Intel® Server Board S2600WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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8.3
Advanced Management Feature Support
The integrated baseboard management controller has support for advanced management features which are
enabled when an optional Intel RMM4 Lite is installed. The Intel RMM4 Lite add-on offers convenient, remote
KVM access and control through LAN and internet. It captures, digitizes, and compresses video and transmits
it with keyboard and mouse signals to and from a remote computer. Remote access and control software
runs in the integrated baseboard management controller, utilizing expanded capabilities enabled by the Intel
RMM4 Lite hardware.
Key features of the Intel RMM4 Lite add-on include:
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KVM redirection from either the dedicated management NIC or the server board NICs used for man-
agement traffic and up to two KVM sessions. KVM automatically senses video resolution for best pos-
sible screen capture, high performance mouse tracking, and synchronization. It allows remote viewing
and configuration in pre-boot POST and BIOS setup.
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Media redirection intended to allow system administrators or users to mount a remote IDE or USB
CDROM, floppy drive, or a USB flash disk as a remote device to the server. Once mounted, the remote
device appears to the server just like a local device, allowing system administrators or users to install
software (including operating systems), copy files, update BIOS, or boot the server from this device.
8.3.1
Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Redirection
The BMC firmware supports keyboard, video, and mouse redirection (KVM) over LAN. This feature is available
remotely from the embedded web server as a Java* applet. This feature is only enabled when the Intel®
RMM4 Lite is present. The client system must have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6.0 or later to
run the KVM or media redirection applets.
The BMC supports an embedded KVM application (Remote Console) that can be launched from the
embedded web server from a remote console. USB1.1 or USB 2.0 based mouse and keyboard redirection are
supported. It is also possible to use the KVM redirection (KVM-r) session concurrently with media redirection
(media-r). This feature allows a user to interactively use the keyboard, video, and mouse functions of the
remote server as if the user were physically at the managed server. KVM redirection console supports the
following keyboard layouts: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
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:
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Encryption of the redirected screen, keyboard, and mouse
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Compression of the redirected screen.
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Ability to select a mouse configuration based on the OS type.
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Support for user definable keyboard macros.
KVM redirection feature supports the following resolutions and refresh rates:
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640x480 at 60 Hz, 72 Hz, 75 Hz, 85 Hz
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800x600 at 60 Hz, 72 Hz, 75 Hz, 85 Hz
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1024x768 at 60 Hz, 72 Hz, 75 Hz, 85 Hz
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1152x864 at 75 Hz
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1280x800 at 60 Hz
