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)
38 Basic Operation
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Navigating the Thumbnail Viewer
When you highlight an individual thumbnail frame and select the Thumbnail menu, you can
launch an interactive session to that server, add that server to the scan sequence or set the login
credentials for that server. The Options menu allows you to access scanning preferences as well
as pause the scan and set the thumbnail size for all servers.
To launch a server Video session:
1 Select a server thumbnail.
2 From the Thumbnail Viewer, select Thumbnail - [server name] - View Interactive Session.
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Right-click a server thumbnail and select View Interactive Session. That server's video will
be launched in an interactive Viewer window.
To enable or disable a server in the scan sequence:
1 Select a server thumbnail.
2 From the Thumbnail Viewer, select Thumbnail - [server name] - Enable.
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Right-click a server thumbnail and select Enable. That server will be included/excluded in
the server thumbnail scan sequence.
NOTE: The Enable menu item state can be toggled from checked (enabled) to unchecked (disabled)
each time it is selected.
NOTE: If a server is being accessed by a user, the Enable menu will be disabled for that server
thumbnail.
To pause or restart a scan sequence:
1 From the Thumbnail Viewer, select Options - Pause Scan. The scan sequence will pause at
the current thumbnail if the Thumbnail Viewer has a scan in progress or will restart the
scan if currently paused.
To change the thumbnail size:
1 From the Thumbnail Viewer, select Options - Thumbnail Size.
2 Select the desired thumbnail size from the menu.
Using Macros to Send Keystrokes to the Server
The Macros menu in the Viewer allows you an easy way to send multiple keystrokes to the
server. The Viewer provides a list of default keystroke selections. However, you may set up your
own macros by using the Configure option at the bottom of the Macros drop-down list as well
as change the set that displays by default.
To send keystrokes to the server: