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D-Link DKVM-IP1

1 Port KVM Switch

Over IP

Manual

Version 1.00

Summary of Contents for DKVM-IP1

Page 1: ...D Link DKVM IP1 1 Port KVM Switch Over IP Manual Version 1 00...

Page 2: ...figuration via DHCP server 12 4 1 2 Initial configuration via serial console 13 4 1 3 Keyboard Mouse and Video configuration 14 4 1 3 1 DKVM IP1 switch keyboard settings 14 4 1 3 2 Remote Mouse Settin...

Page 3: ...1 6 4 1 User Console 41 6 4 2 Keyboard Mouse 44 6 4 3 Video 45 6 5 Network 46 6 5 1 Network 46 6 5 2 Dynamic DNS 48 6 5 3 Security 50 6 5 4 Certificate 51 6 5 5 Serial Port 53 6 5 6 Date And Time 55 6...

Page 4: ...h of the PC and the host port of the DKVM IP1 switch 6 Connect one purple end of 3 in one cable to the PS 2 mouse port on the computer and the other end of 3 in one cable to the host PS 2 mouse port o...

Page 5: ...press ESC You will see some device information and a prompt Enter the command config and press Enter After waiting a few moments you may configure IP auto configuration IP address net mask and defaul...

Page 6: ...1 2 Top part of the Remote Console There are some options to choose from and the important ones are the following Auto Adjust button If the video displayed is of bad quality or distorted in some way...

Page 7: ...is recommended to receive the best video quality DKVM IP1 switch will accept video streams up to 110 MHz dot clock This results in a screen resolution of 1280x1024 pixels with a frame rate of 60 Hz 2...

Page 8: ...se access over IP and analogous telephone line modem needed z BIOS level access z SSL encryption z No impact on server or network performance z Automatically senses video resolution for best possible...

Page 9: ...10BASE T Ethernet uses Category 3 4 5 5E 6 UTP 100BASE T Ethernet uses Category 5 5E 6 UTP Reset button 1 Keyboard Emulation PS 2 Mouse Emulation PS 2 VGA Resolution Local 1600 X1200 Remote 1280 X1024...

Page 10: ...2 0 Cable USB A B cable CAT5 5E 6 Straight Through UTP STP Cable 8P8C 2 8 LED Indicators LED Indicator Color Status Description Solid Properly connected to the network Green Blinking Sending or Receiv...

Page 11: ...transmitted with the TCP IP protocol family DKVM IP1 switch can be used in a multi administrator and multi server environment as well Attaching one or several DKVM IP1 switches to a KVM switch matrix...

Page 12: ...e Step 5 Connect a VGA cable 15 pin HDDB Male Male with the Male side to both of the PC and the host of the DKVM IP1 switch Step 6 Connect one end to the PS 2 mouse port on the computer and the other...

Page 13: ...T connection The adapter can sense the connection speed and will adjust to the appropriate operation mode automatically 3 2 1 1 10 Mbps Connection For 10BASE T Ethernet networks the Ethernet adapter u...

Page 14: ...is wired appropriately for a standard 100BASE TX adapter Align the RJ 45 plug with the notch on the adapter s connector and insert it into the adapter s connector 3 3 Scenario of connecting DKVM IP1...

Page 15: ...nected If a DHCP server is found it may provide a valid IP address gateway address and net mask Before you connect the device to your local subnet be sure to complete the corresponding configuration o...

Page 16: ...ve the changes enter an user name and an according password Then press the Setup Device button Authentication To adjust the authentication settings enter your login as a super user and change your pas...

Page 17: ...figuration is disabled and subsequently you will be asked for the following network settings IP address The IP address the DKVM IP1 switch uses This option is only available if IP auto configuration i...

Page 18: ...options menu or press the mouse synchronization hotkey sequence in case you defined one Intelligent Sync If the fast sync does not work or the mouse settings have been changed on the host system use...

Page 19: ...remote mouse pointer is visible Activate this mode in the open Remote Console and click into the window area The local mouse pointer will be hidden and the remote one can be controlled directly To lea...

Page 20: ...ged host system the browser has to come with a Java Runtime Environment version 1 1 or higher If the browser has no Java support such as on a small handheld device you are still able to maintain your...

