PLANET IKVM-16010 - Manual (Page 26)

8/16-Port IP KVM Switch
5 Remote Usage
5.1 Prerequisite
The IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010 feature 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 built-in Ethernet port.
The following interfaces are supported:
HTTP/HTTPS
The IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010 can be entirely managed using a standard web browser. You can
access the IKVM-8010 /16010 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 IKVM-8010 /
IKVM-16010 port via a terminal mode.
The primary interface of the IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010 is the HTTP interface. This is covered extensively in
this chapter. Other interfaces are addressed in subtopics.
In order to use the Remote Console window of your managed host system, the browser has to come with a
Java Runtime Environment version 1.1 or higher. If the browser has no Java support (such as on a small
handheld device), you are still able to maintain your remote host system using the administration forms
displayed by the browser itself.
Important: We recommend installing a Sun JVM 1.4.
For an insecure connection to the IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010, we can recommend the following browsers:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Win7.
• Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla 1.6 on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003, Win7 and Linux and other UNIX-like Operating Systems
In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection, you need a browser that
supports the HTTPS protocol. Strong security is only assured by using a key length of 128 Bit. Some of the
old browsers do not have a strong 128 Bit encryption algorithm.
Using the Internet Explorer, open the menu entry “?” and “Info” to read about the key length that is currently
activated. The dialog box contains a link that leads you to information on how to upgrade your browser to a
state of the art encryption scheme. The picture below shows the dialog box presented by the Internet
Explorer 6.0.
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