User guide
Managing remote servers through the Video Session Viewer 84
Scanning your servers
Through the Thumbnail Viewer, you can set up a scan sequence of up to 16 servers to monitor your
servers. Scan mode moves from one thumbnail image to the next, logging in to a server and displaying
an updated server image for a user-specified length of time (View Time Per Service), before logging out of
that server and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You can also specify a scan delay between
thumbnails (Time Between Servers). During the delay, you can see the last thumbnail image for all servers
in the scan sequence, though you will not be logged in to any servers.
When you first launch the Thumbnail Viewer, each frame is filled with a white background until a server
image appears. An indicator light at the bottom of each frame displays the status of the server. A green
LED indicates that a server is currently being scanned. A red X LED indicates that the last scan of the
server was not successful. The scan might have failed because of a credential or path failure (the server
path on the console switch was not available). The tool tip for the LED indicates the reason for the failure.
Scan mode is a lower priority than an active connection. If you have an interactive session with a server,
that server is omitted in the scan sequence and the scan proceeds to the next server. No login error
messages display. After the interactive session is closed, the server is included in the scan sequence
again. If another user has an active connection to a server, you see that thumbnail in your scan list.
Accessing Scan mode
1. From main window, click Server, Sites, or Folders.
2. Select two or more servers by clicking the servers while pressing the Shift key or the Control key.
The Scan Mode button appears.
3. Click Scan Mode. The Scan Mode window appears.
Setting scan preferences
1. From the thumbnail view, select Options>Preferences. The Scan Mode Preference dialog box
appears.
2. Enter the time each thumbnail is active during the scan (10 to 60 seconds) in the View Time Per
Server field.
3. Enter the length of time the scan stops between each server (5 to 60 seconds) in the Time Between
Servers field.