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)
26 Basic Operation
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To auto search by typing in the Unit list:
1 Click the Servers tab.
2 Type the first few characters of a server name. The highlight will move to the first server
beginning with those characters. If you pause for a second or more between letters, the
function will reset itself and you can begin to type the first few characters of the next
server.
Interacting With the Server Being Viewed
Once you have connected to a server, you will see the desktop window of the server on your
screen. This opens in a separate window. You will see two cursors, the local cursor and the
server’s cursor. You may need to align these if they do not move together or adjust the video if
they seem to jump about. From this window, you will be able to access all the normal functions
of this server as if you were sitting right in front of it. You may also perform Viewer-specific tasks
such as sending special macro commands to the server.
Viewer Window Features
Figure 3-10. Viewer Window
A Menu bar: Access many of the features in the Viewer.
B Accessed server desktop: Interact with your server through this window.