possible to generate and install a new certificate that is unique for a particular card In order to do that RAS PutIn is able to generate a new cryptographic key and the asso ciated so called Certificate Signing Request that needs to be certified by a so called certification authority CA A certification authority verifies that you are who you claim you are and signs and issues a SSL certificate to you The following steps are necessary to create and install a RAS PutIn SSL certificate 1 Create a SSL Certificate Signing Request using the panel shown in Figure 5 30 Security Settings SSL Settings gt Create your own SSL certificate You need to fill out a number of fields that are explained above Once this is done click Create CSR which will initiate the Certificate Signing Request generation The CSR can be downloaded to your administration machine with the Download CSR button see Figure 5 31 on the facing page Send the saved CSR to
17. e Run special diagnostic programs 8 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION 2 2 When the server is dead Obviously fixing hardware defects is not possible using a remote management device Never theless RAS PutIn gives the administrator valuable information about the type of a hardware failure Serious hardware failures can be categorized into five different categories with different chances to happen 1 Hard disk failure 50 2 Power cable detached power supply failure 28 3 CPU Controller main board failure 10 4 CPU fan failure 8 5 RAM failure 4 Using RAS PutIn administrators can determine which kind of serious hardware failure has occurred see Table 2 1 Table 2 1 Host system failures and how they are detected Type of failure Detected by Hard disk failure Console screen CMOS set up information Power cable detached power Server remains in power off state after power on command supply failure has been given CPU Controller main board Power supply is on but there is no video output failure CPU fan failure By IPMI or server specific management software RAM failure Boot Sequence on boot console According to a survey made by the Intel Corp 3 Installation 3 1 Operation Overview Figure 3 1 shows the connections of RAS PutIn to its host to peripheral devices to the power source and to the local area network RAS Putin re HA KVM signals oooo
18. ee Hl A IP Network Server Admin 110 220V power i Figure 3 1 RAS PutIn usage scenario RAS PutIn redirects local keyboard mouse and video data to a remote administration console All data is transmitted via IP RAS PutIn can be used in a multi administrator and multi server environment as well Com bining one or several RAS PutIns with a KVM switched matrix allows to access multiple servers on a single remote console RAS PutIn is multi user capable i e up to 64 concurrent users may use RAS PutIn to admin istrate a remote site Figure 3 2 shows a configuration with concurrent users on a number of servers connected by a KVM switching matrix using one or more RAS PutIns Using more than one RAS PutIn in a configuration as shown in Figure 3 2 prevents blocking administrators who use the switching matrix R a PEZ Admin re acd IP Network ae Scalable number of RAS Putln KVM Matrix Switch Admin boxes Figure 3 2 Multiple users on multiple servers 10 CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION 3 2 Connectors and Jumpers 3 2 1 Front Side Connectors Figure 3 3 shows the connectors on RAS PutIn s front side tte a a K local ba s mouse LAY SS ae X CLS lt L gt F E A J local K 4 keyboard Oo 666 reas T A o NY local video interface Figure 3 3 RAS PutIn Front Side Connectors RST Pushing this button performs a reset of RAS Put
19. feature to correct a flickering video Login on RAS PutIn fails Was the correct combination of user and password given On delivery the user super has the password rasputin Moreover your browser must be configured to accept cookies The Remote Console window can t connect to RAS PutIn Possibly a firewall prevents access to the Remote Console Make sure the TCP port numbers 443 or 80 are open for incoming TCP connection establishments No connection can be established to RAS PutIn Check whether the network connection is working in general ping the IP address of RAS PutIn If not check network hardware Is RAS PutIn powered on Check whether the IP address of RAS PutIn and all other IP related settings are correct Also verify that all the IP infrastructure of your LAN like routers etc are correctly configured Without a ping functioning RAS PutIn can t work either Special key combinations e g ALT F2 ALT F3 are intercepted by the console system and not transmitted to the host You have to define a so called Button Key This can be done in the Remote Console settings In the browser the RAS PutIn pages are inconsistent or chaotic Make sure your browser cache settings are feasible Especially make sure the cache settings are not set to something like never check for newer pages Otherwise RAS PutIn pages may be loaded from your browser cache and not from the card Windows XP doesn t awake from standby m
20. group s access rights is determined by the parent child relationship between them When one user is creating another user he will implicitly become the parent of that new user and hence has the right to change his permissions More general a certain user has the right to change another user s or group s permissions in case he stands higher in the ancestry than the other one The super user stands at the top or the root of the ancestry hence has the right to change everybody s permissions Additionally there is the restriction that a user can never give more permission to others than those he has For example if a user has no permission to change the network settings he won t be able to grant this right to somebody else However a user has always the right to reduce the set of permissions of his descendants In order to change the permissions of a user group you have to select the user group first This is done using the selection list at the top of the User Group Permissions panel see Figure 5 17 on the preceding page The selection list will show only users and groups for which you have the right to change their permissions Next clicking the Update button will show the permission list of that user Every right in the list has a permission value which is explained in Table 5 3 The displayed columns differ depending on the user group selected and the one logged in Effective Permission The final permission which de
21. in losing connection to it In case you change the settings remotely make sure all the values are correct and you still have an option to access the RAS PutIn e IP auto configuration With this option you can control if RAS PutIn should fetch it s network settings from a DHCP or BOOTP server For DHCP you have to enter dhcp and for BOOTP supply bootp accordingly If you specify none then IP autoconfiguration is disabled e IP auto configuration timeout Time within a DHCP BOOTP server is expected to respond to the RAS PutIn DHCP BOOTP client request If there is no response the last known IP settings will be used to configure RAS PutIn e IP address IP address in the usual dot notation e Subnet mask The net mask of the local network e Gateway IP address In case the RAS PutIn should be accessible from networks other than the local one this IP address must be set to the local network router s IP address 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 43 192 168 1 67 255 255 255 0 Fe pF I 7 TELNET port MN De 7 Bandwidth Limit Figure 5 18 RAS PutIn network settings Primary DNS Server IP address IP address of the primary Domain Name Server in dot notation This option may be left empty however RAS PutIn won t be able to perform name resolution Secondary DNS Server IP address IP address of the secondary Domain Name Server in dot notation It will be used in case the Primary DNS Server can t be contacted Prim
22. on host use an additional acceleration setting RAS PutIn tries to detect the acceleration and speed of the mouse during the mouse sync process e Reset mouse keyboard emulation This option will reset the RAS PutIn keyboard and mouse emulation for the host system Use it if the keyboard or mouse seems to react irrationally Its just like pulling out the keyboard and mouse connectors and plugging them in again 5 4 3 KVM Settings The RAS PutIn KVM settings Figure 5 15 on the following page allow to control a KVM switch located between RAS PutIn and the hosts Have a look at Section 3 1 on page 9 for a connection example It is possible to select the number of ports the connected KVM uses Each port may get a name assigned In order to provide KVM port switching through RAS PutIn key combinations have to be defined for the ports The syntax to define a new Hotkey is as follows lt keycode gt lt keycode gt x For example Ctrl Ctrl A Enter or Ctrl A 1 Enter Thereby keycode is the key to be sent Multiple key codes can be concatenated with a or a sign The sign builds key combinations all keys will be pressed until a sign or the end of the combination is encountered In this case all pressed keys will be released in reversed sequence So the sign builds single separate keypresses and releases The inserts a pause of user defineable length more than one signs may be concatenated The duration of
23. on page 71 Pressing the Apply button finally changes the values permanently in RAS PutIn 5 3 6 Telnet Console This options offers a Java applet for the Telnet protocol 5 10 to open a connection to RAS Putin Its main use is the passthrough option for the serial port 1 see also 5 5 5 The Telnet access has to be enabled in the security settings as well see 5 5 10 Of course it is also possible to connect with a standard Telnet client For details regarding the Telnet interface please refer to 5 6 5 4 Server 5 4 1 Power Control The appearance of the power control options depends on the power control option connected to RAS PutIn and on the currently activated setting see Section 5 5 5 on page 47 for an explanation There are three options available e power control disabled e internal power option e external power option 34 CHAPTER 5 USAGE super y confirm Ctrl Alt Delete Figure 5 10 Telnet Console Internal power option For connecting the internal power option please refer to Section 3 3 3 on page 13 Once connected it has to be enabled using the serial settings see Section 5 5 5 on page 47 The Power Control panel enables access to the most important external buttons of your host system besides of the keyboard These buttons are the reset and the ATX power button The power button is the representation of the ATX power button on your host system It is used to switch on and off the power supply Th
24. on your particular JVM and your browser machine settings this is not always possible A typical example is a German localized system that uses an US English key board mapping In this case you have to change the Local Keyboard setting manually to 26 CHAPTER 5 USAGE the right language Options Video Settings Opens a panel for changing the RAS PutIn video settings Have a look at Section 5 3 4 on page 28 for a detailed description of the available options Options Mouse handling The submenu for mouse handling offers two options for synchronizing the local and the remote mouse pointer explained in Section 5 3 3 on the next page The option for Fast Sync shows the hotkey in parentheses in case you defined one using the Remote Console Settings It is also possible to activate the Exclusive Mouse Mode see Section 5 3 5 on page 31 for an explanation Options Local cursor Offers a list of different cursor shapes to choose from for the local mouse pointer The selected shape will be saved for the current user and activated again next time this user opens the Remote Console The number of available shapes depends on the Java Virtual Machine only a version of 1 2 or higher offers the full list The Remote Console title bar shows some information about the incoming In and outgoing network traffic Out If you are using the compressed encoding compressed and uncompressed incoming traffic will be
25. ones are the following Auto Adjust button Ez If the video displayed is of bad quality or distorted in some way press this button and wait a few seconds while RAS PutIn tries to adjust itself for the best possible video quality Syne Sync Mouse Y Y 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 Video Settings in Options Menu This opens a new window with elements to control the RAS Putin Video Settings You can change some values for instance related to brightness and contrast of the picture displayed which may improve the video quality It is also possible to revert to the default settings for all video modes or only the current one 2 Introduction Features RAS PutIn defines a new class of remote KVM access devices see Figure 2 1 RAS PutIn combines digital remote KVM access via IP networks with comprehensive and integrated system management RAS PutIn offers convenient remote KVM access and control via LAN Internet or ISDN It captures digitizes and compresses video and transmits it with keyboard and mouse signals to and from a remote computer RAS PutIn provides a non intrusive solution for remote access and control Remote access and control software runs on the RAS PutIn embedded processors only but not on mission critical servers
26. speed When set to best quality the picture looks clean but the video update speed won t be as fast as possible If responsivness is more important to you than achieving the best quality set the option to high speed In this mode artifacts will apear An intermediate setting is also available Please note that the difference is only clearly visible when using fast network links and the normal compression for the Remote Console 5 3 4 2 Video Settings through the remote console RAS PutlIn features a panel to setup the following video options see Figure 5 7 on the following page available in the Remote Console Options menu Brightness Controls the brightness of the picture Black level Defines what intensity of color is still recognized as black 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 If the picture quality is still bad after auto adjustment you may try to change this setting together with the sampling phase to achieve a better quality 30 CHAPTER 5 USAGE x Brightness 4 T gt 140 Contrast Red 4 J gt 155 Contrast Green Ki b gt 155 Contrast Blue Ki b gt 155 Black Level gt 8 Clock al ii gt 1376 Phase 4 E A 27 Horizontal Off
