Users Guide

Conguring and using virtual console

You can use the virtual console to manage a remote system using the keyboard, video, and mouse on your management station to control

the corresponding devices on a managed server. This is a licensed feature for rack and tower servers. It is available by default in blade

servers.

The key features are:

• A maximum of six simultaneous Virtual Console sessions are supported. All the sessions view the same managed server console

simultaneously.

• You can launch virtual console in a supported Web browser by using Java, ActiveX, or HTML5 plug-in.

• When you open a Virtual Console session, the managed server does not indicate that the console has been redirected.

• You can open multiple Virtual Console sessions from a single management station to one or more managed systems simultaneously.

• You cannot open two virtual console sessions from the management station to the managed server using the same plug-in.

• If a second user requests a Virtual Console session, the rst user is notied and is given the option to refuse access, allow read-only

access, or allow full shared access. The second user is notied that another user has control. The rst user must respond within thirty

seconds, or else access is granted to the second user based on the default setting. When two sessions are concurrently active, the rst

user sees a message in the upper-right corner of the screen that the second user has an active session. If neither the rst or second

user has administrator privileges, terminating the rst user's session automatically terminates the second user's session.

NOTE

: For information on conguring your browser to access the virtual console, see Conguring web browsers to use virtual

console.

Topics:

• Supported screen resolutions and refresh rates

• Conguring virtual console

• Previewing virtual console

• Launching virtual console

• Using virtual console viewer