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 69
3 If no changes were detected in the appliance, a completion dialog box appears with this
information.
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If server changes were detected, then the Detected Changes dialog box will be displayed.
Click Next to update the database.
4 If a cascade switch was detected, the Enter Tiered Switch Information dialog box appears.
Select the type of switch connected to the appliance from the drop-down list. If the type
you are looking for is not available, you can add it by clicking the Add button. For more
information, see “Viewing and Configuring Tiered Switch Connections” on page 70.
5 Click Next. The completion dialog box appears.
6 Click Finish to exit.
Modifying a Server Name
The Modify button in the Servers dialog allows you to rename a selected server. The dialog box
allows you to change a server name from a remote workstation rather than from the OSCAR of
the Remote Console Switch.
To modify a device name:
1 In the Server category, click to select the server whose name you wish to change.
2 Click Modify. The Name Modify dialog is displayed.
Figure 4-10. Name Modify Dialog Box
3
Type the name you want to assign to the server.
4 Click OK. The name you have supplied is updated in both the remote console switch and
local client database.