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IP*
OmniView 5000HQ
User Manual
8820-00058 F1DP101C
*OmniView is a registered trademark of Belkin International, Inc.
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Table O f C On Ten Ts t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6.3 Access Permissions tab.................................17 6.4 Saving a user..........................................18 1.1 Key features............................................1 6.4.1 Deleting a user .....................................
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Table O f C On Ten Ts t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 8.4.2 Performance.........................................38 11.1.5 RDP ...............................................59 8.4.3 Mouse..............................................38 11.1.6 SSH ...............................................60 8.5 KVM Ports tab.........................................39 11.1.7 VNC ...............................................61 8.6 Targets................
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Table O f C On Ten Ts t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 14 accessing the s ystem as a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 17 Unit Mainten .ance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 . 14.1 Power column ........................................81 17.1 Date & Time tab .......................................95 14.2 Status column ........................................80 17.2 Network tab . . .
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InTr ODUCTIOn t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 about this User Manual This User Manual provides installation and operation instructions for the OmniView IP 5000 HQ system produced by Belkin International, Inc. It is intended for system administrators and network managers, and assumes that readers have general understanding of networks, LDAP, hardware, and software. All information in this User Manual is subject to change without prior notice
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InTr ODUCTIOn t t a ab blle o e of f cc o on nt te en nt ts s s se eccttiion ons s 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 1 16 6 17 17 1 18 8 19 19 2 20 0 21 21 1 .2 system components 1 .4 system diagram The OmniView IP 5000HQ system comes with the following: The diagram below gives a brief outline of the OmniView IP 5000HQ system setup. The “Understanding the System” section on page 5 • OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager appliance explains the system setup in more deta
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Pre-InsT alla TIOn G UIDel Ines t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ® ® Prepare a list of all OmniView IP 5000HQ system components. You will n ote! f or Windows XP, 2003 server, Vista , and 2008 server need this information to configure the system. For Windows XP, 2003 Server, Vista, and 2008 Server, deactivate Appendix A (a separate file on this CD) contains three lists of the details “Enhanced pointer precision”. To do so: you need to prepare
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Pre-InsT alla TIOn G UIDel Ines t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2 . 1 access services details 2 . 1 . 1 adding user-defined access services Besides the Belkin OmniView KVM-over-IP devices mentioned above, You can also add your own Access Services, explained on page 65. you can connect to targets via the following Access Services through OmniView IP 5000HQ: • Belkin Serial Console Server • Web • ILO • RDP • SSH • VNC • Telnet • VMware
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Un Ders Tan DIn G THe s ys TeM – an OVer VIeW t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 The figure below shows a typical OmniView IP 5000HQ application. 3 . 1 Creating users An administrator can create users with two different possible permission types: • Administrator • User A user can be a full user or just view only. These permission types are explained fully in the “Account policy” section. In the example below, four users are created with vari
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Un Ders Tan DIn G THe s ys TeM – an OVer VIeW t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3 .2 f orming users into groups 3 .3 Creating targets You can form users into groups. In the example below, three users are An administrator creates targets corresponding to the physical servers formed into the Finance group. Note! Groups can contain users with connected to the IP devices, explained in the “Configuring Targets” different levels of user permissions
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Un Ders Tan DIn G THe s ys TeM – an OVer VIeW t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3 .4 f orming targets into sets 3 .5 associating a user group with a target set Targets can be formed into sets. For example, you can create a set of You can then associate the user group with the target set, thus giving all financial servers. In the example below, three targets are formed into access rights to all the targets in the set to all members of the group.
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Un Ders Tan DIn G THe s ys TeM – an OVer VIeW t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 note! Although users are members of the same group, they can have 3 .6 access services different access permissions to targets. For example, some could be The Access Services feature supports a wide range of remote access users allowing them to control the targets, and some could be view technologies. This enables the assignment of multiple services to a only, le
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Un Ders Tan DIn G THe s ys TeM – an OVer VIeW t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 • VNC - Virtual Network Computing. VNC is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol. VNC is platform- independent—a VNC viewer on any operating system usually connects to a VNC server on any other operating system. There are clients and servers for almost all GUI operating systems. • Telnet - Tel ecommunication ne Twork. Telnet is a network
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seTTIn G UP THe s ys TeM t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Set up the Belkin KVM-over-IP systems according to their user manuals’ Also in the OmniView IP HQ section in Figure 10, specify how the instructions. In order to be managed by OmniView IP 5000HQ, all OmniView IP 5000HQ server detects the IP device. This can be done Belkin KVM-over-IP devices must be configured to be OmniView IP either by: HQ-enabled. This is done from the “Network Conf
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seTTIn G UP THe s ys TeM t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 4 . 1 Connecting the OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager 4 .2 . 1 Changing the OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager network parameters ® 1. Connect the OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager to the network as follows: 1. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher). On the rear panel, connect an Ethernet cable to lan 1 . Connect the 2. Type in the IP address of the OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager
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DIsPlay In G THe OMn IVIeW IP 5000HQ Web In Terfa Ce t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 To display the web interface: 2. Type in the IP address of the OmniView IP 5000HQ Manager (default IP address https://192.168.2.200) and press “Enter”. 1. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher). note! The IP address must begin with https:// and not http://. The login Windows Vista n ote! To log in to the web configuration interf
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DIsPlay In G THe OMn IVIeW IP 5000HQ Web In Terfa Ce t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 note! On the first connection, the OmniView IP 5000HQ GUI prompts you 5 . 1 Menu section to install the OmniView IP 5000HQ client software; see Figure 13. The menu section is on the left; see that Figure 12 is sub-divided into Click “Install”. three sections: Management, which includes the configuration pages for IP devices, targets, and users/groups. a
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Crea TInG Users t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 There are two possible methods of inputting users into the system. In LDAP mode, go to the “General tab” section below. When using local authentication (see page 44), users and groups To create a new user (in local authentication mode): are created in the OmniView IP 5000HQ GUI. When using an LDAP authentication server (see page 46), users and groups are imported 1. From the “Management” m
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Crea TInG Users t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2. Click . The following appears. 6 . 1 General tab Fill in the following details: User n ame – Type a login name. A user name cannot be identical to any other existing User name. It can contain uppercase or lowercase characters except for the following: : ; ? & < > ” A user name cannot include spaces. f ull n ame – Type the user’s real name Password/r etype Password – Type a pas
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Crea TInG Users t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 6 .2 User Group tab 2. Select the groups of which the new user will be a member. The groups appear in the “Member of” list. Once you have created users, you can put them into existing groups. This gives users the access rights of that user group. The “Creating a 6 .2 . 1 r emoving users from a group user group” section on page 19 explains how to create a user group. To remove users from
