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 37
Figure 3-18. Viewer - Scanning Servers
To access the Scan mode:
1 Select the Servers, Sites or Folders tab.
2 Select two or more servers in the Unit Selector pane by pressing the <Shift> key.
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Press the <Ctrl> key. The Scan Mode task button appears.
3 Click the Scan Mode task button. The Thumbnail Viewer window appears.
Thumbnail View Status Indicators
The green LED indicates that a server is currently being scanned. The red X indicates that the
last scan of the server was not successful. The scan may have failed due to a credential or path
failure (the server path on the Remote Console Switch was not available), or because of some
other reason. When the mouse pointer is placed on the red X a tool tip appears and indicates
the reason for the failure.
Setting up your Scanning Preferences
To set scan preferences:
1 From the Thumbnail Viewer, select Options - Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears.
2 Enter the time each thumbnail will be active during the scan (10 to 60 seconds) in the
View Time Per Server box.
3 Enter the length of time the scan stops between each server (5 to 60 seconds) in the Time
Between Servers box.
4 Click OK.