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Owner’s Manual

IP Remote Access Unit 

Model #: B050-000

The B050-000 provides remote KVM access and control. You can use the B050-000 to
manage and monitor components in your servers through a modem or LAN, even if your
network is down. The B050-000 offers a comprehensive hardware solution for server
management.

If you need help installing, configuring or running the B050-000 IP Remote Access Unit,
call a Tripp Lite Technical Support Representative at (773) 869-1234 or visit Tripp Lite's
website at: www.tripplite.com

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Page 1: ...ipp Lite s website at www tripplite com About the B050 000 Technical Support W arranty Registration Register online today for a chance to win a FREE Tripp Lite product www tripplite com warranty Tripp...

Page 2: ...chronization Host System Mouse Settings 24 Single and Double Mouse Mode 24 Recommended Mouse Settings 24 Video Modes 25 Resetting the B050 000 to its Factory Settings 25 Using the Serial Interface 25...

Page 3: ...istrator and multi server environment Combining the B050 000 with a KVM switch allows the user to access multiple remote servers over single remote console General Overview The B050 000 has peripheral...

Page 4: ...0 is connected via USB only and the Power Status LED does not stop blinking after one minute the B050 000 may not be receiving enough power via the USB port You must then attach the enclosed power sup...

Page 5: ...a CAT5 or CAT6 Ethernet cable 3 Connect the external power supply to the 5V power connector and power on the B050 000 Figure 1 3 Rear Side Connectors Warning The USB standard guarantees up to 500mA p...

Page 6: ...w Figure 1 4 B050 000 Setup Tool Windows Version If this initial configuration does not meet your local requirements adjust the values as needed You may either configure the B050 000 via serial interf...

Page 7: ...ndows Tool The MAC address of the B050 000 is displayed on the upper left corner of the screen To detect the MAC address manually press the Refresh Devices button The displayed MAC address is the same...

Page 8: ...ation To adjust the authentication settings enter your login as a Super User and change your password Super User Login Enter the login name of the super user The initial value is super Super User Pass...

Page 9: ...00 into your web browser The initial login settings are Note Changing these settings to user specific values is strongly recommended and can be done on the User Management page see the Section called...

Page 10: ...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 Video Settings in Options...

Page 11: ...sive and integrated system management The B050 000 offers convenient remote KVM access and control via LAN or Internet It captures digitizes and compresses video and transmits it with keyboard and mou...

Page 12: ...Redirection Service you can do the following Reboot the system a graceful shutdown Watch the boot process Boot the system from a separate partition to load the diagnostic environment Run special diagn...

Page 13: ...creen CMOS set up information Power cable detached power supply failure Server remains in power off state after power on command has been given CPU Controller main board failure Power supply is on but...

Page 14: ...administrator and multi server environment Combining one or more B050 000 with a single KVM switch allows access to multiple servers on a single remote console Connectors and Indicators General Overv...

Page 15: ...000 is connected via USB only and the Power Status LED does not stop blinking after one minute the B050 000 may not be receiving enough power via the USB port In that case attach the enclosed power su...

Page 16: ...ing a CAT5 or CAT6 Ethernet cable 3 Connect the external power supply to the 5V power connector and power on the B050 000 Figure 3 3 Rear Side Connectors Connecting the B050 000 to the Host System War...

Page 17: ...just to the appropriate operation mode automatically 10 Mbps Connection For 10BASE T Ethernet networks use category 5 UTP cable To establish a 10 Mbps connection the cable has to be connected to a 10B...

Page 18: ...r requirements the following describes the initial IP configuration that is necessary to access the B050 000 for the first time The setup tool is used to determine the IP address assigned to the B050...

Page 19: ...he upper left hand corner of the screen To detect the MAC address manually press the Refresh Devices button The displayed MAC address is the same MAC address printed on the white sticker placed on the...

Page 20: ...er The initial value is super Super User Password Enter the current password for the super user The initial value is pass New Super User Password Enter the new password for the Super User New Password...

Page 21: ...ion non dhcp bootp dhcp IP 192 168 1 22 Net mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 0 0 0 0 for none 0 0 0 0 IP Autoconfiguration With this option you can specify whether the B050 000 should get its network settin...

Page 22: ...you have connected the USB cable only then you will not have any remote keyboard access during the boot process of the host Please see the Section called Keyboard Mouse in Chapter 6 for more details...

