Technical Product Specification

3BPlatform Management Intel® Server Board S5520UR and S5520URT TPS
Intel order number E44031-012 Revision 1.9
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4.2.2.1 Keyboard and Mouse
The keyboard and mouse are emulated by the Integrated BMC as USB human interface
devices.
4.2.2.2 Video
Video output from the KVM subsystem is equivalent to the video output on the local console.
Video redirection is available after video is initialized by the system BIOS.
4.2.2.3 Availability
Up to two remote KVM sessions are supported. The default inactivity timeout is 30 minutes, but
may be changed through the embedded web server. Remote KVM activation does not disable
the local system keyboard, video, or mouse. Remote KVM is not deactivated by local system
input, unless the feature is disabled locally.
KVM sessions persist across system reset, but not across an AC power loss.
4.2.3 Media Redirection
The embedded web server provides a Java applet to enable remote media redirection. This
may be used in conjunction with the remote KVM feature, or as a standalone applet.
This
feature is enabled only when the Intel
®
RMM3 is present.
The media redirection feature is intended to allow system administrators or users to mount a
remote IDE or USB CD-ROM, floppy drive or a USB flash disk as a USB device to the server.
Once mounted, the remote device appears just like a local device to the server, allowing system
administrators or users to install software (including Operating systems, copy files, update
BIOS, etc.) or boot the server from this device. USB 2.0 needs to be supported for better
performance.
The following capabilities are supported:
 The operation of remotely mounted devices is independent of the local devices on the
server. Both remote and local devices are useable in parallel.
 Either an IDE (CD-ROM, floppy) or USB device can be mounted as a remote device to
the server.
 All supported (P1) Microsoft Windows* and Linux* operating systems can be booted
from the remotely mounted device and from disk IMAGE (*.IMG) files.
 At least two devices can be mounted concurrently.
 The mounted device is visible to (and useable by) managed system’s OS and BIOS in
both pre-boot and post-boot states.
 The mounted device shows up in the BIOS boot order and the BIOS boot order can be
changed to boot from this remote device.
 The operating system can be installed on a bare metal (no OS present) server using the
remotely mounted device. This may also require the use of KVM redirection to configure
the OS during install.