27. subsections In case the remote mouse doesn t work properly at least one of the following settings is probably not correct 4 1 3 1 RAS PutIn mouse settings The RAS PutIn settings for the host s mouse type and the host s keyboard type must be correct in order to make remote keyboard and mouse work properly Check the settings in the RAS PutIn front end See Section 5 4 2 on page 36 for details 4 1 3 2 Host system mouse settings The host s operating system also knows various settings for the mouse driver While RAS PutIn works with accelerated mice and is able to synchronize the local with the remote mouse pointer see Section 5 3 3 on page 27 there are the following limitations which may prevent this synchronization from working properly Special Mouse Driver There are mouse drivers which influence the synchronization pro cess leading to desynchronized mouse pointers If this happens make sure you don t use a special vendor specific mouse driver on your host system Windows XP Mouse Setting Windows XP knows a setting to improve mouse acceleration which has to be deactivated You can check the correct setting by moving the mouse of your administration system to the upper left corner of the Remote Console and moving it there slightly forth and back This will force a mouse synchronization in that corner of the screen Once that is done you may observe the behaviour of your remote mouse in accordance to the local one If both mice de
28. the Sun JVM may also be forced see below Sun Microsystems Java Browser Plugin Instructs the Web browser of your administration system to use the JVM Java Virtual Machine of Sun Microsystems The JVM in the browser is used to run the code for the Remote Console window which is actually a Java Applet If you check this box for the first time on your administration system and the appropriate Java plug in is not already installed on your system it will be downloaded and installed automatically However in order to make the installation possible you still need to answer the according dialogs with YES The download volume is around 11 Mbytes The advantage of downloading Sun s JVM lays in providing a stable and identical Java Virtual Machine across different platforms The Remote Console software is optimized for this JVM versions and offers wider range of functionality when run in SUN s JVM Hint If you are connected over a slow connection to the Internet you can also pre install the JVM on your administration machine The software is available on the CD that is delivered along with RAS PutIn ActiveX control This option instructs the Web browser to use the ActiveX Control of the KVM Vision 5 4 SERVER 33 Viewer an application available separately You have to install this program on your local system please refer to the manual of the KVM vision viewer for further information This option only works with Microsoft Internet
29. this computer to 192 168 1 1 and use the web interface with the initial IP configuration Web interface RAS PutIn may be accessed using a standard Web browser You may use the HTTP protocol or a secure encrypted connection via HTTPS Just enter the configured IP address of RAS PutIn 4 CHAPTER 1 THE QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE into your Web browser Initially there is only one user configured who has unrestricted access to all RAS PutIn features Login name super Password rasputin Please login and change the password immediately according to your own policies The Remote Console The Remote Console is the redirected screen keyboard and mouse of the remote host system to which RAS PutIn is attached The Web browser which is used for accessing RAS PutIn has to supply a Java Runtime Environment version 1 1 or higher The Remote Console will behave exactly the same way as if you were sitting directly in front of the screen of your remote system That means keyboard and mouse can be used in the usual way Open the console by choosing the appropriate link in the navigation frame of the HTML frontend Figure 1 3 shows the top of the Remote Console a 192 168 1 67 ServSwitch RAS PutIn Remote Console In 5 KB s Out 122 B s PIS E Ctri Alt Delete 16 22 Console Norm Desktop size is 800 x 600 I Sync AN Options a Figure 1 3 Top part of the Remote Console There are some options to choose from the important
30. 0 supports a key length of 56 Bit only You can read about the key length of your Internet Explorer under the menu points and Info The dialog box SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol 2MIB Management Information Base 20 CHAPTER 5 USAGE shows also a hyperlink that leads you to information on how to upgrade your browser to a state of the art encryption scheme Figure 5 1 shows the dialog presented by Internet Explorer 6 0 However the US export regulations have been declared obsolete recently Therefore new browser versions do support strong encryption We recommend the following browser for a secured connection to RAS PutIn e Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 5 or higher on Windows 98 Windows ME and Windows 2000 and Windows XP e Netscape Navigator 7 0 or Mozilla 1 0 on Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux and other UNIX like Operating Systems x ie E Mi fte Eat Explorer Version 6 0 2600 0000 Cipher Strength 128 bit Product 1D 55736 260 8996737 04304 Versions 0 Update Figure 5 1 Internet Explorer showing the encryption key length 5 2 Login into RAS Putin and logout 5 2 1 Login into RAS Putin Start your Web browser and direct it to the address of your RAS PutIn that has been configured during installation The address used might be a plain IP address or a host and domain name in case you have given your RAS PutIn a symbolic name in the DNS For instance
31. 1 Show Remote Console The Remote Console is the redirected screen keyboard and mouse of the remote host system RAS PutIn controls Starting the Remote Console causes an additional window popping up that contains a copy of the screen of your host system see Figure 5 4 on the next page The Remote Console will behave exactly in the same way as if you were sitting directly in front of the screen of your remote system That means keyboard and mouse can be used in the usual way However 5 3 REMOTE CONSOLE 23 Table 5 1 Meaning of the main menu RAS PutIn features Feature Description Server Power Status Shows whether the host system is switched on or off Firmware Version Version number of the firmware installed on your RAS PutIn Device Management Shows if RAS PutIn is entirely self managed or if its con nected to a management device Users Shows all currently logged in users with their identity and the IP address from where they are logged in note in case a user connected his Web browser over a proxy server the IP address field will show the IP address of the proxy server and not that of the user machine itself RC means that the user has opened the Remote Console Exclusive is a sign that the Remote Console is opened in exclusive mode Idle is the time since last access during the current session be aware of the fact that the remote system will react to keyboard and mouse actions with a slight dela
32. CP or BOOTP server For DHCP you have to enter dhcp and for BOOTP supply bootp accordingly If you specify none then IP autoconfiguration is disabled and you will subsequently be asked for the following network settings IP address The IP address the RAS PutIn should use This option is only available if IP autoconfig uration is disabled Subnet mask The mask of the connected IP subnet This option is only available if IP autoconfiguration is disabled Gateway address The IP address of the default router of the connected IP subnet If you have no default router you may enter 0 0 0 0 This option is only available if IP autoconfiguration is disabled Enable IP Access Control The last question Enable IP Access Control allows you to switch IP packet filtering on or off It is mainly intended to re enable access to RAS PutIn after a faulty IP access control configuration has been activated Refer to Section 5 5 10 3 on page 58 for more information about IP access control There may be default values which are enclosed in brackets If you want to use the default value of an option then you just need to press the Enter key You will be asked if the values are correct and get a chance to correct them After confirming RAS PutIn performs a reset 4 1 INITIAL CONFIGURATION 17 4 1 3 Mouse Keyboard and Video configuration The correct operation of the remote mouse depends on two settings which will be discussed in the following
33. IPMI rather than the ATX and the reset cable connected from RAS PutIn to the motherboard e BMC address The hexadecimal Baseboard Management Controller address which is needed for all com munication types to the IPMI interface Usually you can find this address in the BIOS of the host system The default and common value for this address is 20 e IPMI over IPMB This connection type uses an IPMB cable connected from the 1x5pin IPMB connector on the RAS PutIn card to the 3 4pin IPMB I2C connector on the motherboard IPMI over 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 53 IPMI disabled Figure 5 25 IPMI settings panel IPMB doesn t need any passwords This access mode allows only power on off and reset function Status and Event Log via IPMI are disabled e IPMI over Serial If your host system supports IPMI V1 5 and has an Intel EMP Emergency Management Port usually COM2 connector you can connect IPMI through serial port 1 on RAS PutIn There are some additional points to note The EMP port must be set to Always enable and the Restricted Mode must be switched off The BMC should accept a null username and a non null password account as login Passwords are 4 16 characters long A null modem cable is used for connection e IPMI over LAN You can connect the IPMI over a LAN connection too The prerequisite for this access type is a host system with IPMI V1 5 and a network adapter with a sideband connection to the BMC m
34. In One has to use this button for the initial configuration of RAS PutIn VGA Indicates that the VGA input is active and a video signal is received by RAS PutIn RUN Indicates whether the RAS PutIn system is running or not 100 Indicates that the Ethernet connection is in 100 Mbit mode FULL Indicates that the Ethernet connection is in full duplex mode ISDN Indicates that the ISDN subsystem is available and active EMEA version only GRAB Indicates that a remote user is logged onto RAS PutIn and the video engine is outputting data In case you want to connect a local console to the host system besides RAS PutIn you can attach monitor keyboard and mouse to the according RAS PutIn connectors on its front 3 2 2 Rear Side Connectors Figure 3 4 shows the connectors on RAS PutIn s rear side L n a 66666 66666 6666 e pS y x y Serial 1 Serial 2 ISDN o ecoococooooooo 600000000000 O Keyboard Video Mouse j Power Ethernet Figure 3 4 Rear Side Connectors SUB D 9 Serial 1 The standard serial connector is used in multiple ways 3 3 CONNECTING RAS PUTIN TO THE HOST SYSTEM 11 e IPMI Version 1 5 connection to the remote system using the IPMI Op tion cable e Serial output for modem dial in connection e Serial pass through via Telnet e Initial configuration SUB D 9 Serial 2 The serial connector 2 supports the internal and external power options SUB D 25 KVM The supplied Keyboard VGA Mouse extender
35. P Address 1 ServSwitch RAS PutIn Board MAC Address Firmware Version Firmware Build Number Firmware Description Board Temperature Hardware Revision Reset ServSwitch RAS Putln Figure 5 34 Maintenance 5 6 Access via Telnet The RAS PutIn firmware features a Telnet server that enables a user to connect via a standard Telnet client It is used for passthrough access to a device possibly connected to the serial port 5 6 ACCESS VIA TELNET 63 1 This means you may connect any serial device which offers terminal access via its serial port to RAS PutIn and access it using the Telnet interface Set the serial settings see Section 5 5 5 on page 47 according to the requirements of the device Connecting to RAS PutIn is done as usual and as required by the Telnet client for instance in a UNIX shell telnet 192 168 1 22 This will prompt for username and password in order to log into the card The credentials that need to be entered for authentication are identical to those of the Web interface That means the user management of the Telnet interface is entirely controlled with the according functions of the Web interface Once you have successfully logged in RAS PutIn will present you the command line where you can enter according management commands In general the Telnet interface supports two operation modes the command line mode and the terminal mode The command line mode is used to control or display some parameter
36. PutIn 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 The administrator has to register a RAS PutIn that is supposed to take part in the service with the Dynamic DNS Server He will get an approved nickname and password in return to the registration process This account information is needed in order to determine the IP address of the registered RAS PutIn Ml Enable Dynamic DNS Figure 5 20 Dynamic DNS configuration panel You have to perform the following steps in order to enable Dynamic DNS 1 Make sure the LAN interface of RAS PutIn is properly configured 2 Enter the Dynamic DNS Settings configuration dialog as shown in Figure 5 20 on the next page Menu Network Settings Dynamic DNS Settings 3 Enable Dynamic DNS and change the settings according to your needs see below e Enable Dynamic DNS This enables the Dynamic DNS service This requires a configured DNS server IP address e Dynamic DNS server Here you enter the server name where RAS PutIn registers itself in regular intervals If 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 45 left blank the default will be used Nickname You have registered this nickname during your manual registration with the Dynamic DNS Server Spaces are not allowed in the Nickname Check time RAS PutIn card registers itself in the Dynamic DNS server
