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Multimedia/DVI Desktop KVM Switches
Infrastructure Management &
Monitoring for
Business-Critical Continuity
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Figure 1: MergePoint EMS Architecture
Specifications
KVM
• System-independent video and text console
redirection, including keyboard and mouse
• Independent from server’s graphics subsystem
• Full remote administration with seamless ac-
cess from BIOS POST through to OS load
• OS independent - no drivers or OS-agents
required
• Up to 30 frames per second
• Fast, hardware-based video capturing
and compression
• Multiple resolutions – independent of local
video
- 1600x1200 at 72Hz max
- 1280x1024 at 72Hz max
- 1024x768 at 85Hz max
- 800x600 at 85Hz max
- 640x480 at 100Hz max
• 15-bit color (configurable down to 7-bit and
gray scale for low bandwidth connections)
• Supports four remote users simultaneously
Web-based management features
• Embedded Linux Web Server supporting four
users concurrently
• Display overall server health and status; peak
and cumulative power usage; hardware assets
and their configuration; and system events
and alerts
• Configure users and privilege levels; IPMI;
SNMP; email events and alerts; and to turn
on/off event logging and alerting for sensors/
components
• Controls server power - power on/off/reset
the server
• Runs diagnostics
• Failsafe firmware updates (using Web GUI,
TFTP, USB [vMedia], IPMI)
• Download KVM and vMedia client applets for
remote users
• Supports Internet Explorer 8.0 or later, Firefox
3.6 or later
• Supports Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH v2)
IPMI development tools
Tablemaker, BMC configuration utilities, SDR
generator and editor, FRU/SDR loader, firmware
download utility
DMTF
Conforms to all base profiles and guidelines for
SMASH 2.0 Extensive profile support
Virtual media
• USB 2.0 compliant w/14x CD-ROM speed
• Allows use of up to four simultaneously
mounted remote floppy, hard-disk CD, DVD,
USB flash drives or IDE image devices
• Optional encryption (AES/RC4) on connections
• Requires Java™ Run Time Environment (JRE)
1.4.2 or higher
• Supported platforms – Windows®, Red Hat®
and SUSE®
Security features
• Supports up to 12 user profiles w/credentials
• Optional per KVM/vMedia session SSL 128 Bit
(RC4), AES or Triple DES encryption
Supported silicon platforms
• ASPEED: 2xxx
• Nuvoton: Hermon
• Server Engines Pilot 2
Easy customization and localization
GUI and viewer applets fully customizable
• Change vendor name, product name, logo,
splash screen
• Modify Web pages to customize for any URLs
or references
Industry standards support IPMI
• Conforms to IPMI 2.0 and includes latest
compliant errata
• PET, PEF (up to 40 filters and four policies) and
firmware firewall
• Supports vendor-specific IPMI commands
• IPMI Security/AAA support:
- Authentication: RAKP-HMAC-SHA1, RAKP-
HMAC-MD5
- Integrity: HMAC-SHA1-96, HMAC-MD5-128,
MD5-128
- Encryption: AES-CBC-128, XRC4-128, XRC4-40
• Command line shell (IPMItool) for scripting
management tasks
• Serial-over-LAN (SOLProxy) for access to BIOS
and OS-Console
Embedded Linux Kernel
Applications
• Web Server/
Web UI
• WS-Man
• SMASH-CLP
• CIMOM
• DCMI
• vKVM
• IPMI 2.0
• vMedia
• AIM
• Flash Update
SECURITY
Kerberos, IPMI
Authentication
• I2C
• PMBus
• KCS
• USB
• UART
• Timers
• Fan Tach
Manageability Controller ASICs
• PWM
• A/D
• GPIO
• NC-SI
• vLAN
• LAN
• LPC
• SPI
• Event
Handshake
• PECI
• DVC
• DPT
• Future Drivers
Hardware Drivers
Managed Platform Hardware
U-Boot
Figure 2: MergePoint EMS Web-Based Management
Figure 3: MergePoint EMS Virtual Media Mapping