This screen includes the Capabilities, Policies and Alert Destination buttons. The Capabilities and Policies buttons, when
selected, present a pop-up window that must be refreshed in order to receive the most current information. The Alert
Destination button also presents a pop-up window. This window allows you to assign the IP address, destination selector and
channel for the Intel® Node Manager to send alerts. It also indicates if the receiver is registered.
The Intel Node Manager is supported by the following Service Processors:
•
Dell® iDRAC8
•
FSC iRMC S4
•
Lenovo® IMM2
•
Dell® iDRAC7
•
Dell® DCS
•
Cisco® USC-C220
7.2 UMIQ Modules
Available UMIQ modules can be viewed under the Targets tab. From the sidebar, click on a UMIQ module to view its
settings. Click
Connect
to open a KVM session with the selected UMIQ module.
To view available UMIQ modules:
1.
From the sidebar, click
UMIQ
and then click on a target to view its status and the power status.
2.
Click
Connect
to open a KVM session with the target.
7.3 KVM Session Optimization
The UMIQ module performs analog-to-digital video conversion, and the session quality will be subject to cleanliness of the
video signal coming from the server.
A poor quality session will exhibit blocky video and extremely slow mouse response.
To improve session performance:
1.
In the KVM viewer, click
Tools - Automatic Video Adjustment
to calibrate the A/D converter to the video signal
coming from the server video card.
2.
To identify a KVM session that is slow due to unclean video signals, click
Tools - Manual Video Adjustment
. A
clean video signal will create 0 Pkts/Sec. on the performance monitor when there is not any activity on the
target server.
NOTE: Adjusting the screen resolution and screen refresh rate can have a significant effect on the cleanliness of the
video signal and the speed of the resulting KVM session. For best results, try different combinations of these two
settings followed by an auto video adjustment to improve the session speed.
The amount of video input plays a big role in the speed of KVM sessions. Lower screen resolutions will be faster than higher
screen resolutions. Decreasing the color depth and the screen scaling will also decrease the amount of KVM session data
being transported and will increase session speed.
If the above optimization options are ineffective at improving session speeds the Video Noise Control setting can be
enabled, which will increase session speed by ignoring small video changes. The only negative to this setting is that it can
increase the appearance of video “blocks”. Also take note of the other settings that can be configured for KVM targets
globally or individually.
The following information is an example of what is possible but not guaranteed since every target and every network will be
different. You will also note that some of the metrics are not entirely analogous (that is, FPS vs. Pkts/Sec.) Also, the
bandwidth usage does not reflect the quality/fluidity of the session (the KVM session was much smoother and better than
the vKVM).
Appliance KVM session in a 100 Mbps LAN environment:
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KVM window resolution 1280x1024 @70 Hz (Windows Server)
•
Zero screen movement = 0 pkts/sec (avg. 0.7 Kbps download | 0.5 Kbps upload)
•
Continuous mouse circles movement on screen = 35 pkts/sec (avg. 216 Kbps download | 247 Kbps upload)
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