37. User search subfilter Figure 5 28 LDAP settings panel e User LDAP Server Here you enter the name or IP address of the LDAP server containing all the user entries If you choose a name instead of an IP address you need to configure a DNS server in the network settings e Base DN of User LDAP Server Here you specify the distinguished name DN where the directory tree starts in the user LDAP server e Type of external LDAP Server With this option you set the type of the external LDAP server This is necessary since some server types require special handling Additionally the default values for the LDAP schema are set appropriately You can choose between Generic LDAP Server Novell Directory Service and Microsoft Active Directory If you have neither Novell Directory Service nor Microsoft Active Directory then choose Generic LDAP Server and edit the LDAP schema used see below e Name of login name attribute This is the name of the attribute containing the unique login name of a user To use the default leave this field empty The default depends on the selected LDAP server type 56 CHAPTER 5 USAGE e Name of user entry objectclass This is the objectclass that identifies a user in the LDAP directory To use the default leave this field empty The default depends on the selected LDAP server type e User search subfilter Here you can refine the search for users that should be known to the RAS PutIn e Active Directory Domain Thi
38. 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 RAS PutIn using the Upload panel as shown in Figure 5 31 on the next page After completing these three steps RAS PutIn has its own certificate that is used for identifying the card to its clients 60 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Common name zational unit Organization Confirm Challeng a Ce aa es EE Key length bits Create CSR Figure 5 30 SSL Certificate Request Important Note If you destroy the CSR on RAS PutIn there is no way to get it back In case you deleted it by mistake you have to repeat the three steps 5 5 12 Maintenance RAS Putin Board Summary This section contains a summary with various information about this RAS PutIn and its current firmware and allows you to reset RAS PutIn Have a look at Figure 5 34 on page 63 for an example Data file for support This link allows you to download the RAS PutIn data file with support information This is an XML file with certain customized support information like the serial number etc You may send this information along together with a support request It will help us troubleshooting your problem Reset RAS PutIn This part allows you to reset RAS PutIn This function is mainly needed to activate a newly updated firmware A reset will close all current conne
39. a callback entry in case this checkbox is checked Additionally the delay after which the callback connection will be established can be configured Callback entries are only effective when the callback mechanism is enabled Ml Enable ISDN protocol Ml Enable hangup timer for incoming calls Hangup timeout ln seconds IP addre ge fi92 168 41 Misz16843 M Enable callback M Force callback Calling Called User Password callback only callback only callback only f call back after seconds Figure 5 24 RAS PutIn ISDN settings panel In the following we will present some example use cases for a proper ISDN configuration 5 5 7 1 want to allow non callback dial in for everyone To achieve this you have to switch off the Force callback option and you should have no callback entries configured 5 5 7 2 want to allow non callback dial in for selected people First make sure Force callback is switched off Second you have to make an entry with the calling number for every allowed client The other fields should be left empty There must be at least one non callback entry or anyone can dial in 52 CHAPTER 5 USAGE 5 5 7 3 want to allow non callback dial in for everyone except some people that should be called back Make sure you have callback enabled and Force callback is switched off Now configure an entry for every number that should be called back Don t forget to mark the entries as callba
40. a single pause 38 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Active Port Ii lt I Number of Ports Ja y Name Hotkey Show in Console seve a A SERR es A Figure 5 15 KVM Settings is set in milli seconds using the appropriate option on the KVM settings page See Appendix C on page 71 for a list of key codes that can be used as hotkeys Note The settings will be saved only after pressing Apply If the settings are correct the KVM port can be switched using the option Active port on top of this page or with the KVM switching matrix on the RAS PutIn homepage see Section 5 2 2 on page 21 RAS PutIn uses separate mouse synchronization settings see section 5 3 3 on page 27 and video settings see Section 5 3 4 on page 28 for each port Note It is still possible to apply KVM key combinations through the Remote Console for switch ing KVM port however in this case video and mouse synchronization settings will be shared among the ports and may unintentionally be changed for one of those ports External Power Switch Option If an external power option is enabled it is additionally possible to assign a port of this control for power switching to each KVM port see Section 5 4 1 on page 36 5 5 Administration 5 5 1 User Group Management The user and group management of RAS PutIn is based on configurable users and groups Each user or group may have different permissions Upon delivery e
41. aa a a eee 31 Example of Remote Console settings 34 Telnet Console oc eo ne ge eae eRe A aaa 34 Internal Power Control se co e ngea oeaiei ee Reed dade ceed 35 External Power Control so se 6 42545 oew maa mud sd e 36 Power Control via IPMI s soes rr oa a GE a a 36 Keyboard Mouse setings ooro pa bis tor a E Ee RA Oe ew a 37 RYM SEINES AR a ROS ee PO Bee AA A 38 User Group Management occiso a wees 39 User Group Permissions panel e555 4 462 wae a eR EGE ES 41 RAS PutIn network settings o s soere euw mo 43 Dynamie DNS Scenari si ong as sgoe woe pahe g aoa ci A e ee 44 Dynamic DNS configuration panel aoaaa e e 45 SNMP IE A 46 Merial SEUS e Oe R R a ana 48 Internal Power Option Settings o 020000022 eee 49 RAS PutIn ISDN settings panel o e e e 51 IPMI sethines patel socias iaa a ee A A a e A a 53 List of Figures 5 26 5 27 5 28 929 5 30 5 31 5 32 5 33 5 34 C 1 IPMI Event Log 2 54 88 4 45 25 64 Y seed oe a a 54 Example of IPMI State panel 02 RR ee a 55 LDAP settings panel 2 2 ee 55 Securty SEDAS lo 9 K a ee ee et He ek OO eee ee Ee de da 57 Dole Cenimcate REGUE osas Bok ae ed a a ee ee a 60 SSL Certificate Signing Request o 2 61 Panel for uploading a new fir MWare e 62 Panel to update a new firmware that was previously uploaded 62 Mamibenance 2 8 2 24 si
42. ach RAS PutIn is pre configured with a supervisor user called super having the password rasputin Make sure to change the super user password immediately after you have installed and firstly accessed your RAS PutIn 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 39 Figure 5 16 shows the User Group Management panel of the RAS PutIn front end Its use will be described in the following text Not Member of NIS mber Member of supergroup Group membership Modify User Copy User Existing groups Figure 5 16 User Group Management e Existing user Select an existing user for modification or deletion Once a user has been selected click the lookup button to see the complete user information e New user name In order to create a new user enter a new login name in this field The new name must not yet exist as user or group In case it does an error message will be displayed on top of the panel e Full user name This name is the full name belonging to the login name e Password The password for the login name It must be at least four characters long e Confirm password Confirmation of the password above e Email address This is optional e Mobile number This information may be optionally provided e Group membership Each user can be a member of one or more groups Existing groups 40 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Selects an existing group for copying modification or deletion e New group name In order to create a new group enter a n
43. age 31 for defining new button keys e State line Shows console and connection state Normally it displays the size of the remote screen in pixels The value in round brackets describes the connection to the remote system Norm stands for a standard connection without encryption SSL stands for a secured connection In case there is a connection error it will be displayed in this line as well You can double click the state line in order to see a history of all the state messages e Auto adjust Starts the auto adjustment procedure to determine the settings for best visual quality of the grabbed image This may take a few moments During the process the display is turned off and you will see a notification message e Sync mouse S Sync Activates the mouse synchronization process Have a look at Section 5 3 3 on page 27 for further information about this topic s Single Double mouse mode b Switches between the Single Mouse Mode where only the remote mouse pointer is visible 5 3 REMOTE CONSOLE 25 and the Double Mouse Mode where remote and local mouse pointers are visible and need to be synchronized Single mouse mode is only available if using SUN JVM 1 3 or higher Monitor Mode E Toggles the read only mode on and off In case the Monitor Mode check box is checked the Remote Console won t accept any local input neither keyboard nor mouse The symbol shows if the monitor mode is currently active or not O
44. ary Time Server IP address of the primary NTP Network Time Protocol compliant timeserver in dot notation RAS PutIn will synchronize its own absolute time with the timeserver s one This is important for writing log entries and for the Dynamic DNS Service Secondary Time Server IP address of the secondary NTP compliant timeserver in dot notation It will be used in case the Primary Time Server can t be contacted Remote Console amp HTTPS port Port number at which RAS PutIn s Remote Console server and HTTPS server are listen ing If left empty the default value will be used HTTP port Port number at which RAS PutIn s HTTP server is listening If left empty the default value will be used Telnet port Port number at which RAS PutIn s Telnet server is listening If left empty the default value will be used Bandwidth limitation The maximum network traffic generated through the RAS PutIn ethernet device Unit is Kbit s Disable Peppercon EMX Support With this option you may exclude this RAS PutIn from management by a Peppercon EMX 44 CHAPTER 5 USAGE 5 5 3 1 Dynamic DNS Blackbox provides a Dynamic DNS service that can be used in the following scenario see Figure 5 19 Dynamic IP Figure 5 19 Dynamic DNS Scenario RAS PutIn is reachable via the IP address of the DSL router which is dynamically assigned by the provider Since the administrator doesn t know the IP address assigned by the provider RAS
45. cides if a user may access a specific RAS PutIn function or not 42 CHAPTER 5 USAGE User Permission Permission for the currently selected user group If the user se lected equals to the one logged in it is only possible to view the value otherwise a select box appears to change it Inherited Group Permission Permission value inherited from the groups a user belongs to This column is not available while a group is selected Table 5 3 RAS PutIn user and group permissions Field Description deny access The user cannot use this function allow view The user can view the entry deny change The user cannot change the entry s settings allow change The user can change the entry settings allow access The user can use this function group setting No permission use the one inherited from the group s the user belongs to Default is to deny access 5 5 3 Network Settings The Network Settings panel as shown in Figure 5 18 on the facing page allows changing network related parameters Each parameter will be explained below Once applied the new network settings will immediately come into effect Note The initial IP configuration is usually done directly at the host system using the special procedure described in Section 4 1 on page 15 However you can also connect to the RAS Putin using its pre configured IP settings Attention Changing the network settings of RAS PutIn might result
46. ck entries The list should contain callback entries only 5 5 7 4 want to allow non callback dial in for selected people except some people that should be called back Make sure you have callback enabled and Force callback is switched off Then you have to make an entry for every allowed client For callback entries all fields have to be specified There must be at least one non callback entry or anyone can dial in 5 5 7 5 want to allow callback connections only Make sure you have callback enabled and Force callback is switched on You have to make an entry for every allowed client Don t forget to mark the entries as callback entries 5 5 8 IPMI Settings 5 5 8 1 Generals By using the RAS PutIn IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface facilities you have an additional way to power on or off the system or to perform a hard reset Furthermore it provides the possibility to show an event log of the host system and the status of some system sensors i e temperature If your host system supports IPMI you can access it by one of the following ways e IPMI over Serial IPMI V1 5 is required e IPMI over LAN IPMI V1 5 is required 5 5 8 2 IPMI Settings Figure 5 25 shows the RAS PutIn IPMI settings panel Its options will be explained below e IPMI disabled Disables IPMI on RAS PutIn This means that Status via IPMI and Event Log via IPMI are not available and the power on off and reset functions don t use
