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)
28 Basic Operation
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Adjusting the Viewer Tool bar
You may add up to 10 buttons to the toolbar. These buttons allow you to provide easy access to
defined function and keyboard macros. By default, the Align Local Cursor, Refresh Image, and
Single Cursor Mode buttons are displayed.
To add buttons to the toolbar:
1 From the Tools menu, choose Session Options. The Session Options toolbar is displayed.
2 Click the Toolbar tab.
3 Click to select the items you want to add to the Viewer toolbar.
4 Click OK to accept the changes and return to the Viewer main window.
Figure 3-12. Session Options Dialog Box - Toolbar Tab
Setting the Toolbar Hide Delay Time
Unless the Thumbtack button has been clicked, the toolbar will disappear when you remove the
mouse cursor. You can change the interval between the removal of the mouse cursor and the
disappearance of the toolbar by adjusting the Toolbar Hi de Delay time.
To chan ge the Toolbar Hide Delay time:
1 From the Tools menu, choose Session Options. The Session Options toolbar is displayed.
2 Click the Toolbar tab.
3 In the Tool b ar Hide Delay field, type the number of seconds for which you want the
toolbar to display, after the mouse cursor is removed.
- or -
Using the Up and Down button, click to increase or decrease the number of seconds for
which you want the toolbar to display, after the mouse cursor is removed.
4 Click OK to accept the change you have made and return to the Viewer main window.