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 51
To create a new site, department or location:
1 Select View - Properties from the Explorer menu.
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Click the Properties task button. The Properties dialog box appears.
2 Click the General tab and select the drop-down list for Site, Department or Location. If a
name is not in the drop-down list, type the name you want in the text field. The name can
be from 1 to 32 characters long. Names are not case sensitive and can consist of any
combination of characters entered from the keyboard. Spaces are permitted in the middle
but leading and trailing spaces are not allowed. Duplicate names are not allowed.
3 Click OK. The new site, department or location appears in the Group Selector pane.
To create a new folder:
1 Select the Folders View Selector tab.
2 Click the Folders node and select File - New - Folder.
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Right-click the Folders node and select New Folder. The New Folder dialog box appears.
3 Type a name for the folder from 1 to 32 characters long. Folder names are not case sensitive
and can consist of any combination of characters entered from the keyboard. Spaces are
permitted in the middle but leading and trailing spaces are not allowed. Duplicate folder
names are not allowed at the same level but are allowed across different levels.
4 Click OK. The new folder appears in the Group Selector pane.
Assigning a Unit to a Site, Location, or Folder
You can assign a Remote Console Switch or server to a Site, Department, Location or Folder.
This menu item is only enabled when a single Remote Console Switch or server is selected in
the Unit Selector pane. These custom targets are defined in the General Properties dialog box.
To assign a unit to a site, location or folder:
1 Select a unit in the Unit Selector pane.
2 Select Edit - Assign from the Explorer menu.
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Click the Assign To task button.
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Right-click a unit and select Assign To. The Assign To dialog box appears.