47. ctions to the admin istration console or to the Remote Console The whole process will take about half a minute 5 5 12 1 Update Firmware RAS PutIn is a complete standalone computer The software it runs is called the firmware The firmware of RAS PutIn 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 Blackbox Web site If the firmware file is compressed file suffix zip then you must unzip it before you can proceed Under the Windows operating system you may 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 61 The following CSR is pending Download CSR Delete CSR SSL Certificate File Upload Figure 5 31 SSL Certificate Signing Request use WinZip from http www winzip com for uncompression Other operating systems might provide a program called unzip Before you can start updating the firmware of your RAS PutIn the new uncompressed firmware file must be accessible on the system that you use for connecting to RAS PutIn Updating the firmware is a three stage process e Firstly the new firmware file is uploaded onto RAS PutIn In order to do that you need to select the file on your local system using the browse button of the Upload Firmware panel see Figure 5 32 on the next page Once the firmware file has been uploaded it is checked whether it is a valid firmware file and whether there were any trans
48. d Mouse Settings socorrer rr 36 543 KVM Settings 2 24 65 bebe ee ee See aiei ee ee ee e a 37 5 6 AdtministrabloR ss so oaas ora he a ew ee R 39 Sl User Group Management sace ee BS Re ee EA Be aE Bs 39 SoLL Add USE os lo eee ew oe a Ew ete Bt we el ec 40 5 5 1 2 Delete User oc 4 42 a3 eee a ra Sle a we we we a 40 Dele Modiiy User lt lt s aa ea yra hiace a A A a a 40 Soba Copy User 2 ee nn pee e Ewa eR eee eS eee 40 A Add GIUD AIN 40 BO Delete Leepa lt a te pare ee RR eh H 41 55 1 7 Modify Growp 2 6 4 6464 2656 bbb eee ee ee 41 aL Copy CrO ss naa a a A ee EE Eee 41 90 2 Uger Group A III 41 Hod Network Seting cera a e A ed O EA a A 42 55 31 Dynamic DNS o cosa a wora aa u eoa aaa a aa a 44 Booed SNMP DEMINES o ix sa i a a a ee Bad a a a 45 55 0 peral Settings eo se sacco RA a ee De os 47 5 0 0 Modem Settings s ip se anea di k e a R N R a 49 5 0 1 ISDN Settings 2 825 525 82 2 koe eae ae a aoa a aa 50 5 5 7 1 I want to allow non callback dial in for everyone 52 5 5 7 2 I want to allow non callback dial in for selected people 52 5 5 7 3 I want to allow non callback dial in for everyone except some people that should be called back 2 4 52 5 5 7 4 I want to allow non callback dial in for selected people except some people that should be called back 52 5 5 7 5 I want to allow callback connections only 52 558 IPMI Settings ewe ee cd pa eR A a 52 A sk Gwe Se be w
49. e it is necessary to define a mouse hotkey in the Remote Console Settings Panel Section 5 3 5 on page 31 Press this key to free the captured local mouse pointer Single Mouse mode needs at least a Sun Java Virtual Machine 1 3 5 3 4 RAS Putin Video Settings RAS PutIn features two different dialogs which influence the video settings 5 3 4 1 Video Settings through the HTML Frontend One side is the video options panel in the RAS PutIn HTML Frontend see Figure 5 6 5 3 REMOTE CONSOLE 29 Enable local video pot y Noise filter normal lt I CERES best quality y Figure 5 6 Video Settings in HTML frontend Enable local video port This option decides if the local video output of RAS PutIn is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system Noise filter This option defines how RAS PutIn reacts to small changes in the video input signal A large filter setting needs less network traffic and leads to a faster video display but small changes in some display regions may not be recognized immediately A small filter displays all changes instantly but may lead to a constant amount of network traffic even if display content is not really changing depending on the quality of the video input signal All in all the default setting should be suitable for most situations Video Quality and Speed Using this option it is possible to tune the video system of RAS Putin to either maximize picture quality or
50. e ATX power button knows two operation modes pressing it shortly and pressing it for about 4 seconds As shown in Figure 5 11 these two modes are supported separately Table 5 2 explains the different effects Note The prerequisite for the remote power reset button to work is a correct installation of RAS PutIn The additional cabling as described in Section 3 3 3 on page 13 must be properly connected 5 4 SERVER 35 Server Power Status On Power Off Short press Power Off Long press Figure 5 11 Internal Power Control External power option If an external power option is enabled the power control will look like shown in Figure 5 12 control Switch1 Socket1 for KVM port 1 Power Off Port Switch1 Socketl y Current state Unknow Power Off Direct Figure 5 12 External Power Control The upper half is used to switch the power for the KVM port currently active Use the KVM settings Section 5 4 3 on the next page to assign a port of the external power control to a KVM port If no assignment exists the option is disabled The lower half offers controls for switching each port of the external power control directly Select the appropriate port and decide whether to power it off or on The Get State option is used to determine the current status of the selected port It is executed once when the page gets loaded if it is necessary to get the power state later just choose this option Power Control
51. e eee ee eee POE ha a 52 0 0 0 2 IPMI Settings cios dcir owe ee ea 53 558 39 Power Control gt c ss eas e asst ep cs ee ee RR a 54 R Event bee va IPM ae p caca a e EA ee Be 54 RS Stamme MA EMO cee ca Se ete awe A RC 54 509 LDAP Settings s sa saosa a A e p a a pat aa a 55 DEIT Generals s oeg d an a pa bee E a e a ee iaa 55 559 2 LDAP Settings cocer ara a 55 59 10 Security DORE criando eh wee eee R D i a 56 DRIOL SSL SEGUMES 24 2a be be ea a eee a ee a a o i ES 56 50 102 Telnet Settings ao aa a da A 57 mals IP Access Control i gone a e a TR K E T 9 58 5 5 11 SSL Certificate Management e a 59 5 0 12 Maintenance x aK 246 42 a 5 8 a a a aa 60 5 5 12 1 Update Firmware 2 2 45454 S24 a Ree R a 61 5 6 Access via Telnet sa s 644 6 ee ee a a ee A ee ae eae hae 62 Contents vii 6 Frequently Asked Questions 65 A Glossary 67 B RAS PutIn Video Modes 69 C Key Codes 71 D Pin Assignments 73 DE YOA HDA TTT 73 D 2 RJ 45 Connector Ethernet gt a gt a s saesae nemi o irad ab oaia pana 73 D 3 RJ 45 Connector ISDN sere p a soa mwoga moa apa ww RRR a a RR 74 D4 Serial SUB D 9 Connector Ll vo cursi pape a a e a 74 DS Serial SUB D 9 Connector 2 io cos nos sca eca a ee a ok a 74 DG RYM SUB D 25 CONHECO ca 6 ud Bor a he a ee 75 Dif Power Supply Cotmmector ia ea s e aca a A O e R 75 E Blackbox Warranty information TT F Specifications 79 Fl Sreand Weight cr i estaga ta bw bee ke ee a ba es 79 F2 Environmental e occasion
52. e this product even if Blackbox has been advised of the possibility of such damages In any case Blackbox entire liability under any provision of this agreement shall be limited to the amount actually paid by you for the firmware and or hardware Because some states jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages the above limitation may not apply to you F Specifications F 1 Size and Weight Height 44mm 1 HU Height Unit Width 105 mm 1 4 19 Length Box 223 mm Length Box with connectors 233 Weigth F 2 Environmental Temperature 700 g Operating Storage 0 C to 40 C 32 F to 131 F 18 C to 70 C 20 F to 158 F Humidity Operating Storage 10 to 90 non condensing 5 to 95 non condensing 80 APPENDIX F SPECIFICATIONS G Operation advices e This device has to be operated with the provided power supply BLACKBOX ENG EPA 121DA 12 only Use of other power supplies voids the product liability of the manu facturer If the power supply shows a malfunction it must not be opened Instead a replacement has to be requested from the manufacturer or the vender e The power cord of the power supply is the point of junction to the supply network AC 230 V Therefore the power supply and socket have to be easily accessible to disconnect them quickly if it is necessary e The device contai
53. ed down or powered up e Trap destinations Here you can enter the IP addresses to which the traps will be sent For every IP address you have to set an according community This is necessary so that your management client can identify the SNMP traps The RAS Putin SNMP MIB This link allows you to download the RAS PutIn SNMP MIB file This file may be necessary for an SNMP client to communicate with RAS PutIn 5 5 5 Serial Settings The RAS PutIn Serial Settings Figure 5 22 on the following page allow you to specify what devices are connected to the two serial ports and how to use them Serial Port 1 This port may be used for different purposes All possible options are listed and described below e Configuration login Don t use the serial port for any special function use it only for the initial configuration see Section 4 1 on page 15 e Modem Allows to access RAS PutIn via modem see Section 5 5 6 on page 49 for details e IPMI over Serial Enables the possibility to use this serial port for IPMI 1 5 over serial check Section 5 5 8 on page 52 for more information e Passthrough Using this option it is possible to connect an arbitrary device to the serial port and access it assuming it provides terminal support via telnet Select the appropriate options for the serial port and use the Telnet Console see Section 5 3 6 on page 33 or a standard telnet client to connect to RAS PutIn For more information about the telnet in
54. ee ek a a 4 1 1 Initial configuration via DHCP server aaaea 4 1 2 Initial configuration via local console 4 1 3 Mouse Keyboard and Video configuration 4 1 3 1 RAS Putln mouse settings 4 1 3 2 Host system mouse settings o 4 1 3 3 RAS PutIn Video Modes e Usage Dl Prerequisites lt oos e pacs se RR E RO RR 5 2 Login into RAS Putln and logout lt lt lt e e e ceco a espet 531 Lozim inta RAS Putin s aria mora ea ia ea eae a 5 2 2 Main Screen 22 a aaa hee a a R a 5 2 3 Logout from RAS PutIn a eee eee bio Remote Consoles aus so ey aoe a RE a A week ey ee ee ee K E 9 5 3 1 Show Remote Console o s e socs a aoe aa abe 2 R a ee 53 2 Remote Chat Frame e ss sa sa a edos a pa a a a a 5 3 3 RAS PutIn Mouse Synchronization oeoo a 5 3 4 RAS Putln Video Settings oeoo a eee eee 10 10 10 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 17 17 17 17 vi Contents 5 3 4 1 Video Settings through the HIT ML Frontend 29 5 3 4 2 Video Settings through the remote console 29 5343 Custom Video Modes i s occiso rre Re koe 30 5 3 5 Remote Console Settings a 31 53 6 Telnet Consol s ie sa saw sacs aada aa p a Re a 33 DA DEVE cepe a Rem ge hm aE Ge e Reve ee es A Gee E E a de 34 p41 Pover 6 lt 0 ss mep d y pa eee a se 34 54 2 Keyboar
55. ent RAS PutIn has to expose its identity to a client using a cryptographic certificate Upon delivery this certificate is the same for all RAS PutIns ever produced and certainly won t match the network configurations that will be applied to the card by its user The certificate s underlying secrete private key is also used for securing the SSL handshake Hence this is a security risk but far better than no encryption at all e Common name This is the network name of RAS PutIn 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 card with a Web browser without the http prefix In case the name given here and the actual network name differ the browser will pop up a security warning when the card is accessed over HTTPS SSL Secure Socket Layer 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 59 Organizational unit This field is used for specifying to which department within an organization RAS PutIn belongs Organization The name of the organization to which RAS PutIn belongs Locality City The city where the organization is located State Province The state or province where the organization is located Country The country where the organization is located This is the two letter ISO code e g DE for Germany or US for the USA Challenge Password Some certification authorities require a challenge password to authorize later changes on the
56. es to switch power for each port This is an optionally available external module to switch power of a single system by putting it in the power supply line of the controlled system The ePowerSwitch is a 4 port power socket Each single port can be switched using an integrated web browser or the serial port RAS Putin supports the serial connection 3 Avocent is a registered trademark of Acovent Corp Huntsville 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 49 ePowerSwitch M S The ePowerSwitch M S is a cascade of up to 4 power sockets with 8 ports RAS PutIn has to be connected to the first socket of the cascade via a serial connection Reset button pre 250 milli second Power button short pres m ds Power button long press 5000 milli seconds Figure 5 23 Internal Power Option Settings 5 5 6 Modem Settings RAS PutIn 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 RAS PutIn s serial interface Logically connecting to RAS PutIn using a telephone line means nothing else than building up a dedicated point to point connection from your console computer to the RAS PutIn With other words RAS PutIn acts as an Internet Service Provider ISP to which you can dial in The connection is established using the Point to Point Protocol PPP Before you connect to RAS PutIn make sure to configure your console computer accordingly For instance on Windo
57. ew and unused group name The user management of RAS PutIn allows many different users The following sections will describe how to add change and delete users 5 5 1 1 Add User Fill out the fields New user name Full user name Password and Confirm password as shown in Figure 5 16 on the preceding page Optionally select the groups the new user should become a member of Click the Create user button 5 5 1 2 Delete User Select a user in the Existing user control Click the Lookup button The complete user information will be shown Click the Delete user button Hint The pre configured supervisor user super can t be deleted This user can be renamed only 5 5 1 3 Modify User Select a user in the Existing user control Click the lookup button to get all the user s infor mation All fields can be modified as required The old password is not displayed but can be modified If all changes are done click the Modify user button 5 5 1 4 Copy User Select a user in the Existing user control Enter a new user name in the field New user name Click the Copy User button This will create a new user with the given name All properties of the selected user will be copied to the new one except user specific permissions 5 5 1 5 Add Group Type the name of the new group into the field New group name and click the Create group button