Page 21: ...main name in the case where you have given your DKVM IP1 switch a symbolic name in the DNS For instance type the following in the address line of your browser when establishing an unsecured connection...

Page 22: ...ookies or else login is not possible Navigation Having logged into the DKVM IP1 switch successfully the main page of the DKVM IP1 switch appears see Figure 5 3 This page consists of three parts each o...

Page 23: ...1 switch controls Figure 5 4 Remote Console The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that tries to establish its own TCP connection to the DKVM IP1 switch The protocol that is run over this connecti...

Page 24: ...keys on the German keyboard will not work as expected Instead the keys will result in their US English counterpart You can circumvent such problems by adjusting the keyboard of your remote system to t...

Page 25: ...essary when using accelerated mouse settings on the host system In general there is no need to change mouse settings on the host Single Double mouse mode Switches between the Single Mouse Mode where o...

Page 26: ...s Menu Scaling Mouse Handling The submenu for mouse handling offers two options for synchronizing the local and the remote mouse pointer Fast Sync The fast synchronization is used to correct a tempora...

Page 27: ...IP1 switch is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system The option Noise Filter defines how DKVM IP1 switch reacts to small changes in the video input signal A large filter...

Page 28: ...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 mov...

Page 29: ...typical example is a German localized system that uses an US English keyboard mapping In this case you have to change the Local Keyboard setting to the right language manually Hotkeys Opens a list of...

Page 30: ...sion of data Therefore compression level 0 no compression uses only 16 Bit color depth At lower bandwidths only 4 Bit 16 colors and 2 Bit 4 gray scales are recommended for typical desktop interfaces P...

Page 31: ...g Out network traffic are visible in kb s If compressed encoding is enabled a value in brackets displays the compressed transfer rate Figure 5 17 Status line transfer rate For more information about E...

Page 32: ...DKVM IP1 switch firmware features a Telnet server that enables a user to connect via a standard Telnet client In case the Telnet program is using a VT 100 VT 102 or VT 220 terminal or an according emu...

Page 33: ...line mode and the terminal mode The command line mode is used to control or display some parameters In terminal mode the pass through access to serial port 1 is activated if the serial settings were m...

Page 34: ...4 Select Image File The maximum image size is limited to 1 44MB To use a larger image mount this image via Windows Share or SAMBA see the Section called Use Image on Windows Share SAMBA for details Se...

Page 35: ...your login Password optional If necessary specify the password for the given user name To register the specified file image and its location click on the button Set The specified image file is suppose...

Page 36: ...e settings for the selected directory Activate the selected directory as a share Select Sharing this folder Choose an appropriate name for the share You may also add a short description for this folde...

Page 37: ...cified output file tmp floppy image Adjust both parameters exactly to your needs input device etc MS Windows You can use the tool RawWrite for Windows It is included on the CD ROM shipped with DKVM IP...

Page 38: ...h parameters exactly to your needs input device etc MS Windows To create the image file use your favorite CD imaging tool Copy the whole contents of the disc into one single image file on your hard di...

Page 39: ...6 2 3 Drive redirection Figure 6 12 Selecting Drive Redirection 6 2 3 1 Driver Installation Please follow the KVM Vision Viewer Setup Wizard step by step to install the driver from the attached CD RO...

Page 40: ...37 Figure 5 17 KVM Vision Viewer Setup step 5 1 5 5 5 4 5 3 5 2...

Page 41: ...vice Name Enter a name to your device Network Address Enter an IP address the DKVM IP1 switch uses Authentication Port This is a fixed number 443 Username The factory default Username is admin Passwor...

Page 42: ...e Redirection Setting select Figure 5 20 Drive Redirection dialog Drive to redirect Select the local drive you want to share with the remote computer which could be Floppy disc CD ROMs USB Sticks and...

Page 43: ...unset and no file image will be found it may happen that the host Warning 1 Drive Redirection is only possible with Windows 2000 and the latter version 2 The Drive Redirection works on a low SCSI leve...

Page 44: ...pe the password in the filed below Click Apply to submit your changes 6 3 2 Users Figure 6 13 Set User The DKVM IP1 switch comes with 2 pre configured user accounts that have fixed permissions The acc...

Page 45: ...Remote Control Remote Power z z Remote Control Telnet Console z z z Virtual Media z z z User Management Change Password z z z User Management Users z KVM Settings User Console z w o Misc Settings z z...

