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Console Server Management Switch

Models: B096-016 / B096-048

Console Server with PowerAlert

Model: B092-016

Tripp Lite World Headquarters

1111 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60609 USA

(773) 869-1234 (USA) • 773.869.1212 (International)

www.tripplite.com

INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION 9

2. INSTALLATION 14

2.1 Models 14

2.1.1 Kit components: B096-048 and B096-016 Console Server Management Switch 14

2.1.2 Kit components: B092-016 Console Server with PowerAlert 15

2.2 Power connection 15

2.2.1 Power: Console Server Management Switch 15

2.2.2 Power: Console Server with PowerAlert 16

2.3 Network connection 16

2.4 Serial Port connection 16

2.5 USB Port Connection 17

2.6 Rackmount Console / KVM Connection (B092-016 only) 17

3. INITIAL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 18

3.1 Management Console Connection 18

3.1.1 Connected computer set up 18

3.1.2 Browser connection 19

3.1.3 Initial B092-016 connection 21

3.2 Administrator Password 21

3.3 Network IP address 22

3.3.1 IPv6 configuration 23

3.4 System Services 24

3.5 Communications Software 27

3.5.1 SDT Connector 27

3.5.2 PuTTY 27

3.5.3 SSHTerm 28

3.6 Management Network Configuration (B096-048/016 only) 29

3.6.1 Configure Management Switch as a Management LAN gateway 29

3.6.3 Configure Management Switch for Failover or broadband OOB 32

4. SERIAL PORT AND NETWORK HOST 33

4.1 Configuring Serial Ports 33

4.1.1 Common Settings 34

4.1.2 Console Server Mode 35

4.1.3 SDT Mode 39

4.1.4 Device (RPC, UPS, EMD) Mode 39

4.1.5 Terminal Server Mode 39

4.1.6 Serial Bridging Mode 40

4.1.7 Syslog 41

4.2 Add/Edit Users 41

4.3 Authentication 44

4.4 Network Hosts 44

4.5 Trusted Networks 46

4.6 Serial Port Cascading 47

4.6.1 Automatically generate and upload SSH keys 47

4.6.2 Manually generate and upload SSH keys 48

4.6.3 Configure the Slaves and their serial ports 50

4.6.4 Managing the Slaves 51

5. FAILOVER AND OUT-OF-BAND ACCESS 52

5.1 OoB Dial-In Access 52

5.1.1 Configure dial-in PPP 52

5.1.2 Using SDT Connector client for dial-in 54

5.1.3 Set up Windows XP/ 2003/Vista client for dial-in 54

5.1.4 Set up earlier Windows clients for dial-in 55

5.1.5 Set up Linux clients for dial-in 56

5.2 OoB Broadband Access (B096-048/016 only) 56

5.3 Broadband Ethernet Failover (B096-048/016 only) 56

5.4 Dial-Out Failover 58

6. SECURE TUNNELING AND SDT CONNECTOR 60

6.1 Configuring for SDT Tunneling to Hosts 61

6.2 SDT Connector Configuration 61

6.2.1 SDT Connector client installation 62

6.2.2 Configuring a new gateway in the SDT Connector client 63

6.2.3 Auto-configure SDT Connector client with the user’s access privileges 64

6.2.4 Make an SDT connection through the gateway to a host 65

6.2.5 Manually adding hosts to the SDT Connector gateway 66

6.2.6 Manually adding new services to the new hosts 67

6.2.7 Adding a client program to be started for the new service 69

6.2.8 Dial- in configuration 70

6.2.9 Choosing an alternate SSH client (e.g. PuTTY) 70

6.3 SDT Connector to Management Console 75

6.4 SDT Connector - Telnet or SSH connect to serially attached devices 76

6.5 Using SDT Connector for out-of-band connection to the gateway 77

6.6 Importing (and exporting) preferences 79

6.7 SDT Connector Public Key Authentication 79

6.8 Setting up SDT for Remote Desktop access 80

6.8.1 Enable Remote Desktop on the target Windows computer to be accessed 80

6.8.2 Configure the Remote Desktop Connection client 81

6.9 SDT SHH Tunnel for VNC 85

6.9.1 Install and configure the VNC Server on the computer to be accessed 85

6.9.2 Install, configure and connect the VNC Viewer 86

6.10 Using SDT to IP connect to hosts that are serially attached to the gateway 88

6.10.1 Establish a PPP connection between the host COM port and Console Server 88

6.10.2 Set up SDT Serial Ports on Console Server 91

6.10.3 Set up SDT Connector to ssh port forward over the Console Server Serial Port 92

7. ALERTS AND LOGGING 93

7.1 Configure SMTP/SMS/SNMP/Nagios alert service 93

7.1.1 Email alerts 93

7.1.2 SMS alerts 94

7.1.3 SNMP alerts 95

7.1.4 Nagios alerts 96

7.2 Activate Alert Events and Notifications 96

7.2.1 Add a new alert 97

7.2.2 Select general alert type 98

7.2.3 Configuring environment and power alert type 99

7.3 Remote Log Storage 100

7.4 Serial Port Logging 101

7.5 Network TCP or UDP Port Logging 102

