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LARA

Installation and User

Guide

Summary of Contents for LARA

Page 1: ...LARA Installation and User Guide...

Page 2: ...rademarks Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation Windows 98 Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation IBM AT VGA PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks an...

Page 3: ...indirect incidental or consequential whether arising from the design or use of this product or the support materials provided with the product No action or proceeding against Peppercon AG may be comme...

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Page 5: ...o the host system 11 3 3 1 Connecting system management option 11 3 3 2 Connecting IPMI option 12 3 3 3 Connecting the Internal Reset Power Option 13 3 3 4 Connecting the External Reset Power Option 1...

Page 6: ...Telnet Console 31 5 4 Server 31 5 4 1 Power Control 31 5 4 2 Power Control Settings 33 5 4 3 Keyboard Mouse Video Settings 35 5 4 4 KVM Settings 35 5 5 Administration 36 5 5 1 User Group Management 36...

Page 7: ...y Codes 69 D Pin Assignments 71 D 1 VGA HD 15 71 D 2 RJ 45 Connector Ethernet 71 D 3 RJ 45 Connector ISDN 72 D 4 Serial SUB D 9 Connector 1 72 D 5 Serial SUB D 9 Connector 2 72 D 6 KVM SUB D 25 Connec...

Page 8: ...viii Contents...

Page 9: ...rolled system 11 3 6 Connections of LARA with local console 12 3 7 Connecting LARA system management 12 3 8 Top view of internal reset power option 13 5 1 Internet Explorer showing the encryption key...

Page 10: ...DNS Scenario 43 5 23 Dynamic DNS configuration panel 43 5 24 SNMP settings 45 5 25 Serial Settings 46 5 26 LARA ISDN settings panel 50 5 27 Panel for uploading a new firmware 51 5 28 Panel to update a...

Page 11: ...tton effects 34 5 6 Keyboard Mouse Video Settings description 35 5 7 Description User Group Management 37 5 8 LARA user and group permissions 40 5 9 Network settings parameters 41 5 10 Dynamic DNS opt...

Page 12: ...xii List of Tables B 1 LARA Video Modes 67 C 1 Key Names 69...

Page 13: ...t Pushing this button performs a reset of LARA The button is important for the initial configuration of LARA VGA Indicates that the VGA input is active and a video signal is received by LARA RUN Indic...

Page 14: ...following steps in order to connect the KVM signals of the server system to LARA 1 Connect the SUB D 25 to PS2 PS2 Video cable to the SUB D 25 connector on LARA 2 Connect the purple PS 2 Keyboard jack...

Page 15: ...o connect to LARA After establishing a connection the following message appears LARA c Peppercon AG 2002 For initial IP configuration login as config Press F10 to resume 192 168 1 22 login Enter confi...

Page 16: ...t ones are the following Auto Adjust button If the video displayed is of bad quality or distorted in some way press this button and wait a few seconds while LARA tries to adjust itself for the best po...

Page 17: ...rovides a non intrusive solution for remote access and control Remote access and control software runs on the LARA embedded processors only but not on mission critical servers so that there is no inte...

Page 18: ...o access certain system parameters and to perform system actions like powering down the system or per forming a hard reset Modern server systems supporting the IPMI V1 5 specification provide a mode w...

Page 19: ...side The Sub D 9 jack is connected to the LARA Serial Port 2 The internal 4x2 pin con nector allows to connect the reset and power on off switching signals of the main board to LARA Figure 2 2 shows...

Page 20: ...failure 10 4 CPU fan failure 8 5 RAM failure 4 Using LARA administrators can determine which kind of serious hardware failure has occurred see Table 2 1 Table 2 1 Host system failures and how they ar...

Page 21: ...nd multi server environment as well Combining one or several LARAs with a KVM switched matrix allows to access multiple servers on a single remote console LARA is multi user capable i e up to 64 concu...

Page 22: ...thernet 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 Indicate...

Page 23: ...connector on LARA 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...

Page 24: ...eferred to as emergency management port LARA 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 fur...

Page 25: ...utton 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...

Page 26: ...ernet networks LARA 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...

Page 27: ...ed to configure a fixed IP assignment to the MAC address of LARA You can find the MAC address of your LARA on the outside of the shipping box and labeled on LARA s bottom side If the DHCP connection f...

