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)
4 Contents
Setting Mouse Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Minimizing Mouse Trailing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Improving Mouse Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Scanning Your Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Thumbnail View Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Navigating the Thumbnail Viewer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using Macros to Send Keystrokes to the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creating New Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Grouping Macros
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Session Options General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Screen Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Preemption
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Preemption of Remote User by a Remote Administrator . . . . . . . . . 43
Preemption of a Local User/Remote Administrator by a
Remote Administrator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Connection Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing Server Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Accessing a Server via a Browser Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Organizing Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Modifying Custom Field Names
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Assigning a Unit to a Site, Location, or Folder
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Deleting and Renaming
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Customizing the Explorer Window
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Modifying the Selected View on Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing the Default Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Managing Your Local Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Saving a Database
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Exporting a Database
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Loading a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56