58. he speed and acceleration settings of the host system automatically See the section below for a more detailed explanation Automatic mode and mouse synchronization The automatic mode performs the speed de tection during mouse synchronization Whenever the mouse doesn t move correctly there are two ways for re synchronizing local and remote mouse Fast Sync The fast synchronization is used to correct a temporary but fixed skew Choose the option using the Remote Console options menu see Section 5 3 on page 22 or press the mouse synchronization hotkey sequence in case you defined one refer to Section 5 3 5 on page 31 28 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Intelligent Sync If the fast sync doesn t work or the mouse settings have been changed on the host system use the intelligent resynchronization This method takes more time than the fast one and can be accessed with the appropriate item in the Re mote Console option menu The intelligent synchronization requires a correctly adjusted picture Use the auto adjustment function or the manual correction in the Video Settings panel refer to Section 5 3 4 to setup the picture The Sync mouse button on top of the Remote Console can behave differently depending on the current state of mouse synchronization Usually pressing this button leads to a fast sync except in situations where the KVM port or the video mode changed recently Limitations of the mouse synchronization While the intelligent algo
59. ion Encoding Normal The Standard Encoding algorithm well suited for many parallel users and or in a LAN environment Transmission Encoding Compressed The data stream between RAS PutIn and the Remote Console window will be addition ally compressed to save bandwidth Choosing one of the rates between LAN lowest and GSM modem highest adjusts the compression rate Typical applications generate traf fic between 5 Kbytes s compression rate GSM modem and 10 Kbytes s compression rate LAN The compression encoding is well suited for a Modem or ISDN environment However since the compression takes processing time on RAS PutIn itself this encoding shouldn t be used when many parallel users want to access RAS PutIn at the same time Start in Monitor Mode Sets the initial value for the monitor mode By default the monitor mode is off In case you switch it on the Remote Console window will be started in a read only mode Exclusive Access Enables the exclusive access mode immediately at Remote Console startup This forces 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 Remote Console Type Specifies which Remote Console Viewer to use Default Java VM Uses the defautl Java Virtual Machine of your Browser This may be the Microsoft JVM for the Internet Explorer or the Sun JVM if it is configured this way Use of
60. is connected to your local network environment and your connection to 24 CHAPTER 5 USAGE the internet is available using a proxy server only without NAT being configured the Remote Console is very unlikely to be able to establish the according connection This is because today s Web proxies are not capable of relaying the RFB protocol In case of problems please consult your network administrator in order to provide an appropriate network environment The Remote Console window always tries to show the remote screen with its optimal size That means it will adapt its size to the size of the remote screen initially and after the screen resolution of the remote screen has been changed However you can always resize the Remote Console window in your local window system as usual Hint In difference to the remote host system the Remote Console window on your local window system is just one window among others In order to make keyboard and mouse work your Remote Console window must have the local input focus The upper part of the Remote Console window contains a control bar Using its elements you can see the state of the Remote Console and influence the local Remote Console settings Section 5 3 on page 22 describes the meaning of each control Description of Remote Console Options e Ctrl Alt Delete Special button key to send the Control Alt Delete key combination to the remote system see also Section 5 3 5 on p
61. ith the other end to the bracket connector as shown in Figure 3 8 5 Find the cable connecting the front panel power button and the main board 6 Disconnect this cable from the main board and connect it to the pin connector on the bracket as shown in Figure 3 8 7 Take the supplied red black power cable and connect the cable with one end to the main board s power jumper connector where you just disconnected the cable to the front panel and with the other end to the bracket connector as shown in Figure 3 8 8 Check the cabling finally there are four cables connected to the jumper connector on the bracket Now connect the bracket to the RAS PutIn serial port 2 using the supplied SUB D 9 to SUB D 9 connector 3 3 4 Connecting the External Reset Power Option Please refer to the manual of the Blackbox external power switch option or a third party external power option to connect those external devices to one of the serial interface on the rear side of 14 CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION RAS PutIn By the date of printing this manual supported options are e Avocent SPC 800 1600 e Sentry In Line Power Module e Leuning ePowerSwitch 3 3 5 Connecting Ethernet The rear side of RAS PutIn 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 automatica
62. kbox Any replacement hardware will be warranted for the remainder of the original period or thirty 30 days whichever is longer Blackbox will repair or replace products returned to Blackbox s facility To request warranty service you must inform Blackbox within the warranty period If warranty service is required Blackbox will issue a Return Material Authorization Number You must ship the products back to Blackbox in their original or an equivalent packaging prepay shipping charges and insure the shipment or accept the possibility of loss or damage during shipment NO OTHER WARRANTIES To the maximum extend permitted by applicable law Blackbox disclaim all other warranties either express or implied including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with regard to the firmware the accompanying written materials and any accompanying hardware This limited warranty gives you specific legal rights You may have others which vary from state jurisdiction to state jurisdiction NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in no event shall Blackbox be liable for any damages whatsoever including without limitation special incidental consequential or indirect damages for personal injury loss of business information or any other pecuniary loss 78 APPENDIX E BLACKBOX WARRANTY INFORMATION arising out of the use of or inability to us
63. lly 3 3 5 1 10 Mbps Connection For 10BASE T Ethernet networks the Fast Ethernet adapter uses Category 3 4 or 5 UTP cable To establish a 10 Mbps connection the cable must be connected to a LOBASE T hub 1 Make sure that the cable is wired appropriately for a standard 10BASE T adapter 2 Align the RJ 45 plug with the notch on the adapter s connector and insert it into the adapter s connector 3 3 5 2 100 Mbps Connection For 100BASE TX Fast Ethernet networks RAS PutIn supports Category 5 UTP cabling To establish a 100 Mbps connection the cable must be connected to a 100BASE TX hub 1 Make sure that the cable is wired appropriately for a standard 100BASE TX adapter 2 Align the RJ 45 plug with the notch on the adapter s connector and insert it into the adapter s connector Note The UTP wire pairs and configuration for 1OOBASE TX cable are identical to those for 10BASE T cable when used with Category 5 UTP cable 3 3 6 Connecting ISDN The rear side of RAS PutIn contains two RJ 45 connectors The upper connector marked as ISDN is used to connect RAS PutIn to an ISDN network using a standard ISDN cable 1 Avocent is a registered trademark of Acovent Corp Huntsville 4 Configuration 4 1 Initial Configuration RAS PutIn s communication interfaces are all based on TCP IP RAS PutIn comes pre configured with the IP configuration listed in Table 4 1 Table 4 1 Initial IP configuration
64. mission errors In case of any error the Upload Firmware function will be aborted Upload Figure 5 32 Panel for uploading a new firmware Secondly if everything went well you see the Update Firmware panel see Figure 5 33 on the following page The panel shows you the version number of the currently running firmware and the version number of the uploaded firmware Pressing the update button will store the new version over the old one Attention this process is not reversible and might take some minutes Make sure the RAS PutIn s power supply won t be interrupted during the update process because this may cause an unusable device Thirdly after the firmware has been stored the panel will request you to reset RAS PutIn manually Half a minute after the reset RAS PutIn will run with the new firmware version and should be accessible However you are requested to login once again 62 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Current version 03 02 02 Build 541 andard Edition New version Build 541 ard Edition Figure 5 33 Panel to update a new firmware that was previously uploaded Attention The three stage firmware update process and complete consistency check are making a mis take in updating the firmware almost impossible However only experienced staff members or administrators should perform a firmware update Make sure RAS PutIn s power supply won t be interrupted Server Power Status ServSwitch RAS Putin Board I
65. n Video Modes Table B 1 lists the video modes RAS PutIn supports Please don t use other custom video settings besides of these If done so RAS PutIn may not be able to detect them Table B 1 RAS PutIn Video Modes Resolution x y Refresh Rates Hz 640x350 70 85 640x400 56 70 85 640x480 60 67 72 75 85 90 100 120 720x400 70 85 800x600 56 60 70 72 75 85 90 100 832x624 75 1024x768 60 70 72 75 85 90 100 1152x864 75 1152x870 75 1152x900 66 76 1280x960 60 1280x1024 60 70 APPENDIX B RAS PUTIN VIDEO MODES C Key Codes Table C 1 shows the key codes used to defines key strokes 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 The layout for this keyboard is shown in Figure C 1 However most modifier keys and other alphanumeric keys used for hotkey purposes in application programs are on an identical position no matter what language mapping you are using Some of the keys have aliases also means they can be named by 2 key codes separated by comma in the table Esc
66. name that was used to log into RAS PutIn super in the example e Chat Line This is an editable text line where a new message can be entered Once the Enter key is hit the message is broadcasted to every other connected party In case a connected user has not yet opened the Chat Frame it will be opened automatically in order to deliver the message Note Any message sent to the Chat will be broadcasted to ALL connected users which are using the Remote Console at the time the message was sent There is no option to direct a message to a particular user only The Chat has no message history That means messages will be received only after opening the Remote Console Messages that possibly have been sent among other users will be lost for a user who opens up his Remote Console afterwards 5 3 3 RAS Putin Mouse Synchronization Introduction A common problem with KVM devices is the synchronization between the local and remote mouse cursors RAS PutIn addresses this situation with an intelligent synchroniza tion algorithm There are two mouse modes available on RAS PutIn Direct Mode This mode just translates the mouse movements from the Remote Console in a way that one pixel move will lead to n pixel moves on the remote system This parameter n is adjustable with the scaling The direct mode works only when mouse acceleration is turned off on the remote system Automatic Mode The automatic mode tries to detect t
67. ns a lithium battery CR 1632 Gladly we exchange this battery for you When changing the battery yourself please notice Attention explosion hazard while exchanging the battery improperly Disposal of old batteries has to be done as mentioned on the package of the new one
68. ode This is possibly a Windows XP problem Try not to move the mouse while XP goes in standby mode Using MacOS X a HTTPS connection fails 66 CHAPTER 6 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS A 009 Q 010 A 010 Q 011 A 011 You have to install the Blackbox certificate using our certificate installer available on the utility CD Please refer to the instructions on this CD for further information how to install the certificate Can t upload the signed certificate in MacOS X If an internal error occurs while uploading the signed certificate either change the extension of the file to txt or add a file helper using the Internet Explorer preferences for this type of file Make sure that the encoding is plain text and the checkbox use for outgoing is checked Another possibility is to use a Mozilla based browser Everytime 1 open a dialog box with some buttons the mouse pointers are not synchronous anymore 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 A Glossary ACPI ATX BMC DHCP DNS EMP FAQ HTTP HTTPS IPMI LED MIB PS 2 SNMP SSL SVGA UTP A specification that enables the operating system to implement power management and system configuration Advanced Technology Extended A particular specification of a motherboard intro duced b
69. odelines in a X Window configuration on the host or with uncommon hosts or operating systems This option is for advanced users only it is possible to influcence the correct video trans mission by using this option so use it with care The maximum number of custom video resolutions is 4 Using the option Custom Modes Handling custom modes may be disabled Off used additional to the standard video resolutions or used exclusive Only With the last option it is also possible to force a special video mode for RAS PutIn 5 3 REMOTE CONSOLE 31 Custom Modes Handling amp Off Y Additional Only Custom Mode Number ii lt I Update X Resolution Ha Y Resolution l Horizontal Frequency Hz Vertical Frequency Hz Total horizontal pixel Ha Polarity H gt Figure 5 8 Custom Video Modes To change the parameters for a mode choose the number and press Update It is necessary to provide some information so the video mode may be correcly recognized e X Resolution Visible number of horizontal pixels Y Resolution Visible number of vertical pixels Horizontal Frequency Hz The horizontal line frequency in Hz Vertical Frequency Hz The vertical refresh frequency in Hz Total horizontal pixels The total amount of pixels per line including the non visible and blanking area Polarity The polarity positive negative of the synchronization signals V means verti cal H means hori