POWER & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 103

8.1 Remote Power Control (RPC) 103

8.1.1 RPC connection 103

8.1.2 RPC alerts 105

8.1.3 RPC status 105

8.1.4 User power management 105

8.2 Uninterruptible Power Supply Control (UPS) 106

8.2.1 Managed UPS connections 106

8.2.2 Configure UPS powering the Console Server 109

8.2.3 Configuring powered computers to monitor a Managed UPS 110

8.2.4 UPS alerts 111

8.2.5 UPS status 111

8.2.6 Overview of Network UPS Tools (NUT) 111

8.3 Environmental Monitoring 113

8.3.1 Connecting the EMD 114

8.3.2 Environmental alerts 115

8.3.3 Environmental status 115

AUTHENTICATION 117

9.1 Authentication Configuration 117

9.1.1 Local authentication 118

9.1.2 TACACS authentication 118

9.1.3 RADIUS authentication 119

9.1.4 LDAP authentication 120

9.1.5 RADIUS/TACACS user configuration 121

9.2 PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) 122

9.3 Secure Management Console Access 123

NAGIOS INTEGRATION 125

10.1 Nagios Overview 125

10.2 Central management 126

10.2.1 Set up central Nagios server 126

10.2.2 Set up distributed Console Servers 127

10.3 Configuring Nagios distributed monitoring 129

10.3.1 Enable Nagios on the Console Server 129

10.3.2 Enable NRPE monitoring 131

10.3.3 Enable NSCA monitoring 132

10.3.4 Configure selected Serial Ports for Nagios monitoring 132

10.3.5 Configure selected Network Hosts for Nagios monitoring 133

10.3.6 Configure the upstream Nagios monitoring host 134

10.4 Advanced Distributed Monitoring Configuration 135

10.4.1 Sample Nagios configuration 135

10.4.2 Basic Nagios plug-ins 138

10.4.3 Additional plug-ins 138

11. SYSTEM MANAGEMENT 140

11.1 System Administration and Reset 140

11.2 Upgrade Firmware 141

11.3 Configure Date and Time 142

12. STATUS REPORTS 143

12.1 Port Access and Active Users 143

12.2 Statistics 143

12.3 Support Reports 144

12.4 Syslog 144

13. MANAGEMENT 146

13.1 Device Management 146

13.2 Port and Host Management 146

13.3 Power Management 147

13.4 Serial Port Terminal Connection 147

13.5 Remote Console Access (B092-016 only) 149

14. BASIC CONFIGURATION - LINUX COMMANDS 151

14.1 The Linux Command line 152

14.2 Administration Configuration 154

System Settings 154

Authentication Configuration 154

14.3 Date and Time Configuration 155

14.4 Network Configuration 156

IP Configuration 156

Dial-in Configuration 157

Services Configuration 158

14.5 Serial Port Configuration 159

Serial Port Settings 159

Supported Protocol Configuration 160

Users 160

Trusted Networks 161

14.6 Event Logging Configuration 162

Remote Serial Port Log Storage 162

Alert Configuration 163

14.7 SDT Host Configuration 163

SDT Host TCP Ports 163

14.8 Configuration backup and restore 165

14.9 General Linux command usage 166

15. ADVANCED CONFIGURATION 168

15.1 Advanced Portmanager 169

15.2 External Scripts and Alerts 171

15.3 Raw Access to Serial Ports 173

15.4 IP- Filtering 174

15.5 Modifying SNMP Configuration 176

Adding more than on SNMP server 177

15.6 Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key Authentication 178

SSH Overview 178

Generating Public Keys (Linux) 179

Installing the SSH Public/Private Keys (Clustering) 180

Installing SSH Public Key Authentication (Linux) 180

Generating Public/Private keys for SSH (Windows) 182

Fingerprinting 184

SSH tunneled serial bridging 185

SDT Connector Public Key Authentication 188

15.7 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Support 189

15.8 HTTPS 190

15.9 Power Strip Control 192

PowerMan 192

pmpower 194

Adding new RPC devices 194

15.10 IPMItool 196

15.11 Scripts for Managing Slaves 200

16. THIN CLIENT (B092-016) 202

16.1 Local Client Service Connections 202

16.1.1 Connect- serial terminal 204

16.1.2 Connect- browser 204

16.1.3 Connect- VNC 205

16.1.4 Connect- SSH 206

16.1.5 Connect- IPMI 207

16.1.6 Connect- Remote Desktop (RDP) 208

16.1.7 Connect- Citrix ICA 209

16.1.8 Connect- PowerAlert 209

16.2 Advanced Control Panel 210

16.2.1 System: Terminal 210

16.2.2 System: Shutdown / Reboot 211

16.2.3 System: Logout 211

16.2.4 Custom 211

16.2.5 Status 211

16.2.6 Logs 211

16.3 Remote control 212

Appendix A Hardware Specification 213

Appendix B Serial Port Connectivity 214

Appendix C End User License Agreement 216

Appendix D Service and Warranty 223

1. INTRODUCTION

This Manual

This User Manual is provided to help you get the most from your B096-016 / B096-048 Console Server

