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 15
C Group Selector pane: Contains a tree view representing the groups that are available
for the current View Selector tab. The selected group controls what is displayed in the
Unit Selector pane when the Remote Console Switches, Sites or Folder tabs are
selected.
D Status bar: Displays the number of units shown in the Unit list.
E Unit Selector pane: Contains the Search bar, Unit list, and Ta sk buttons appropriate
for the selected view or group.
F Search bar: Allows you to search the database based on the text entered in the search
box.
G Unit list: Displays a Unit list of units contained in the currently selected group, or the
results of the search executed from the Search bar.
H Task buttons: Contains buttons representing tasks that can be executed. Some buttons
are dynamic based on the type of unit(s) selected in the Unit list while other buttons
are fixed and always present.
Remote Console Switch Quick Setup Checklist
The following list is an overview of the steps you will follow to set up and configure your Remote
Console Switch system. Each of these steps is explained in detail in separate topics throughout
the Remote Console Switch Hardware and OSCAR
®
User’s Guide and Remote Console Switch
Software User's Guide.
NOTE: The Remote Console Switch Software can be used to manage Avocent
®
A1000R and A2000R
Remote Console Switches. Therefore, all procedures outlined in this document refer to both Remote
Console Switch and Avocent Remote Console Switches. Exceptions are noted where applicable.
NOTE: Please ensure that all your Remote Console Switches have been upgraded to the most recent
version of the firmware. For information on upgrading Remote Console Switch firmware see “Upgrading
Firmware” on page 73.
To set up the Remote Console Switch: (See the Remote Console Switch Hardware and
OSCAR
®
User's Guide)
1 Adjust mouse acceleration on each server to Slow or None.
2 Install the Remote Console Switch hardware, connect a Server Interface Pod (SIP) or
Avocent® AVRIQ to each server or tiered switch. Connect each SIP or Avocent AVRIQ to
the Remote Console Switch with CAT 5 cabling and connect the keyboard, monitor, and
mouse connectors to the analog port of the Remote Console Switch.
3 Connect a terminal to the configuration (serial) port on the back panel of the Remote
Console Switch and set up network configuration (set network speed and address type).
The IP address can be set here or from the Remote Console Switch Software. Dell
recommends using a static IP address for ease of configuration.