70. on the RAS PutIn tools CD or can be downloaded over the RAS PutIn front end 3 Telnet A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to RAS PutIn s serial port via a terminal mode Since the primary interface of RAS PutIn is the HTTP interface this chapter is mainly concern ing this topic Other interfaces are explained in their according subtopics In order to use the Remote Console window of your managed host system the browser has to come with a Java Runtime Environment version 1 1 or higher But even if the used browser has no Java support for instance on small handheld devices you are still able to maintain your remote host system using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself We recommend the following browser for an unsecured connection to RAS PutIn e Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 0 or higher on Windows 98 Windows ME and Windows 2000 Windows XP e Netscape Navigator 7 0 or Mozilla 1 0 on Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux and other UNIX like Operating Systems In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection you need a browser that supports the HTTPS protocol Strong security is only assured by using key length of 128 Bit Many old browsers don t have a strong 128 Bit encryption algorithm due to former export regulations of US authorities For instance Internet Explorer 5 0 that comes as part of Windows ME and Windows 200
71. ostly on board In the IPMI Settings you must enter the IP address of this host system and thecorrect password for the LAN connection You can also access other IPMI systems when you enter their IP address 5 5 8 3 Power Control If IPMI is enabled these functions are performed over IPMI requests These requests may take a few seconds If IPMI is disabled the power control functions power on power off reset are performed over the internal or external power control options 5 5 8 4 Event Log via IPMI The Event Log via IPMI accesses the SEL System Event Log repository and reads every entry sequentially The first time you use this function after starting RAS PutIn the complete 54 CHAPTER 5 USAGE repository has to be read what may take 1 or 2 minutes FEU Last24 hours vif Update t of time some minutes Press update to show events Clear Event Log Figure 5 26 IPMI Event Log When all entries have been read RAS PutIn displays the entries with their time sensor and description in accordance with the filter settings You have the choice between several pre settings i e last day last week or an exact declaration of the start and the end date Once you changed the filter settings click on Update in order to update the shown entries see Figure 5 26 If the checkbox Get sensor names is checked all sensor IDs will be shown with their respective names The time that is shown in the log entries i
72. our In this case each click on one of the links will lead you to the login screen where you have to provide the login information again The lower left frame of the RAS PutIn main window called the menu frame contains the main menu that leads you to the pages for various administration tasks The functions of the menu frame will be described in detail during the following sections The different function pages selected by one of the menu links will be presented in the big right frame called the function frame Initially the function frame contains a short summary of your RAS PutIn Table 5 1 on page 23 gives you a description of the meaning of each point 22 CHAPTER 5 USAGE f ServSwitch RAS PutIn Mozilla l 0 x a File Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Window Help Q 6 Q Se https 192 168 1 67 home asp Qy Search Wo aj Q a Home Bookmarks LARA online Zw S eRIC online Zw LARA local eRIC local e LARA M nchen SKYM Online SRT El S ServSwitch RAS Putin Q lt gt BLACK BOX NETWORK SERVICES Remote Console E Server E Server Power Status Administration Firmware Version Device Management Users Figure 5 3 RAS PutIn home menu window 5 2 3 Logout from RAS Putin This link logs out the current user and presents a new login screen Please note that an automatic logout will be performed in case there is no activity for half an hour 5 3 Remote Console 5 3
73. own the power supply of the host system The effect of the long button press can be immediately ob served on the panel that is loaded into the browser because of the button press The power state will be off 5 4 2 Keyboard Mouse Settings RAS PutIn supports different keyboard and mouse models The panel shown in Figure 5 14 on the next page is used to adjust those settings as well as some other ones Their meaning is listed below Targeted KVM port Selects the KVM port the settings made below will be applied to Choosing update will display the current values for this port and select it for alteration of its settings Keyboard Model Selects the keyboard model used on the remote host system Mouse Model Selects the mouse model that is used on the remote system A wrongly selected mouse model may result in strange mouse effects Mouse Mode Direct 1 n mouse mode Use a direct translation of mouse movements between the local and the remote pointer You may also set a fixed Scaling which determines the amount the remote mouse pointer moved when the local mouse pointer is moved by one pixel This option only works when the mouse settings on host are linear means that there is no mouse acceleration involved Mouse Mode 5 4 SERVER 37 Targeted KVM port 1 lt speed detection Reset mousey oard emulation Figure 5 14 Keyboard Mouse settings Automatic speed detection Use this option if the mouse settings
74. ptions 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 Options Scaling Allows you to scale down the Remote Console You can still use mouse and keyboard however the scaling algorithm won t preserve all display details Options Readability Filter Toggles the Readability Filter on or off If the filter is switched on in scaling mode it will preserve most of the screen details even if the image is substantially scaled down This option will be available only with a Java Virtual Machine version number of 1 3 or higher Options Chat Window Opens up the RAS PutIn Chat Frame See Section 5 3 2 on the next page for a detailed description Options Soft Keyboard Opens up the Menu for the Soft Keyboard Options 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 Options Soft Keyboard Mapping Used for choosing the according language and country mapping of the Soft Keyboard Options Local Keyboard Used to change the language mapping of your browser machine running the Remote Con sole Applet Normally the Applet determines the correct value automatically However depending
75. puter The default value will work in most cases 50 CHAPTER 5 USAGE 5 5 7 ISDN Settings In addition to the standard interfaces RAS PutIn offers remote access using an ISDN connec Hon Logically connecting to RAS PutIn using an ISDN line means nothing else than building up a dedicated point to point connection from your console computer to RAS PutIn With other words RAS PutIn acts as an Internet Service Provider ISP to which you can dial in The connection is established using the Point to Point Protocol PPP Before you connect to RAS Putin make sure to configure your console computer accordingly The ISDN settings panel see Figure 5 24 on the facing page allows you to configure RAS PutIn for an ISDN connection The according ISDN options are described below e Enable ISDN Enables or disables the ISDN adapter e MSN This Multiple Subscriber Number is assigned to RAS PutIn Hint The RAS PutIn ISDN function does not work with empty MSN e Layer 2 protocol The Layer 2 Protocol the Data Link Layer of the ISO 7 layered architecture It is responsible for the error free movement of data between network nodes You can choose between the High level Data Link Control HDLC and X 75 You can leave this option untouched in case you use a standard network connection as built in Windows or Linux e Enable hang up timer for incoming calls If you want RAS PutIn to hang up an incoming connection you have to check this box The
76. re see Section 4 1 on page 15 58 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Rule Number This should contain the number of a rule for which the following commands will apply This field will be ignored in case of appending a new rule IP Mask Specifies the IP address or IP address range for which the rule applies Examples the number concatenated to an IP address with a is the number of valid bits that will be used of the given IP address 192 168 1 22 32 matches the IP Address 192 168 1 22 192 168 1 0 24 matches all IP packets with source addresses from 192 168 1 0 to 192 168 1 255 0 0 0 0 0 matches any IP packet Policy The policy determines what to do with matching packets They can be accepted or dropped NOTE The order of the rules is important The rules are checked in ascending order until a rule matches All the rules below the matching one will be ignored The default policy applies if no match has been found Appending a rule Enter the IP Mask and set the policy Finally press Append Inserting a rule Enter the rule number the IP Mask and set the policy Finally press Insert Replacing a rule Enter the rule number the IP Mask and set the policy Finally press Replace Deleting a rule Enter the rule number and press Delete 5 5 11 SSL Certificate Management RAS PutIn uses the SSL protocol for any encrypted network traffic between itself and a con nected client During connection establishm
77. rithm works fine for com mon cases there are some special limitations which may prevent the synchronization from working properly Special Mouse Driver There are mouse drivers which influence the synchronization pro cess leading to desynchronized mouse pointers If this happens make sure you don t use a special vendor specific mouse driver on your host system Windows XP Mouse Setting Windows XP knows a setting to improve mouse acceleration which has to be deactivated Badly adjusted picture To have the intelligent sync working a correctly adjusted picture is necessary Use the auto adjustment function or the manual correction in the Video Settings panel refer to Section 5 3 4 to setup the picture The video also has to be of sufficiently good quality Active Desktop Check if you have the Active Desktop feature of Microsoft Win dows enabled If so don t use a plain background use some kind of wallpaper You could also disable the Active Desktop entirely 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 by synchronized RAS PutIn also features another mode the Single Mouse Mode where only the remote mouse pointer is visible Activate this mode in the open Remote Console see Section 5 3 on page 22 and click into the window area The local mouse pointer will be hidden and the remote one can be controlled directly To leave this mod
78. s In terminal mode the pass through access to serial port 1 is activated if the serial settings were made accordingly All inputs are redirected to the device on serial port 1 and its answers are displayed at the Telnet interface The following list shows the according command mode command syntax and their usage e help Shows the list of the following commands e cls Clear screen e logout Logs out the current user and disconnects from the client e version Shows a compound string off all available version numbers e terminal Starts the terminal passthrough mode for serial port 1 The key sequence lt esc gt exit switches back to command modus The IP address has to be replaced by the one that is actually assigned to RAS PutIn 64 CHAPTER 5 USAGE 6 Frequently Asked Questions Q 001 A 001 Q 002 A 002 Q 003 A 003 Q 004 A 004 Q 005 A 005 Q 006 A 006 Q 007 A 007 Q 008 A 008 Q 009 The remote mouse doesn t work or is not synchronous Make sure the mouse settings in RAS PutIn match the mouse model There are some circumstances where the mouse synchronization process could behave incor rectly refer to Section 5 3 3 on page 27 for further explanation The video quality is bad or the picture is grainy Try to correct the brightess and contrast settings see Section 5 3 4 on page 28 until they are out of a range where the picture looks grainy Use the auto adjustment
79. s compliant to RS 232 serial line standard We are offering an according serial cable that can be used for connecting the connector of RAS PutIn with a Sub D 9 connector of a terminal or the serial line interface of a computer running a terminal program The serial line has to be configured with the parameters given in Table 4 2 on the following page 16 CHAPTER 4 CONFIGURATION 2 Use a crossover Ethernet cable to connect RAS PutIn to your configuring computer back to back and use the initial configuration to connect Table 4 2 Serial line parameters Parameter Value Bits second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity No Stop bits 1 Flow Control None When using the configuration with a serial terminal reset RAS PutIn and immediately press ESC You will see some device information and a gt prompt Enter config press lt Enter gt and wait a few seconds for the configuration questions to appear As you go along you will see the following lines which you have to answer or to which you may provide the default value by pressing lt Enter gt The default value is shown in square brackets IP auto configuration none dhcp bootp dhcp IP 192 168 1 22 NetMask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 0 0 0 0 for none 0 0 0 0 Enable IP Access Control yes no no IP autoconfiguration With this option you can specify whether RAS PutIn should fetch it s network settings from a DH
