Intel® Server System R2000WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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KVM redirection includes a “soft keyboard” function. The “soft keyboard” is used to simulate an entire
keyboard that is connected to the remote system. The “soft keyboard” functionality supports the following
layouts: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
The KVM-redirection feature automatically senses video resolution for best possible screen capture and
provides high-performance mouse tracking and synchronization. It allows remote viewing and configuration
in pre-boot POST and BIOS setup, once BIOS has initialized video.
Other attributes of this feature include:
Encryption of the redirected screen, keyboard, and mouse
Compression of the redirected screen.
Ability to select a mouse configuration based on the OS type.
Support user definable keyboard macros.
KVM redirection feature supports the following resolutions and refresh rates:
640x480 at 60Hz, 72Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz, 100Hz
800x600 at 60Hz, 72Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz
1024x768 at 60Hx, 72Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz
1280x960 at 60Hz
1280x1024 at 60Hz
1600x1200 at 60Hz
1920x1080 (1080p) at 60Hz
1920x1200 (WUXGA+) at 60Hz
1650x1080 (WSXGA+) at 60Hz
11.3.2
Remote Console
The Remote Console is the redirected screen, keyboard and mouse of the remote host system. To use the
Remote Console window of your managed host system, the browser must include a Java* Runtime
Environment plug-in. If the browser has no Java support, such as with a small handheld device, the user can
maintain the remote host system using the administration forms displayed by the browser.
The Remote Console window is a Java Applet that establishes TCP connections to the BMC. The protocol
that is run over these connections is a unique KVM protocol and not HTTP or HTTPS. This protocol uses
ports #7578 for KVM, #5120 for CDROM media redirection, and #5123 for Floppy/USB media redirection.
When encryption is enabled, the protocol uses ports #7582 for KVM, #5124 for CDROM media redirection,
and #5127 for Floppy/USB media redirection. The local network environment must permit these
connections to be made, that is, the firewall and, in case of a private internal network, the NAT (Network
Address Translation) settings have to be configured accordingly.
11.3.3
Performance
The remote display accurately represents the local display. The feature adapts to changes to the video
resolution of the local display and continues to work smoothly when the system transitions from graphics to
text or vice-versa. The responsiveness may be slightly delayed depending on the bandwidth and latency of
the network.
Enabling KVM and/or media encryption will degrade performance. Enabling video compression provides the
fastest response while disabling compression provides better video quality.
For the best possible KVM performance, a 2Mb/sec link or higher is recommended.
