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)
36 Basic Operation
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Scanning Your Servers
Using the Thumbnail Viewer, you can set up a scan sequence of up to 16 servers to monitor your
servers. The scan mode moves from one thumbnail image to the next, logging into a server and
displaying an updated server image for a user-specified length of time (View Time Per Server),
before logging out of that server and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You can also
specify a scan delay between thumbnails (Time Between Servers). During the delay, you will see
the last thumbnail image for all servers in the scan sequence, though you won't be logged into
any servers.
An indicator light at the bottom of each frame displays the status of the server. The default
thumbnail size is based on the number of servers in the scan list.
Figure 3-17. Viewer - Thumbnail Viewer
Scan mode is a lower priority than an active connection. If you have an interactive session with a
server, that server will be skipped in the scan sequence and the scan mode will proceed to the
next server. No login error messages will appear. Once the interactive session is closed, then the
thumbnail will be included in the scan sequence again. If another user has an active connection
to a server, the server will be skipped and a red “X” will be displayed in the indicator light below
the frame.