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)
48 Basic Operation
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9 Click on the Connections tab to view the connections of the server. Connections
properties are available only for servers and are read-only. The display indicates the physical
connection path that is used to access this device and the connection type, such as video.
10 When finished, click OK to save the new settings.
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Click Cancel to exit without saving the new settings.
Accessing a Server via a Browser Window
You can configure your system to open a server connection in a browser window. You must first
select a server and define a URL in the Properties dialog box. Then, when you select the server,
the Browse task button appears. You can select the browser to use in the Explorer’s Options
dialog box.
To launch the server URL in a browser window:
1 Select a server in the Unit Selector pane.
2 If you have defined a URL for this server in the Properties dialog box, the Browse task
button appears. Click the Browse task button. The URL you identified will launch in a
browser window.
Organizing Your System
The Sites and Folders view tabs allow you to organize and manage your Remote Console
Switches and servers by custom groups. Site organization is based on where your servers are
located and refers to the column headings Site and Department, which can be customized to
suit your needs. See “Modifying Custom Field Names” on page 50. Folders are a way to create a
customized organizational system for individual servers. For example, you might want to create
a folder for critical servers or for remote servers.
You may change the order and sorting of the Unit Selector list by clicking in the column header.
An upward-pointing arrow in a column header indicates that the list is sorted by that field name
in ascending order. A downward-pointing arrow indicates the list is sorted by that field name in
descending order.
You can customize the column headings. Figure 3-26 and Figure 3-27 show examples of how you
might use the default field name values. You may change them to fit your own organization.
Figure 3-28 shows an example of customized field names.