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)

60 Managing Your Remote Console Switch
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Setting Up User Accounts
When you select the Users category for the first time, the MP will retrieve and display a list of
usernames and current access levels from the Remote Console Switch. You can add, modify or
delete users in this listing. You can assign three access levels: User, Administrator, and Remote
Console Switch Administrator. The User access level allows you to assign individual server
access rights to a user.
Users can become locked out by the Security Lock-out feature if they try to enter an invalid
password five consecutive times. You can configure Security Lock-out settings as well as unlock
any user through the Users category.
NOTE: Preemptions listed in Table 4-1 only apply to Remote Clients. They do not apply to users
accessing the server locally.
Table 4-1. User Access Level Rights
Operations Remote Console
Switch Administrator
Administrator User
Preemption All Equal and lesser No
Configure network & global settings
(security mode, time-out, Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP))
Yes No No
Reboot Yes No No
FLASH upgrade Yes No No
Administer User Accounts Yes Yes No
Monitor server status Yes Yes No
Target Device Access Yes Yes Assigned by Admin