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)
74 Managing Your Remote Console Switch
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d The Firmware Upgrade dialog box appears. Select TFTP Server as the source, and
type the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server IP address where the firmware is
located as well as the filename and directory location.
or
Click File System and browse to the location on your file system where the FLASH file
is located. Click Open.
Figure 4-13. Upgrade Firmware Dialog Box- TFTP Server
Figure 4-14. Upgrade Firmware Dialog Box - File System
3
Click the Upgrade button. The Upgrade button dims and a progress message appears.
4 When the upgrade is complete, a message prompting you to confirm a reboot appears. The
new firmware will not be used until the switch reboots. Click Yes to reboot the Remote
Console Switch. The Upgrade Firmware dialog box will display a progress message
including a message that the reboot is complete.
-or-
Click No to reboot at a later time. You will need to reboot in order to use the new firmware.
5 Click Close to exit the Upgrade Firmware window.
NOTICE: Do not power down the Remote Console Switch while it is upgrading.
You can upgrade firmware for all SIPs of a given type.