Chatsworth Products KVM Over IP - Manual (Page 12)

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Usage
2.1 Prerequisites
The IP console features an embedded operating system and applications offering a variety of
standardized interfaces. This chapter will describe both these interfaces, and the way to use
them in a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP protocol family,
thus they can be accessed using the LAN port of the device.
The following interfaces are supported:
• HTTP/HTTPS: Full access is provided by the embedded web server. The IP console
environment can be entirely managed using a standard web browser. You can access the IP
console using the insecure HTTP protocol, or using the encrypted HTTPS protocol.
Whenever possible, use HTTPS.
• Telnet : A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to the
IP consoles multi port via a terminal mode.
The primary interface of the IP console is the HTTP interface. This is covered extensively in this
chapter. Other interfaces are addressed in subtopics.
In order to use the Remote Console (see section 2.3) window of your managed host system, the
browser has to come with a Java Runtime Environment version 1.4.2 or above. If the browser
has no Java support (such as on a small handheld device), you are still able to maintain your IP
console using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself.
Important: We recommend installing a Sun JVM 1.5.0.4.
For an unsecure (HTTP) connection to the IP console, we can recommend the following
browsers :
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 or higher on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla 1.6: on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, Linux and
UNIX-like Operating Systems