Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition

• Browser Settings
  • Display Properties Setting:
    - Choose more than 256 video colors
    - Choose the screen size larger than the remote server's screen size
  • Remote Console:
    - Choose "Remote Console (Full)" to maximize the viewable area
    - In the Settings box, select the operating system to match the server's operating system and character set to match the remote server's character set
  • Mouse Properties Setting:
    - Set Mouse Pointer speed to the middle setting
    - Set Mouse Pointer Acceleration to "low" or disable pointer acceleration
  • The speed of the remote console is dependent upon the processing power of the client machine. Use a 400MHz (or faster) client. 64MB or more of memory is suggested.
  • Use a single processor client. Remote Console's Java applet tends to execute slower on multi-processor workstations.
• Recommended Server Settings NT 4 and Windows 2000
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 800x600 pixels or lower screen resolution
    - 256 colors
    - Plain Background (no wallpaper pattern)
  • Server Mouse Properties Setting:
    - For Mouse Pointer Scheme, select "none"
    - Disable Pointer Shadow in Windows 2000
    - Under "Motion" tab or "Pointer Options" tab, set the Pointer Speed slider to the middle position
    - Disable pointer acceleration
  • Using the Compaq SmartStart CD or CSP file, deploy the v4.90 or later Windows drivers
• NetWare 4.2 and 5.1
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 800x600 pixels or lower
    - 256 colors
  • "Remote Console (2-cursor)" recommended
  • Ensure Num Lock on the server's keyboard is not enabled
• Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.0
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 800x600 pixels or lower
    - 16-bit color
• OS/2 Warp Server 4.0
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 800x600 pixels or lower
    - 256 colors
  • "Remote Console (2-cursor)" recommended
• SCO UnixWare 7.x
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 64K colors, select 800x600 pixels
• SCO OpenServer 5.x
  • Server Display Properties Setting:
    - 800x600 pixels or lower
    - 256 colors
  • Full text mode remote console supported
• Single and 2-Cursor Modes For Remote Console 2-Cursor Mode
  • The "Remote Console (2-cursor)" option uses two mouse cursors in the remote console window to represent the remote server's mouse cursor and the local client's mouse cursor. The local client cursor is seen as a crosshair in the remote console window.
  • The 2-cursor option is supported with Java 1.1 VM and later.
  • If the two cursors drift apart, they can be "synchronized" and brought back together. Synchronize remote and local cursor by any of the following:
    1. Use the "Sync Mouse" button above the remote console frame.
    2. Right-click-drag and move the local crosshair cursor to align with the remote server's mouse cursor.
    3. Holding the Ctrl key, move the local crosshair cursor to align with the remote server's mouse cursor.
• Single Cursor Mode
  • The "Remote Console (Frame)" and "Remote Console (Full)" options present a single mouse cursor during remote console. Synchronization of two cursors is eliminated, making navigation very easy in the remote console window.
  • Single Cursor Mode requires Java 1.3.0_01 VM or greater. This download is available from:
    http://www.compaq.com/manage/jvm.html

Remote Console

• While multiple users can access the Remote Insight board at the same time, only one user can perform a remote console session. The remote server's local console (local keyboard and mouse) is unavailable during the remote console session.
• A remote console session ends whenever you:
  1. Log out of Remote Insight
  2. Change to a different web page
  3. Your session times out after the designated interval
  4. Close the browser.
  Local console control will be restored at the remote server as soon as the remote console session ends.
• A user with supervisory privileges configures the remote console session timeout for all users in Global Settings. The default, 15 minutes, may be configured up to 120 minutes. If emergency access to the remote server's local console is required during a remote console session, disconnecting the RJ45 LAN cable from the Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition will end the remote console session.
• As you always log off the server before leaving the server room, remember to log off the server before ending the remote console session.

Power & Server Shutdown

• As you always perform a graceful shutdown of the network operating system before powering off the server, remember to perform a graceful shutdown before using Remote Insight to reset the server or turn off server power via the virtual power button. If the operating system is functional, you can use the remote console to initiate a normal shutdown.
• Virtual Power Button is supported across the ML/DL/CL server lines and the ProLiant 8000, ProLiant 8500, and ProLiant 1850R models and requires the internal cable be connected between the Remote Insight board and the server.

Headless Server Deployments

• Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition may be used to deploy headless servers. Effectively, Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition replaces the server's keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
• For headless servers, the Remote Insight keyboard and mouse connection must either be made using the internal 16-pin cable (for selected servers) or using the external keyboard/mouse cable to the server's external keyboard and mouse connectors.
• NOTE: with the internal 16-pin cable installed, the server's keyboard and mouse attached to the server's connectors are routed to Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition by the internal 16-pin cable, do not attach the server keyboard and mouse using Remote Insight's external keyboard/mouse cable.
• To prevent POST errors when booting a headless server without a local keyboard, set 'Host Keyboard' to DISABLED in Remote Insight's Global Settings. Later, if a local keyboard is needed, remember to enable this setting.

Server Support

• The Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition is supported on PCI-based Compaq ProLiant and Prosignia servers.

External AC Adapter

• In order to benefit from the full feature set of the product, Compaq strongly recommends that you use the AC adapter included with every Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition. If the AC adapter is not used, the product will operate only when the server power is on and the card will be inaccessible whenever the server power is off.
• The AC adapter is not required for servers using the internal 16-pin cable with the Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition. Note: Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition specifically requires the AC adapter with the ML350 server.

Dial-Up Access

• If dial-up access is desired, the Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition can be effectively used via an external RAS server or modem router device.
  Additional information is available, see http://www.compaq.com/light-out