80. s option represents the active directory domain that is configured in the Microsoft Active Directory server This option is only valid if you have choosen Microsoft Active Directory as the LDAP server type 5 5 10 Security Settings Figure 5 29 on the next page shows the panel for security related SSL Telnet and IP address settings Each of those categories will be explained in the following subsections M Force HTTPS KYM Encryption lt Off L 1 Try Force E Enable TELNET access f Enable IP Ac Default policy ACCEPT lt I Rule IP Mask Figure 5 29 Security settings 5 5 10 1 SSL Settings Table 5 4 explains the possible adjustments related to the usage of SSL Table 5 4 Security parameters 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 57 Parameter Description Force HTTPS If this option is enabled access to the Web front end is only possible using an HTTPS connection RAS PutIn won t listen on the HTTP port for incoming connections In case you want to create your own SSL certificate that is used to identify this RAS PutIn refer to Section 5 5 11 on page 59 KVM encryption This option controls the encryption of the RFB protocol the protocol used by the Remote Console to transmit the screen data to the administrator machine and keyboard and mouse data back to the host If set to Off no encryption will be used If set to Try the applet tries to make an encrypted connec tion In case connection establishment fails for an
81. s shown in Table 1 1 Table 1 1 Initial configuration parameter value IP auto configuration DHCP IP address 192 168 1 22 Netmask 255 255 255 0 Gateway none IP access disabled If this initial configuration doesn t meet your local requirements you need to do the initial IP configuration Use one of the following ways 1 Connect the enclosed NULL modem cable to the serial interface on the RAS PutIn rear side The serial interface needs to be adjusted with the parameters shown in table Table 1 2 Table 1 2 Serial parameters parameter value Bits second 115200 Data bits 8 Parity No Stop bits 1 Flow Control None Use a terminal software e g hyperterm or minicom to connect to RAS PutIn Reset RAS PutIn and immediately press lt ESC gt You will see some device information and a gt prompt Enter the command config and press lt Enter gt After waiting a few moments you may configure IP auto configuration IP address net mask and default gateway Pressing lt Enter gt without entering values does not change settings The gateway value must be set to 0 0 0 0 for no gateway or any other value You will be asked if the values are correct and get a chance to correct them After confirming RAS Putin performs a reset 2 Use a crossover Ethernet cable to connect RAS PutIn to your configuring computer back to back Set the IP address of
82. s the SEL time which means that this time is independent to the system time The actual SEL time is shown at the top of the log table With the button Clear Event Log you can delete all entries in the SEL repository 5 5 8 5 Status via IPMI Status Value Min Min crit ok 10 _ Status Value Min Min Max crit 20 aro Figure 5 27 Example of IPMI State panel The Status via IPMI function shows the current values and the min max thresholds of all fans temperatures and voltages existing in the host system An example of such an IPMI panel is shown in Figure 5 27 on the next page You can change the thresholds by editing the according values and pressing Apply The first time you call this page it may take up to two minutes until the sensor data will be shown 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 55 Note If IPMI is disabled Status via IPMI and System Log via IPMI are not available the corresponding menu options are not visible 5 5 9 LDAP Settings 5 5 9 1 Generals With RAS PutIn you have the possibility to keep authentication information in a central LDAP directory To use this feature you need to configure an LDAP server that contains these infor mation The settings are explained in the following 5 5 9 2 LDAP Settings Figure 5 28 shows the RAS PutIn LDAP settings panel Its options will be explained below fag Generic LDAP server y Name of login name attribute Name of user entry objectclass
83. sas RS O a a a aA E RR 63 English US Keyboard Layout used for key codes o o 71 List of Tables L1 Le 2 1 4 1 4 2 5 1 DL 5 3 5 4 5 9 Bl Ga Tana configuration iaa oe ee Pa Ge hae a ee 3 Serial parameters 424 2 2 45 44 ia eae ee we Re eR a a 3 Host system failures and how they are detected 8 Initial IP configuration os 246640542 6220 62 be bt ae eee ee es 15 Serial line parameters 2 2 6 ce ee 16 Meaning of the main menu RAS PutIn features aooaa a 23 Remote reset and power button effects 2 0 ee es 35 RAS PutIn user and group permissions 000 00 ee eae 42 PEGUEN DATAMELHETS oa a ee ee eb Be a 56 Telnet security settings e sa cuco Ree we a a 57 RAS Putln Video Modes es 69 Key Names cr 244 4448 442584 A ee e Eee we e E 71 xii List of Tables 1 The Quick Installation Guide Installation RAS PutIn redirects local keyboard mouse and video data to a remote administration console All data is transmitted via IP RAS PutIn can be used in a multi administrator and multi server environment as well Combining RAS PutIn with a KVM switched matrix allows to access multiple remote servers over a single remote console Connectors Front Side Connectors Figure 1 1 y i K local e mouse Y o Ry FSS te n F H local e 4 H K Haas keyboard T Se l l Z ESS t local video interface Figure 1 1 Front Side Connectors Reset P
84. set 4 if gt 275 Vertical Offset 4 gt I 35 Reset this Mode S Save Changes 1024x768 85HzZ Undo Changes Figure 5 7 Video Settings Panel Phase Defines the phase for video sampling used to control the display quality together with the setting for sampling clock Horizontal Position Use the left and right buttons to move the picture in horizontal direction while this option is selected Vertical Position Use the left and right buttons to move the picture in vertical direction while this option is selected Reset this Mode Resets mode specific settings to their factory defaults Reset all Modes Resets all settings to their factory defaults Save changes Save changes permanently Undo changes Restore last settings Brightness Black level and Contrast affect all modes and KVM ports globally the other settings are changed specifically for each mode on each KVM port Video Settings Permissions Video settings are divided into two parts with different permis sions An user of the Remote Console which has the standard permission is able to change Brightness Contrast Black level and the picture positions The advanced permission allows to additionally change Clock Phase and to use the reset buttons 5 3 4 3 Custom Video Modes Using this option see Figure 5 8 on the next page it is possible to add video modes to RAS Putin which are not recognized using the factory settings This may be useful when using special m
85. shown 5 3 2 Remote Chat Frame The RAS PutIn Remote Console features a Chat Frame that allows you to communicate with other parties logged into the same device Figure 5 5 shows an example of the Chat Frame CTE xj Tite Bar thomas ganesh peppercon de supen Hello World Wworld gandalf peppercon de superj gt Hello Thomas thomas ganesh peppercon de super Howz going Identity Label Figure 5 5 Example for the Chat window The Chat Frame is helpful especially for discussing problems and questions among logged in RAS PutIn users in case the remote host s screen should not be changed or misused for that purpose Below all Chat Frame elements are listed together with their meaning and usage The elements will be referred to by the terms introduced in Figure 5 5 5 3 REMOTE CONSOLE 27 Chat Frame element description e Title Bar Shows the IP address of the RAS PutIn you are connected to e Chat Area Read only text area showing the messages which have been received so far inclusive your own messages sent to others The identity string of the sender precedes each message e Identity Label Shows the identity string used to precede messages sent by this Chat Frame The first part of the identity string is the user ID that has been used to log into the client system i e the system the browser runs on The second part behind Q is the hostname of the client system The last part in round brackets is the user
86. so that there is no interference with server operation or impact on network performance Figure 2 1 RAS PutIn total view Furthermore RAS PutIn offers remote power management and remote system management according to the interfaces of the remote server RAS PutIn supports three ways of power management e via the internal reset power option e via external scalable power switch box e via IPMI Version 1 5 TRAS PutIn ServSwitch RAS PutIn 6 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION Other features of RAS PutIn are e KVM keyboard video mouse access over IP ISDN or analogous telephone line e No impact on server or network performance e Automatically senses video resolution for best possible screen capture e High performance mouse tracking and synchronization e Port to connect a user console for direct analogous access to KVM switch e Local Mouse suppression only when using SUN s Java Virtual Machine RAS PutIn supports consoles consisting of PS 2 style keyboards PS 2 style mouse and HD 15 video output Please refer to Appendix D 1 on page 73 for more details RAS PutIn will automatically detect the current video mode of the console however manual fine tuning is recommended to receive the best video quality RAS PutIn will accept video streams up to 110 MHz dot clock This results in a screen resolution of 1280x1024 dots with a frame rate of 60 Hz The used system management options depend on the interfaces the remote server systems pro
87. synchronize quickly one of the above mentioned settings may be not correct 4 1 3 3 RAS Putin Video Modes RAS PutIn recognizes a limited number of common video modes When running X Window on the host system please don t use any custom modelines with special video modes If done so RAS PutIn may not be able to detect these You are on the safe side with all standard VESA video modes Please refer to Appendix B on page 69 for a list of all known modes 18 CHAPTER 4 CONFIGURATION 5 Usage 5 1 Prerequisites The RAS PutIn features an embedded operating system and the according applications offering a variety of standardized interfaces The functionality is exposed to the user via these interfaces This chapter will describe all of these interfaces and how to use them in detail All the interfaces are accessed using the TCP TP protocol family thus they can be used equally over the built in Ethernet adapter over modem or over ISDN The following interfaces are supported 1 HTTP HTTPS The most complete access is provided by an embedded Web server Thus the RAS PutIn environment can be entirely controlled by a standard Web browser De pending on the Web browser you can access the RAS PutIn card using the unsecured HTTP protocol or in case the browser supports it the encrypted HTTPS protocol It is recommended to use HTTPS whenever possible 2 SNMP Any standard SNMP client can use this protocol The according MIB is provided
88. tage 12 V e Current gt 1 A RJ 45 ISDN Using this connector RAS PutIn can be connected to an EURO ISDN network EMEA versions only RJ 45 Ethernet UTP3 5 cables may be used to connect RAS PutIn to an Ethernet LAN Connecting RAS Putin to the host system Perform the following steps in order to connect the KVM signals of the server system to RAS Putin 1 Connect the SUB D 25 to PS2 PS2 Video cable to the SUB D 25 connector on RAS PutIn Connect the purple PS 2 Keyboard jack to the keyboard connector of the host system Connect the green PS 2 mouse plug to the mouse connector of the host system Connect the VGA HD 15 connector to the VGA monitor output of the host system o e WwW N Connect the power supply as well as Ethernet and or modem ISDN depending how you want to access RAS PutIn In case you want to connect a local console to the host system besides RAS PutIn you can attach monitor keyboard and mouse to the according RAS PutIn connectors on its front Video modes RAS PutIn recognizes a limited number of common video modes When running X Window on the host system please don t use any custom modelines with special video modes If done so RAS PutIn may not be able to detect these You are on the safe side with all standard VESA video modes Please refer to Appendix B on page 69 for a list of all known modes Initial IP configuration Initially the RAS PutIn network interface is configured with the parameter
89. terface have a look at Section 5 6 on page 62 Serial Port 2 This serial port provides the power control options for RAS PutIn see also Section 5 4 1 on page 34 Choose a suitable setting and fill in additional required options By the date of printing this manual RAS PutIn supports the following options Internal Power Option The optionally available internal power bracket allows to access the ATX power and reset functions of a single system connected to RAS PutIn See Section 3 3 3 on page 13 for details For this power option it is possible to change the duration of each button press Choosing the link besides the option will lead to the form in Figure 5 23 on the 48 CHAPTER 5 USAGE o SPC 800 1600 Intelligent Power Module ePowerSwitch Configuration login Modem Serial line speed 115200 PB s Modem init string lt 1 C 192 168 3 1 sed if empty Client IP ac S IPMI over serial Passthrough access to serial port via Telnet Serial Line speed Data bits Disabled Internal power option External power option SPC 800 1600 Figure 5 22 Serial Settings facing page It features an entry field for the durations of a reset a short and a long power press Using the Avocent SPC it is possible to switch power for more than one system connected to RAS PutIn through a KVM switch To use this device you have to enter an username and a password which must exist on the SPC and have the privileg
90. this option is checked RAS PutIn will answer to SNMP requests Hint If a community is left blank you cannot perform the according request E g if you want to disable the possibility to reset RAS PutIn via SNMP then don t set a write community s Read Community This is the SNMP community which allows you to retrieve information via SNMP e Write Community This community allows you to set options and to reset RAS PutIn or the host via SNMP i e all that effects the host or RAS PutIn e System Location Enter a description of the physical location of the host The description will be used in reply to the SNMP request sysLocation 0 e System Contact Enter a contact person for the host The value will be used in reply to the SNMP request sysContact 0 e Enable SNMP Authentication Traps If this option is checked an SNMP trap will be sent in case somebody has tried to access RAS PutIn via SNMP using a wrong SNMP community e Enable RAS PutIn Authentication Traps If this options is checked an SNMP trap will be sent in case somebody has tried to login via 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 47 the Web front end Both successful and failed logins trials will be indicated Furthermore there will be notification about other security violations like trying to perform an action via Web front end for which a user has no permission e Enable Host Traps If this option is checked RAS PutIn will send SNMP traps whenever the host is reset power