Page 28: ...d you can quit with Enter to accept the pre assigned value In order to contact LARA from outside of your LAN you need to configure a gateway If you want to remove an already configured gateway enter 0...

Page 29: ...RA Video Modes LARA 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 LARA may not be...

Page 30: ...18 CHAPTER 4 CONFIGURATION...

Page 31: ...the primary interface of LARA is the HTTP interface this chapter is mainly evolving around this topic The other two interfaces are explained in the according subtopics section 5 5 4 on page 43 and sec...

Page 32: ...pe Navigator 7 0 or Mozilla 1 0 on Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux and other UNIX like Operating Systems Figure 5 1 Internet Explorer showing the encryption key length 5 2 Login in...

Page 33: ...LARA That means the current session will be terminated and you have to type username and password again to login Note The LARA will log you out automatically after there is no administration activity...

Page 34: ...ts a new login screen Please note that an automatic logout will be performed in case there was no activity for half an hour 5 3 Remote Console 5 3 1 Show Remote Console The Remote Console is the redir...

Page 35: ...work your NAT Network Address Translation settings must be configured accordingly In case LARA is connected to your local network environment and your connection to the internet is available using a p...

Page 36: ...age 28 for further information about this topic Options Monitor Mode 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...

Page 37: ...conjuction with the LARAm utility for Win32 systems Section 4 1 4 on page 17 If this program is activated on the controlled machine the remote mouse pointer may be hidden Options Local cursor Offers a...

Page 38: ...xt 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 ope...

Page 39: ...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 Figure 5 8 OSD picture menu The Misc subm...

Page 40: ...and offers the following options Color This submenu is used to set the foreground and background colors for the OSD text Appearance Controls the transparency of the OSD choose a value by pressing the...

Page 41: ...less extreme values or even work in this mode if mouse acceleration is turned off In this mode all synchronization options perform a fast sync Limitations of the mouse synchronization While the intell...

Page 42: ...if pressed in the Remote Console see Section 5 3 4 on page 28 for more information The key codes are listed in Appendix C on page 69 Transmission Encoding The Transmission Encoding setting allows chan...

Page 43: ...you can also pre install the JVM on your administration machine The software is available on the CD that is delivered along with LARA Pressing the Apply button finally changes the values permanently i...

Page 44: ...or about 4 seconds As shown in Figure 5 14 on the next page these two modes are supported separately Table 5 5 on page 34 explains the different effects Note The prerequisite for the remote power rese...

Page 45: ...s for switching each port of the external power control directly Select the appropriate port and decide whether to power it off or on 5 4 2 Power Control Settings Figure 5 16 on the next page shows th...

Page 46: ...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...

Page 47: ...r so you can still move the mouse even if its not entirely synchronous To use the mouse synchronization process again turn off this option Enable local video port This options decides if the video out...

Page 48: ...e see Section 5 2 2 on page 21 LARA uses separate mouse synchronization settings see section 5 3 4 on page 28 and video settings see Section 5 3 3 on page 26 for each port Note It is still possible to...

Page 49: ...d your LARA Figure 5 19 shows the User Group Management panel of the LARA front end Its use will be described in Table 5 7 and in the following text Figure 5 19 User Group Management Table 5 7 Descrip...

Page 50: ...ctions will describe how to add change and delete users Add User Fill out the fields New user name Full user name Password and Confirm password as shown in Figure 5 19 on the preceding page Optionally...

Page 51: ...ton 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...

Page 52: ...he top of the User Group Permissions panel see Figure 5 20 on the preceding page The selection list will show only users and groups for which you have the right to change their permissions Next clicki...

Page 53: ...ange the settings remotely make sure all the values are correct and you still have an option to access the LARA Figure 5 21 LARA network settings Table 5 9 Network settings parameters Parameter Descri...

Page 54: ...t notation It will be used in case the Primary Time Server can t be contacted Remote Console HTTPS port Port number at which LARA s Remote Console server and HTTPS server are listening If left empty t...

Page 55: ...DNS and change the settings according to your needs see Table 5 10 on the next page Note LARA has its own independent real time clock Make sure the time setting of LARA is correct This can be achieve...

