Users Guide

166 Using GUI Console Redirection
The buttons in Table 10-5 are available on the Console Redirection page.
4
To open a new console, click Connect .
NOTE: DRAC 5 supports four simultaneous console redirections. If you have
opened a session and another user tries to open a different session in the
same managed system, you receive a request for granting permission to the
user. You can permit or deny access. If you do not provide permission within
30 seconds, the request is deactivated.
If you are using a Firefox browser, it will prompt you to Open or Save a
JNLP file. You can open it with the
Java Web Start Launcher . If you choose
to save the JNLP file, manually open it before you disconnect the session.
Once you disconnect the session, the JNLP file saved cannot be validated.
If you are using Internet Explorer, it caches the JNLP file in the
Te m p o r a r y
Internet Files
folder and runs automatically using the Java Web Start
Launcher
.
NOTE: If one or more Security Alert windows appear in the following steps,
read the information in the window and click Yes to continue.
When you have finished using the Console and have logged out (using the
remote system's logout procedure), click
Disconnect on the Console
Redirection page or close the Viewer.
The management station connects to the DRAC 5 and the remote
system’s desktop appears in the Dell Digital KVM Viewer Application.
5 If two mouse pointers appear on the remote system's desktop, synchronize
the mouse pointers on the management station and the remote system.
See "Synchronizing the Mouse Pointers" on page 172.
Table 10-5. Console Redirection Page Buttons
Button Definition
Refresh Reloads the Console Redirection Configuration page
Connect Opens a console redirection session on the targeted
remote system.
Print Prints the Console Redirection Configuration page.