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)
Managing Your Remote Console Switch 65
Enabling and Configuring SNMP
SNMP is a protocol used to communicate management information between network
management applications and Remote Console Switches. Other SNMP managers can
communicate with your Remote Console Switch by accessing MIB-II and the public portion of
the enterprise MIB. When you select the SNMP category for the first time, the MP will retrieve
the SNMP parameters from the unit.
In this dialog box, you can enter system information and community strings. You may also
designate which stations can manage the Remote Console Switch as well as receive SNMP traps
from the switch. For more information on traps, see “Enabling Individual SNMP traps” on
page 66 in this chapter. If you check Enable SNMP, the unit will respond to SNMP requests over
UDP port 161.
NOTE: The MP does not use standard SNMP to control switches and therefore does not use UDP
port 161. The MP uses a secure, proprietary protocol to communicate with the Remote Console Switches
over a different network port. For more information, see “Appendix C: Ports Used by Console Switch
Software” on page 87.
Figure 4-7. SNMP Configuration Dialog Box
To configure general SNMP settings:
1 Select the SNMP category in the left column in the MP.
2 Click to enable the Enable SNMP check box to allow the Remote Console Switch to
respond to SNMP requests over UDP port 161.