User guide
20 DSView Installer/User Guide
To change the color scheme of the DSView Explorer:
1. Click the Profile tab.
2. Click Preferences in the top navigation bar.
3. Click Color Scheme in the side navigation bar. The Color Scheme window will open.
4. Click a color scheme to use.
5. Click Save. The color scheme will be applied to the DSView Explorer window.
Changing your password
Users may change their passwords only if the Administrator has set appropriate permissions See
Adding User Accounts on page 153 for more information.
By default, passwords must contain at least three characters and will never expire. A DSView
software administrator may specify a different minimum character length and an expiration date.
See Managing Authentication Services on page 58 for more information.
To change your password:
1. Click the Profile tab.
2. Click Preferences in the top navigation bar.
3. Click Change Password in the side navigation bar. The Change Password window will open.
4. Type your current password.
5. Type and confirm the new password.
6. Click Save.
Enabling/disabling use of a third party Telnet application
You may choose to use a third party Telnet application instead of the DSView software Telnet
Viewer for serial sessions. Once you configure a third party application in a profile, that application
will be used whenever a serial session is launched.
You may also return to using the DSView software Telnet Viewer by disabling use of the third
party Telnet application.
To enable use of a third party Telnet application:
1. Click the Profile tab. Preferences will automatically be selected in the top navigation bar.
2. Click Applications in the side navigation bar.
3. Check the Enable 3rd Party Application checkbox.
4. Enter the path and executable name of the application (maximum 256 characters) in the Serial
Application field.
5. Specify any of the following parameters (up to 128 characters) in the Command Line Argu-
ments field. When the serial session is launched, the actual values will be substituted.
%ADDRESS% - The IP address will be substituted.