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.