91. time out value is configured using the next option e Hang up timeout The hang up time out measured in seconds Normally it is valid for outgoing connections only That means in case RAS PutIn is configured for callback In case the Enable hang up timer for incoming calls option is checked the time out will apply for incoming calls also e IP address range Addresses from this range will be assigned to RAS PutIn and the console computer during establishing an ISDN connection The first address will be used for RAS PutIn itself The range must enclose 3 addresses at least e Enable callback This enables the callback mechanism If you have callback entries configured see below RAS PutIn will reject any call from the configured number s and make a call to a number which can be configured too e Force callback Only callback connections are enabled if you enable this option That means nobody can dial in without callback This option has effect only if you have callbacks enabled e Calling This is the calling number the client that tries to dial into RAS PutIn 4ISDN is available for EMEA versions of RAS PutIn only 5 5 ADMINISTRATION 51 e Called If you want to call the caller back you have to enter his number here e User Password If RAS PutIn calls back these are the user name and the corresponding password for authentication on the console computer e Call back after x seconds The entry is marked as
92. ulting from use of Licensee s product not caused solely by faults in Licensed Software as provided by Blackbox Inc to Licensee Technical Support If you need help installing configuring or running RAS PutIn call your Blackbox OEM or VAD Technical Support representative We invite you to access Blackbox s Web site at http www blackbox com There you shall find all modifications made after the editorial deadline iii Contents The Quick Installation Guide Introduction 2 1 When the server is up and running e 2 2 When theserver is dead ea be Re EE ee RE Installation od Wperation Qvervigw s p ia s op ka eee ee Ae Se He a ea ee a 3 2 Connectors and Jumper sa nu ge ke RAE a ed a wi 3 2 1 Front Side Comnettors ocios cheek aa 3 2 2 Rear Side Connectors gt o cs sacs 66 be ee eusa a eee ee 3 3 Connecting RAS PutIn to the host system o 3 3 1 Connecting system management option o e 3302 Connecting PMI ophon s lt p ra sae eai e a K T 3 3 3 Connecting the Internal Reset Power Option 3 3 4 Connecting the External Reset Power Option 3 3 5 Connecting Ethernet cacas aa dact Kaiia e ae e N 3 3 5 1 10 Mbps Connection s s s s es sgos eee eee eee Sees 3 3 0 2 100 Mbps Conmettion s e e w mpa ed RE ERR EE ea 3 30 Connecting ISDN o a e poeg e gee e e R ee a E ae i N i a Configuration 4 1 Imtial Configuration gt s cos sos scrasa 020 d aaa e
93. ushing this button performs a reset of RAS PutIn The button is important for the initial configuration of RAS PutIn VGA Indicates that the VGA input is active and a video signal is received by RAS PutIn RUN Indicates whether the RAS PutIn system is running or not 100 Indicates that the Ethernet connection is in 100 Mbit mode FULL Indicates that the Ethernet connection is in full duplex mode ISDN Indicates that the ISDN subsystem is available and active GRAB Indicates that a remote user is logged onto RAS PutIn and the video engine is outputting data Using the connectors for video and keyboard mouse a local console might be connected simul taneously Rear Side Connectors Figure 1 2 on the next page SUB D 9 Serial 1 The standard serial connector is used in multiple ways 2 CHAPTER 1 THE QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE 99900 eocce p L J Serial 1 Serial 2 ISDN SERRE fe Keyboard Video Mouse Power Ethernet Figure 1 2 Rear Side Connectors e IPMI Version 1 5 connection to the host system using the IPMI Option cable e Serial output for modem dial in connection e Serial pass through via Telnet e Initial configuration SUB D 9 Serial 2 The serial connector 2 supports the internal and external power options SUB D 25 KVM The supplied Keyboard VGA Mouse extender cable has an aggregated SUB D 25 connector to RAS PutIn Power supply A power supply with the following parameters must be attached e Vol
94. via IPMI When IPMI is enabled Section 5 5 8 the power control section features the possibility to switch power or reset a system using IPMI see Figure 5 13 IPMI Power On IPMI Power Off IPMI Reset Figure 5 13 Power Control via IPMI 36 CHAPTER 5 USAGE Table 5 2 Remote reset and power button effects Button Description Reset Pressing this button is similar to pressing the reset button directly on the remote system see Figure 5 11 Be aware that pressing the reset button will result in unconditional and immediate cold start of the system This might damage open files and the file system itself Power short press A short press on the ATX button is normally caught by the running operating system that tries to initiate a controlled shutdown Usually this should always be the first action you try in case you would like to power off your system Only in case this is not working you should try the long press button Please note that after you have pressed this button the power state displayed in the administration panel won t immediately reflect the requested change A controlled shut down of the system may take up to some minutes You can observe the action caused by your button press using the Remote Console window or by reloading the Server Power Control panel Power long press This will unconditionally power off the system Even if you have submitted a short press before this will shut d
95. ws based operating systems you can configure a dial up network connection which defaults to the right settings like PPP The modem settings are part of serial settings panel Figure 5 22 on the preceding page e Enable modem on RS 232 Enable or disable the modem on the serial interface adapter of RAS PutIn In case it is enabled RAS PutIn tries to initialize the modem using an initial string of AT commands and waits for incoming connections e Serial line speed The speed RAS PutIn is communicating with the modem Most of all modems available today will support the default value of 115200 bps In case you are using an old modem and discovering problems try to lower this speed s Modem Init String The initialization string used by RAS PutIn to initialize the modem The default value will work with all modern standard modems directly connected to a telephone line In case you have a special modem or the modem is connected to a local telephone switch that requires a special dial sequence in order to establish a connection to the public telephone network you can change this setting by giving a new string Refer to the modem s manual about the AT command syntax e Client IP address This IP address will be assigned to your console computer during the PPP handshake 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 RAS PutIn and your console com
96. y The delay depends on the bandwidth of the line over which you are connected to RAS PutIn B 192 168 1 67 ServSwitch RAS PutIn Remote Console In 5 KB s Out 122 B s Ctrl Alt Delete 16 22 Console Norm Desktop size is 800 x 600 Papierkorb Figure 5 4 Remote Console window showing a Windows 2000 desktop screen With 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 For instance special keys on the German keyboard won t work anymore as expected but will result in their US English counterpart if you are using a German administration system but your host system uses a US English keyboard layout You can circumvent such problems by adjusting the keyboard of your remote system to the same mapping as your local one or by using the Soft Keyboard that is part of the Remote Console applet The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that tries to establish its own TCP connection to RAS PutIn The protocol that is run over this connection is not HTTP or HTTPS but a protocol called RFB Remote Frame Buffer Protocol Currently RFB tries to establish a connection to port number 443 Your local network environment must allow this connection to be made i e your firewall and in case you have a private internal network your NAT Network Address Translation settings must be configured accordingly In case RAS PutIn
97. y CD ROM including a RAS PutIn Installation and User Manual 2 1 WHEN THE SERVER IS UP AND RUNNING 7 b RAS PutIn utilities 3 RAS PutIn keyboard video mouse connection cable Sub D 25 4 NULL modem cable 5 RAS PutIn external power supply IPMI Option Item No 8400300 The IPMI Option consists of a serial cable SUB D 9 fe male SUB D 9 female for the connection between RAS PutIn and an IPMI V1 5 compliant serial management port on the remote system Internal Reset Power Option Item No 8400100 The internal reset power option see Figure 2 2 consists of a PC bracket with a Sub D 9 jack on the outside and 4x2 pin connector in the inner side The Sub D 9 jack is connected to the RAS PutIn Serial Port 2 The internal 4x2 pin connector allows to connect the reset and power on off switching signals of the main board to RAS PutIn Figure 2 2 shows the PC bracket Figure 2 2 Internal Reset Power Option PC bracket 2 1 When the server is up and running RAS PutIn gives you 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 You can also perform periodic maintenance of the server Using the Console Redirection Service you are able to do the following e Reboot the system a graceful shutdown e Watch the boot process e Boot the system from a separate partition to load the diagnostic environment
98. y Intel in 1995 Board Management Controller implements the IPMI based main board management functions Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol protocol for dynamically assigning IP config urations in local networks Domain Name System protocol used to locate computers on the Internet by their name Emergency Management Port provides remote emergency access and control of server resources EMP offers operating system independent fundamental remote manage ment access regardless of the server s current state or network availability Frequently Asked Questions Hypertext Transfer Protocol the protocol used between web browsers and servers Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure secure version of HTTP Intelligent Platform Management Interface Light Emitting Diode Management Information Base describes the structure of the management informa tion that can be accessed via SNMP The PS 2 device interface was developed by IBM and is used by many mice and keyboards Simple Network Management Protocol a widely used network monitoring and control protocol Secure Socket Layer encryption technology for the Internet used to provide secured data transmissions Super VGA A refinement of Video Graphics Array VGA that provides increased pitch and resolution performance Unshielded Twisted Pair a cable with two conductors twisted as a pair and bundled within the same outer PVC covering 68 APPENDIX A GLOSSARY B RAS Puti
99. y reason an unencrypted connection will be used If set to Force the applet tries to make an encrypted connec tion An error will be reported in case connection establish ment fails 5 5 10 2 Telnet Settings Table 5 5 explains the settings related to Telnet access Table 5 5 Telnet security settings Parameter Description Enable Telnet access If this option is enabled access over Telnet client is possible For higher security we recommend to disable Telnet access 5 5 10 3 IP Access Control This section explains the settings related to IP access control It is used to limit access to a distinguished number of clients only These clients will be identified by their IP address from which they are trying to build up a connection Refer also to Figure 5 29 on the page before Note The IP access control settings apply to the LAN interface only e Enable IP Access Control Enables access control based on IP source addresses e Default policy This option controls what to do with arriving IP packets that don t match any of the configured rules They can be accepted or dropped ATTENTION If you set this to DROP and you have no ACCEPT rules configured access to the Web front end over LAN is actually disabled To enable access again you can change the security settings via modem or ISDN dial in or by temporarily disabling IP access control with the initial configuration procedu
100. zontel Description Here you can provide a mode name which is displayed in the Remote Console if this custom mode is activated 5 3 5 Remote Console Settings The Remote Console settings allow you to customize the Remote Console window prior to its start see Figure 5 9 on page 34 Some of the parameters you might still change while the Remote Console is running while others have to be set in the Remote Console settings All the settings for the Remote Console window are user specific That means each user can individually customize the Remote Console for his needs Changing the settings for one user does not affect the settings for others e User select box This control will show the user ID for which the values are shown and for which changes will take effect You might change the settings of other users in case you have the necessary access rights 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 Using those settings it is possible to optimize the speed of the remote screen depending on the number of parallel users and the bandwidth of the connection line Modem ISDN DSL LAN etc 32 CHAPTER 5 USAGE e Transmission Encoding Automatic detection The encoding and the compression level is determinded automatically from the available bandwidth and the current content of the video image Transmiss

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