Page 56: ...er at this time Check interval This is the interval for reporting again to the Dynamic DNS server by LARA MAC address IP address Netmask Gateway of LAN interface Configured users Currently active user...

Page 57: ...ion of the physical location of the host The description will be used in reply to the SNMP request sysLoca tion 0 System Contact Enter a contact person for the host The value will be used in reply to...

Page 58: ...hich 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 5 5 5 Serial Settings The LARA Seri...

Page 59: ...vileges to switch power for each port 5 5 6 Modem Settings LARA offers remote access using a telephone line in addition to the standard access over the built in Ethernet adapter The modem needs to be...

Page 60: ...alue will work in most cases 5 5 7 ISDN Settings In addition to the standard interfaces LARA offers remote access using an ISDN connection4 Logically connecting to LARA using an ISDN line means nothin...

Page 61: ...u enable this option That means nobody can dial in without callback This option has effect only if you have callbacks enabled Calling This is the calling number the client that tries to dial into LARA...

Page 62: ...tries only I 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 t...

Page 63: ...it is checked whether it is a valid firmware file and whether there were any transmission errors In case of any error the Upload Firmware function will be aborted Figure 5 27 Panel for uploading a ne...

Page 64: ...elligent 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 th...

Page 65: ...em cable is used for connection 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 side...

Page 66: ...tton Clear Event Log you can delete all entries in the SEL repository Status via IPMI Figure 5 31 Example of IPMI State panel The Status via IPMI function shows the current values and the min max thre...

Page 67: ...able 5 16 explains the possible adjustments related to the usage of SSL Table 5 16 Security parameters Parameter Description Force HTTPS If this option is enabled access to the Web front end is only p...

Page 68: ...ted connection An error will be reported in case connection establishment fails Telnet Settings Table 5 17 explains the settings related to Telnet access Table 5 17 Telnet security settings Parameter...

Page 69: ...ew 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 gi...

Page 70: ...LARA 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...

Page 71: ...tion machine with the Download CSR button see Figure 5 34 2 Send the saved CSR to a CA for certification You will get the new certificate from the CA after a more or less complicated traditional authe...

Page 72: ...rmation like the serial number etc You may send this information along together with a support request It will help us troubleshooting your problem 5 6 2 The LARA SNMP MIB This link allows you to down...

Page 73: ...used to control or display some parameters In ter minal 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...

Page 74: ...62 CHAPTER 5 USAGE...

Page 75: ...ozilla Don t use https or upgrade your Browser Q 005 The Remote Console window can t connect to LARA A 005 Possibly a firewall prevents access to the Remote Console Make sure the TCP port numbers 443...

Page 76: ...64 CHAPTER 6 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS...

Page 77: ...tate or network availability FAQ Frequently Asked Questions HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol the protocol used between web browsers and servers HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure secure version...

Page 78: ...66 APPENDIX A GLOSSARY...

Page 79: ...e If done so LARA may not be able to detect them Table B 1 LARA 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...

Page 80: ...68 APPENDIX B LARA VIDEO MODES...

Page 81: ...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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Bsp Esc F1 F2 F3 F...

Page 82: ...SCAPE ESC F1 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 NUM LOCK NUMPAD0 NUMPAD1 NUMPAD2 NUMPAD3 NUMPAD4 NUMPAD5 NUMP...

Page 83: ...5 V 2 Green 10 GND sync 3 Blue 11 Not connected 4 Not connected 12 SDA DCC 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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pin Assi...

Page 84: ...connected 4 RX 8 Not connected D 4 Serial SUB D 9 Connector 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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 1 2 3 4...

Page 85: ...ment 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 RS...

Page 86: ...74 APPENDIX D PIN ASSIGNMENTS...

Page 87: ...se problems with electrical power servicing not authorized by Peppercon usage not in accordance with product instructions failure to perform required preventive maintenance and problems caused by use...

Page 88: ...business information or any other pecuniary loss arising out of the use of or inability to use this product even if Peppercon has been advised of the possibility of such damages In any case Peppercon...

Page 89: ...nit Width 105 mm 1 4 1900 Length Box 223 mm Length Box with connectors 233 Weigth 700 g F 2 Environmental Temperature Operating 0 C to 40 C 32 F to 131 F Storage 18 C to 70 C 20 F to 158 F Humidity Op...

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