User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Remote Console Switch Software User’s Guide
- Product Overview
- Installation
- Basic Operation
- Launching the Remote Console Switch Software
- Navigating the Remote Console Switch Software
- Remote Console Switch Quick Setup Checklist
- Adding a Remote Console Switch or Avocent Remote Console Switch
- Accessing Your Remote Console Switch
- Accessing and Managing Your Servers
- Interacting With the Server Being Viewed
- Adjusting the Viewer
- Adjusting the Viewer Window
- Adjusting the Viewer Resolution
- Adjusting the Video Quality
- Minimizing Remote Video Session Discoloration
- Improving Screen Background Color Display
- Setting Mouse Scaling
- Minimizing Mouse Trailing
- Improving Mouse Performance
- Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering
- Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode
- Scanning Your Servers
- Thumbnail View Status Indicators
- Navigating the Thumbnail Viewer
- Using Macros to Send Keystrokes to the Server
- Creating New Macros
- Grouping Macros
- Session Options General Tab
- Screen Capturing
- Preemption
- Preemption of Remote User by a Remote Administrator
- Preemption of a Local User/Remote Administrator by a Remote Administrator
- Connection Sharing
- Changing Server Properties
- Accessing a Server via a Browser Window
- Organizing Your System
- Deleting and Renaming
- Customizing the Explorer Window
- Managing Your Local Databases
- Managing Your Remote Console Switch
- The Management Panel
- Viewing and Configuring Remote Console Switch Parameters
- Changing Global Network and Session Parameters
- Setting Up User Accounts
- Locking and Unlocking User Accounts
- Viewing the SIPs and Avocent AVRIQs
- Enabling and Configuring SNMP
- Enabling Individual SNMP traps
- Viewing and Resynchronizing Server Connections
- Resynchronizing the Server Listing
- Modifying a Server Name
- Viewing and Configuring Tiered Switch Connections
- Adding and Modifying Tiered Switch Connections
- Viewing Remote Console Switch Version Information
- Upgrading Firmware
- Controlling User Status
- Rebooting Your System
- Managing Remote Console Switch Configuration Files
- Managing User Databases
- Changing Remote Console Switch Properties
- Changing DirectDraw Support (Windows Operating Systems Only)
Basic Operation 13
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Basic Operation
Launching the Remote Console Switch Software
To launch the Dell™ Remote Console Switch Software on all Microsoft
®
Windows
®
systems:
Select Start - Programs - Dell Remote Console Switch Software. Remote Console Switch
Software will launch.
To launch the Remote Console Switch Software on Linux:
From the application folder (/usr/lib/Dell_Remote_Console_Switch_Software by default), enter
the following command:
./Dell_Remote_Console_Switch_Software
-or-
From (/user/bin), enter the following link:
./Dell_Remote_Console_Switch_Software
-or-
If the product was installed in a directory other than the default, then execute the following
command from a shell:
<path>/Dell_Remote_Console_Switch_Software
-or-
If a desktop shortcut was created on installation, double-click the shortcut.
The Remote Console Switch Software will launch.
Navigating the Remote Console Switch Software
The Remote Console Switch Software consists of several components: the Remote Console
Switch Software Explorer (Explorer), the Video Session Viewer (Viewer), and the Management
Panel (MP). Once you launch Remote Console Switch Software, the Explorer window appears.
The Explorer window allows you to view, access, manage, and create custom groupings for all
the supported units in your data center.
When you select a server, you can click the Connect Video task button in the Explorer to
launch the Viewer. This component allows you to control the keyboard, monitor, and mouse
functions of individual servers. For more information, see “Accessing and Managing Your
Servers” on page 24.