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 53
To delete a Remote Console Switch or server:
1 Select the unit(s) you wish to delete from the Unit Selector pane.
2 Select Edit - Delete.
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Press the <Del> key on your keyboard. A dialog box appears confirming the number of
units to be deleted. If you are deleting a Remote Console Switch, the dialog box includes a
Delete Associated Servers check box. Click to enable/disable the check box as desired.
3 Click Yes to confirm the deletion. Additional message prompts may appear depending on
your configuration. Respond as appropriate. The Remote Console Switch or server is
deleted.
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Click No to cancel.
To delete a server type, site, department or folder:
1 Select the server type, site, department or folder you wish to delete from the Group
Selector pane.
2 Select Edit - Delete.
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Press the <Del> key on your keyboard. A dialog box appears confirming the number of
units that will be affected by this deletion.
3 Click Yes to confirm the deletion. Additional message prompts may appear depending on
your configuration. Respond as appropriate. The element is deleted.
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Click No to cancel.
To rename a unit, site, department or folder:
1 In the Group Selector pane, click on the server, site, department or folder you wish to
rename.
2 Select Edit - Rename. The Rename dialog box appears.
3 Type a name 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,
with two exceptions: department names can be duplicated across different sites and folder
names can be duplicated across different levels.
4 Click OK to save the new name.
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Click Cancel to exit without saving changes.