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)
14 Basic Operation
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When you select a Remote Console Switch, you can click the Manage Remote Console Switch
task button in the Explorer to launch the MP. This component enables you to control each
individual Remote Console Switch. For more information, see “Managing Your Remote Console
Switch” on page 57.
Viewing Your System in the Explorer
The Explorer is divided into several panes: the View Selector tabs, the Group Selector pane, and
the Unit Selector pane. The content of these panes will change based on the type of unit
selected or the task you wish to complete. Figure 3-1 highlights these navigation features.
Click one of the View Selector tabs to view your system organized by categories: Remote
Console Switches, Servers, Sites or Folders. The Explorer's default display is user-configurable.
You can have it automatically open to any one of these four tabs. For more information, see
“Customizing the Explorer Window” on page 54. If you do not customize the default display,
the Explorer will open to the Server view once you have added your first Remote Console
Switch.
Explorer Window Features
Figure 3-1. Explorer Window
A
Menu bar: Allows you to access many of the features in the Remote Console Switch
Software.
B View Selector tabs: Contains four View Selector tabs for choosing the Explorer view.