User guide

Chapter 4: Managing Units 123
To display session information:
NOTE: This procedure is valid on the following managed appliances: DS1800 switches, CPS appliances, CCM
appliances and DSR switches.
1. Click Units in the tab bar.
2. Click Appliances in the side navigation bar. The Unit Views - Appliances - All window
will open.
3. Click on the appliance name.
4. Click Appliance Settings in the side navigation bar and then click Sessions. Active will
automatically be selected in the side navigation bar and the Appliance Sessions window
will open.
5. To display information about a specific session, click on the name of the KVM, virtual media
or serial session. The Active Session Information window will open, including information
about the active session.
6. Click Close. The Appliance Sessions window will open.
7. Click Close. The Unit Views window will open.
To display or change the session settings on a CPS or CCM appliance:
1. Click Units in the tab bar.
2. Click Appliances in the side navigation bar. The Unit Views - Appliances - All window
will open.
3. Click on the appliance name.
4. Click Appliance Settings in the side navigation bar and then click Sessions. Active will
automatically be selected in the side navigation bar and the Appliance Sessions window
will open.
5. Click Settings in the side navigation bar. The Appliance Settings - Sessions - Settings window
will open. The display includes SSH settings for the appliance.
6. Using the drop-down menu, specify the how the most recent 64K bytes of online and offline
data (history) from a serial port will be controlled:
• Auto - Select this option to display the history buffer content to a Telnet window.
• Hold - Select this option to save the buffer contents. To display the contents, you must
access the appliance CLI and issue a Port History command.
7. Click Enable Inactivity Timeout and use the arrows to specify a value (from 1-90 minutes) that
the managed appliance will wait during inactive intervals until the session is closed and the
user must log back into the managed appliance.
8. (CCM appliances only) In the Serial Session Share Mode area, enable one of the radio buttons:
Disable, Auto or Query.
9. Click Save and then click Close. The Unit Views window will open.