Page 46: ...s deliver the best result because of optimized adjustment of compression and colour depth for the indicated network speed Manually Allows to adjust both compression rate and the colour depth individua...

Page 47: ...d 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 JV...

Page 48: ...xamples 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 keycode k...

Page 49: ...extendend by three additional windows keys Generic 106 Key PC for a japanese keyboard and Apple Macintosh for the Apple Macintosh USB Mouse Type Enables USB mouse type Choose between MS Windows 2000 o...

Page 50: ...input signal All in all the default setting should be suitable for most situations Force Composite Sync Required for Sun Computers When connecting the device directly to rather old Sun computer with c...

Page 51: ...erver For DHCP select dhcp and for BOOTP select bootp accordingly If you choose none then IP auto configuration is disabled IP address IP address in the usual dot notation Subnet Mask The net mask of...

Page 52: ...ng the Telnet Gateway see the Section called Telnet Console Disable Setup Protocol Enable this option to exclude the DKVM IP1 switch from the setup protocol Setup protocol is a proprietary layer 2 MAC...

Page 53: ...IP1 switch 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...

Page 54: ...that is provided by the Dynamic DNS Server use the whole name including the domain e g testserver dyndns org not just the actual hostname Username You have registered this username during your manual...

Page 55: ...ficate KVM encryption This option controls the encryption of the RFB protocol RFB is used by the Remote Console to transmit both the screen data to the administrator machine and keyboard and mouse dat...

Page 56: ...o that the DKVM IP1 switch is able to generate a new cryptographic key and the associated Certificate Signing Request CSR that needs to be certified by a certification authority CA A certification aut...

Page 57: ...name that is used to access the DKVM IP1 switch 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 whe...

Page 58: ...ishment 6 5 5 Serial Port Figure 6 25 Serial Port The DKVM IP1 switch Serial Settings Figure 6 25 allows you to specify what device is connected to the serial port and how to use it Configuration or c...

Page 59: ...onnection 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 Modem server IP address This IP address will be ass...

Page 60: ...ust it again after DKVM IP1 switch loses power for more than a few minutes To avoid this you can use a NTP timeserver which sets up the internal clock automatically to the current UTC time Because NTP...

Page 61: ...tic link have to be exported to write all logging data to a file that is located there To write logging data from more than one DKVM IP1 switch devices to only one NFS share you have to define a file...

Page 62: ...evice Internal log file cleared by user device Security Violation security Host Power host Host Reset host Connection to Remote Console failed reason console several Connection to client established c...

Page 63: ...tion together with a support request It will help us to locate and solve your reported problem Figure 6 32 Connected Users Figure 6 31 displays the DKVM IP1 activity From left to right the connected u...

Page 64: ...ss will take about half a minute Resetting sub devices e g video engine will take some seconds only and do not result in closing connections 6 6 2 Even log Figure 6 33 Event Log List Figure 6 33 displ...

Page 65: ...mission errors In case of any error the Upload Firmware function will be aborted Secondly if everything went well you see the Update Firmware panel The panel shows you the version number of the curren...

Page 66: ...ivate a newly updated firmware It will close all current connections to the administration console and to the Remote Console The whole process will take about half a minute Resetting sub devices e g v...

Page 67: ...l the IP infrastructure of your LAN like routers etc is correctly configured Without a ping functioning DKVM IP1 switch can t work either Q 006 Special key combinations e g ALT F2 ALT F3 are intercept...

Page 68: ...eration is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received Including interference that may cause undesired...

Page 69: ...A Pin Assignments A 1 VGA HD 15 A 2 RJ 45 Connector Ethernet A 3 RJ 45 Connector ISDN...

Page 70: ...ey 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...

Page 71: ...MINUS EQUALS LESS SLASH BACK SPACE TAB ENTER CAPS LOCK BACK SLASH LSHIFT SHIFT RCTRL RSHIFT LCTRL CTRL LALT ALT SPACE ALTGR ESCAPE ESC F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 PRINTSCREEN SCROLL LOCK BR...

Page 72: ...1 lists the video modes DKVM IP1 switch supports Please don t use other custom video settings besides of these If done so DKVM IP1 switch may not be able to detect them Resolution x y Refresh Rates H...

Page 73: ...D Rack mount kit installation diagram...

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