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)
16 Basic Operation
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4 Using the local port configuration, input all server names via the On-Screen Configuration
and Activity Reporting interface (OSCAR
®
).
NOTE: For 2161DS-2 and 4161DS Console Switches, names can be modified from the Servers category
or the MP. For more information, see “Modifying a Server Name” on page 69.
To set up the Remote Console Switch Software: (See the Installation section of this guide.)
1 Install the Remote Console Switch Software on each client workstation.
2 From one client workstation, launch the Remote Console Switch Software.
3 Click the New Remote Console Switch task button to add the new switch to the Remote
Console Switch Software database. If you configured the IP address as described above,
select Yes, the product already has an IP address, otherwise select No, the product does
not have an IP address. Remote Console Switch Software will find the Remote Console
Switch and all SIPs attached to it. These names display in the Explorer.
NOTE: In addition to adding and managing Dell Remote Console Switches using the Remote Console
Switch Software, you can also add and manage Avocent
®
A1000R and A2000R switches.
4
Set properties and group servers as desired into locations, sites or folders through the
Explorer.
5 Create user accounts through the MP.
6 Once one client workstation is set up, select File - Database - Save to save a copy of the
database with all the settings.
7 From the second client workstation, click File - Database - Load and browse to find the file
you have saved. Select the file and click Load.
8 If the local user (via OSCAR
®
) adds, deletes or renames any SIPs after you have loaded
this file, you can resynchronize your local database with OSCAR
®
by clicking the Manage
Remote Console Switch task button and clicking the Resync button under the Settings -
Server tab.
9 To control an attached server select it, in the Explorer, and click the Connect Video task
button to launch a server session in the Viewer.
10 Adjust the resolution (select View - Manual Scale) and quality (select Tools - Manual
Video Adjust) of the server video in the Viewer.
Adding a Remote Console Switch or Avocent Remote Console
Switch
In addition to the Dell Remote Console Switch, the Remote Console Switch Software can also
be used to manage Avocent
®
A1000R and A2000R Remote Console Switches. Therefore, as part
of the process of adding a Remote Console Switch to your Remote Console Switch Software
database, you will be prompted to select the vendor and product type for the switch you want
to add.