Page 23: ...at the correct position on the screen This method takes more time than the Fast Sync and can be accessed with the appropriate item in the Remote Console Option menu entry Mouse Handling The Intellige...

Page 24: ...tions Navigate your mouse pointer into the upper left corner of the applet screen and move it slightly forth and back The mouse will be resynchronized If resynchronizing fails disable the mouse accele...

Page 25: ...e information above applies to the Double Mouse Mode where remote and local mouse pointers are visible and need to be synchronized The B050 000 also features another mode the Single Mouse Mode where o...

Page 26: ...Other interfaces are addressed in 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 If the b...

Page 27: ...our web browser Type in the address of the B050 000 you configured during the installation process The address used might be a plain IP address or a host and domain name in case you have given your B0...

Page 28: ...following table for the default settings Please note that the user super is not allowed to login via the serial interface of the B050 000 Navigation Once you ve logged into the B050 000 successfully t...

Page 29: ...e Front End Warning If there is no activity for half an hour the B050 000 will log you out automatically A click on one of the links will bring you back to the login screen This link logs out the curr...

Page 30: ...ent and your connection to 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 appropriate connection The r...

Page 31: ...ontrol Bar The upper part of the Remote Console window contains a control bar Using its elements you can see the status of the Remote Console and influence the local Remote Console settings A descript...

Page 32: ...ton Options Figure 5 6 Remote Console Options Menu A description of the options follows Monitor Only Toggles the Monitor Only filter on or off If the filter is switched to on no remote console interac...

Page 33: ...mouse handling offers two options for synchronizing the local and remote mouse pointer as explained in the Section called Mouse Keyboard and Video Configuration in Chapter 4 Figure 5 8 Remote Console...

Page 34: ...ideo output of the B050 000 is active and passing through the incoming signal from the host system The option Noise Filter defines how the B050 000 reacts to small changes in the video input signal A...

Page 35: ...ter picture quality you may try to change this setting together with the sampling phase Phase Defines the phase for video sampling used to control the display quality together with the setting for sam...

Page 36: ...es like F as well as combinations of keys such as Ctrl C or AltGr Shift F4 For a single key stroke you can click on the button with the desired character Single keys such as regular characters and num...

Page 37: ...37 Figure 5 11 Soft Keyboard Show Displays the Soft Keyboard Mapping Used for choosing the according language and country mapping of the Soft Keyboard Figure 5 12 Soft Keyboard Mapping 5 Usage...

Page 38: ...tion called Transmission Encoding in Chapter 6 Compression level You may select a value between 1 and 9 for the desired compression level with level 1 enabling the fastest compression and level 9 the...

Page 39: ...depth Sets the desired color depth You may select between 8 or 16 bit for Video Optimized compression level 0 or between 1 and 8 bit for compression level 1 to 9 The higher the color depth the more vi...

Page 40: ...this will lead to less transfer time of the motion picture Remote Console Status Line The status line shows both the console and the connection state On the left the size of the remote screen is displ...

Page 41: ...the B050 000 One or more users are connected to the Remote Console of the B050 000 Exclusive access is set for you Any other user may not access the remote host via Remote Console unless you disable...

Page 42: ...ection called Video in Chapter 6 for details and the data rate is reduced Currently the video picture with the best quality can be achieved with the settings 16 bit High Color in the Remote Console or...

Page 43: ...o mode is chosen In terms of transferred data there can be an improvement The compression plays an important role here You can choose a compression level from the sub menu Compression in the Options m...

Page 44: ...nsole Figure 6 1 KVM Console Remote Console Preview To open the KVM console either click on the menu entry on the left or on the console picture on the right To refresh the picture click on the Refres...

Page 45: ...on called Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI for configuration instructions If the B050 000 is configured to act as an IPMI client the Remote Power Control page will show three buttons Pow...

Page 46: ...or authentication are identical to those of the web interface That means the user management of the Telnet interface is entirely controlled with the functions of the web interface Once you have succes...

Page 47: ...rom the client Version Displays the release information Terminal Starts the terminal pass through mode for serial port 1 The key sequence esc exit switches back to the command mode The command has an...

Page 48: ...mage via Windows Share or SAMBA see the Section called Use Image on Windows Share SAMBA for details Then click on the button Upload to initiate the transfer of the chosen image file into the B050 000...