Management Switch or B092-016 Console Server with PowerAlert product. These products are referred

to generically in this manual as Console Servers.

Once configured, you will be able to use your Console Server to securely monitor, access and control the

computers, networking devices, telecommunications equipment, power supplies and operating

environment in your data center, branch office or communications room. This manual guides you in

managing this infrastructure locally (at the rack side or across your operations or management LAN or

through the local serial console port), and remotely (across the Internet, private network or via dial up).

FCC Information

This is an FCC Class A product. In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in

which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. This equipment has been tested and

found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These

limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment

is operated in a commercial environment.

This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in

accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case

the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

RoHS

This product is RoHS compliant.

User Notice

All information, documentation and specifications contained in this manual are subject to change

without prior notification by the manufacturer. The manufacturer makes no representations or

warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims

any warranties as to merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any of the manufacturer's

software described in this manual is sold or licensed `as is'. Should the programs prove defective

following their purchase, the buyer (and not the manufacturer, its distributor, or its dealer), assumes the

entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from

any defect in the software.

The manufacturer of this system is not responsible for any radio and/or TV interference caused by

unauthorized modifications to this device. It is the responsibility of the user to correct such interference.

The manufacturer is not responsible for any damage incurred in the operation of this system if the

correct operational voltage setting was not selected prior to operation.

RODUCTION

Please take care to follow the safety precautions below when installing and

operating the Console Server:

Do not remove the metal covers. There are no operator-serviceable

components inside. Opening or removing the cover may expose you to

dangerous voltage which may cause fire or electric shock. Refer all service

to Tripp Lite qualified personnel

To avoid electric shock the power cord protective grounding conductor

must be connected through to ground

Always pull on the plug, not the cable, when disconnecting the power cord

from the socket

Do not connect or disconnect the Console Server during an electrical storm

Also it is recommended you use a surge suppressor or UPS to protect the

equipment from transients

Manual Organization

This User Manual covers all aspects of installation, configuration and operation and an overview of the

information found in the manual is provided below.

1. Introduction An overview of the features of the Console Server and information on

this manual

2. Installation Details physical installation of the Console Server and the

interconnection of controlled devices

3. System Configuration Describes the initial installation and configuration using the

Management Console of the Console Server on the network and the

services that will be supported

4. Serial and Network Covers configuring serial ports and connected network hosts, and

setting up Users and Groups

5. Failover and OoB dial-in Describes setting up the high-availability access features of the Console

Server

6. Secure Tunneling (SDT) Covers secure remote access using SSH and configuring for RDP, VNC,

HTTP, HTTPS, etc. access to network and serially connected devices

7. Alerts and Logging Explains the setting up of local and remote event/ data logs and

triggering SNMP and email alerts

8. Power & Environment Management of USB, serial and network attached Power Distribution

units and UPS units including Network UPS Tool (NUT) operation and

IPMI power control. EMD environmental sensor configuration

9. Authentication All access to the Console Server requires usernames and passwords

which are locally or externally authenticated

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