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 35
Intellipoint Drivers (Only for Windows based Operating Systems):
1 Select Start - Settings - Control Panel.
2 Double-click the Mouse icon.
3 Cycle through the tabs until the pointer speed slider is displayed.
4 Adjust the mouse speed to the exact midpoint of the slider bar.
5 Click the Advanced button.
6 Click the Acceleration check box to turn off acceleration.
7 Click OK. Use the Align Local Cursor/Mouse button in the Viewer to resynchronize the
mouse.
Red Hat Linux:
1 Select the Mouse settings from the Desktop Controls.
2 Set Acceleration to 1.0.
3 Apply the changes and use the Align Local Cursor/Mouse button in the Viewer to
resynchronize the mouse.
Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering
If the video driver on the Remote Console Switch Software client machine does not support
DirectDraw and the DirectDraw option in the Remote Console Switch Software has been
activated, the mouse cursor will flicker on the screen. The Remote Console Switch Software
factory default has DirectDraw disabled. If the video driver on the client system supports
DirectDraw and the additional performance is desired, follow the instructions below to enable
DirectDraw.
To enable or disable DirectDraw:
1 In the Explorer window, select Too ls - Options.
2 Click to enable or disable the DirectDraw check box.
3 Click OK.
4 Restart the Remote Console Switch Software.
Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode
The Viewer allows you to simultaneously view multiple servers through the Thumbnail Viewer
of the Scan mode. This view contains a series of thumbnail frames, each containing a small,
scaled, non-interactive version of a server's screen image. The server name displays below each
thumbnail as well as the status indicator.