Page 49: ...dress On Windows 95 98 and Windows ME do not specify the IP address but the server name NetBIOS Name Share name The name of the share to be used Path to image The path of the image file on the share U...

Page 50: ...000 It is important to specify correct IP addresses and device names Otherwise the B050 000 may not be able to access the referenced the image file properly Leave the given file unmounted and it will...

Page 51: ...51 Figure 6 9 Explorer Context Menu Figure 6 10 Share Configuration Dialog 6 Menu Options...

Page 52: ...ebMin to set the correct parameters For additional options see the Section called Options for details Drive Redirection Note Driver redirect requires the B050 000 to be connected via the USB port to t...

Page 53: ...drive cache of the operating system of the remote host might contain older data This may confuse the remote host s operating system We recommend using the Drive Redirection with care especially the wr...

Page 54: ...0 you would like to connect to Port This is the network port By default B050 000 uses the remote console port 443 here You may change this value if you have changed the remote console port in your B05...

Page 55: ...rs are shown here Please note that the whole drive is shared with the remote computer not only one partition If you have a hard disk with more than one partition all drive letters that belong to this...

Page 56: ...gerous If both the remote and the local system try to write data on the same device it will certainly destroy the file system on the drive Please use this only when you re sure what you are doing 6 Me...

Page 57: ...before it is redirected That means that it tries to prevent the local operating system from accessing the drive as long as it is redirected This may also fail especially if a file on the drive is cur...

Page 58: ...may happen that the host system will hang on boot because of changes in the boot order or the boot manager LILO GRUB This case has been seen for some Windows versions 2000 XP Other OS may not be fully...

Page 59: ...ttp www fdos org ripcord rawrite CD ROM ISO 9660 Images UNIX and UNIX like OS Make use of dd to create an image file This is one of the original UNIX utilities and is included in every UNIX like OS UN...

Page 60: ...SO image file on your hard disk For example with Nero you choose Copy and Backup Then navigate to the Copy Disc section Select the CD ROM or DVD drive from which you would like to create an ISO image...

Page 61: ...Password Figure 6 20 Set Password To change your password enter the new password in the upper entry field Retype the password in the field below Click Apply to submit your changes 6 Menu Options User...

Page 62: ...ly after you have installed and accessed your B050 000 for the first time A full list of available options follows This list can only be seen by the Superuser Existing users Select an existing user fo...

Page 63: ...essing instructions and memory space To guarantee an acceptable response time we recommend not to exceed 25 users connected to the B050 000 at the same time The memory space that is available on the B...

Page 64: ...ly from the available bandwidth and the current content of the video image Pre configured The pre configured settings deliver the best result because of optimized adjustment of compression and color d...

Page 65: ...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...

Page 66: ...ndows and DOS that is always caught or the key sequence Control Backspace on Linux that can be used for terminating the X Server In order to define a new Button Key or to adjust an existing one have a...

Page 67: ...and or PS 2 interface you need the correct cabling between the managed host and the managing device If the managed host does not have USB keyboard support in the BIOS and you have connected the USB ca...

Page 68: ...nables the USB mouse type Choose an appropriate option from the selection box For a detailed description about the mouse type and recommended options for the different operating systems see the Sectio...

Page 69: ...to a constant amount of network traffic even if the 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...

Page 70: ...p If you choose none then IP auto configuration is disabled 6 Menu Options Warning The initial IP configuration is usually done directly at the host system using the special procedure described in Tab...

Page 71: ...Server in dot notation It will be used in case the Primary DNS Server cannot be contacted Miscellaneous Network Settings Remote Console And HTTPS port Port number at which the B050 000 s Remote Conso...

Page 72: ...tly LAN interface speed Depending on your network connection you may select a speed value for this interface To adjust the interface automatically choose autodetect default value If this selection res...

Page 73: ...73 Dynamic DNS Figure 6 27 Dynamic DNS A freely available Dynamic DNS service dyndns org can be used in the following scenario see Figure 6 28 Figure 6 28 Dynamic DNS Scenario 6 Menu Options...

Page 74: ...ngs according to your needs see below Enable Dynamic DNS This enables the Dynamic DNS service This requires a configured DNS server IP address Dynamic DNS server This is the server name where B050 000...

Page 75: ...called Certificate 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 a...

Page 76: ...that is unique for a particular B050 000 In order to do that the B050 000 is able to generate a new cryptographic key and the associated Certificate Signing Request CSR that needs to be certified by...

Page 77: ...a web browser but without the prefix http In case the name given here and the actual network name differ the browser will pop up a security warning when the B050 000 is accessed using HTTPS Organizati...

Page 78: ...ord Email The email address of a contact person that is responsible for the B050 000 and its security Key length This is the length of the generated key in bits 1024 Bits are supposed to be sufficient...

Page 79: ...h which the B050 000 is communicating with the modem Most modems available today will support the default value of 115 200 bps If you are using an old modem and discovering problems try to lower this...

Page 80: ...050 000 For more information about the Telnet interface you may have a look at the Section called Telnet Console Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI Figure 6 33 IPMI Generals You have an ad...

Page 81: ...I Settings you have to enter the IP address of this host system the user name of a valid IPMI account and password for this account You can also access other IPMI systems if you enter their IP address...

Page 82: ...ged to a selection of logging destinations see Figure 6 35 Each of those events belong to an event group which can be activated separately Warning There is currently no way to adjust the daylight savi...

Page 83: ...description strings as the internal log file and the mail subject is filled with the event group of the occurred log event In order to use this log destination you have to specify a SMTP server that h...

Page 84: ...information about this B050 000 and its current firmware and allows you to reset the device You may have a look at Figure 6 36 for an example The Data file for support allows you to download the B050...

Page 85: ...rm exclusive is added For more information about this option see the Section called Remote Console Control Bar in Chapter 5 To display the user activity the last column is used It contains either the...

Page 86: ...Before you can start updating the firmware of your B050 000 the new and uncompressed firmware file has to be accessible on the system that you use for connecting to the B050 000 Updating the firmware...

Page 87: ...ake about half a minute Resetting subdevices e g video engine will take a few seconds only and does not result in closing connections To reset a certain B050 000 functionality click on the button Rese...

Page 88: ...HTTP and 443 for both HTTPS and RFB have to be open the server providing the firewall has to accept incoming TCP connections on these ports 5 Remote console is unable to connect and displays a timeou...

Page 89: ...xt and the checkbox use for outgoing is set As an alternative you may also use a Mozilla based browser Mozilla FireFox 12 Every time I open a dialog box with some buttons the mouse pointers are not sy...

Page 90: ...name FAQ Frequently Asked Questions HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol One of the protocols used for communication between single computers especially between web browsers and web servers HTTPS Hyperte...

Page 91: ...placement for Telnet SSL Secure Socket Layer An encryption technology for the Internet used to provide secured data transmissions SVGA Super Video Graphics Array A refinement of the Video Graphics Arr...

Page 92: ...0 000 may not be able to detect them Resolution x y Refresh Rates Hz 640x340 70 85 640x400 56 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...

Page 93: ...x Virtual Media x x x User Management Change Password x x x User Management Users x KVM Settings User Console x w o Misc Settings x x KVM Settings Keyboard Mouse x x KVM Settings Video x x Device Set...

Page 94: ...s keyboard is shown in Figure E 1 However most modifier keys and other alphanumeric keys used for hotkey purposes in application programs are on a similar position no matter what language mapping you...

Page 95: ...CK BREAK INSERT HOME POS 1 PAGE_UP PAGE_DOWN DELETE DEL END UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT 95 Appendix E Key Codes Key Alias Key s NUM_LOCK NUMPAD0 NUMPAD1 NUMPAD2 NUMPAD3 NUMPAD4 NUMPAD5 NUMPAD6 NUMPAD7 NUMPAD8...

Page 96: ...1 VGA HD 15 Pin Assignment Pin Assignment 1 Red 9 USB 5V 2 Green 10 GND sync 3 Blue 11 USB_D 4 USB_D 12 SDA DDC 5 GND 13 HSYNC 6 GND red 14 VSYNC 7 GND green 15 SCL DDC 8 GND blue Table F 2 RJ45 Pin A...

Page 97: ...th attached replicator cable Housing Aluminium silver anodized Power Consumption up to 700mA Temperature Table G 2 Temperature Attribute Value Operating 0 C to 55 C 32 F to 131 F Storage 18 C to 70 C...

Page 98: ...digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment...

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