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)
80 Managing Your Remote Console Switch
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7 Click the Network tab and type in the address of the Remote Console Switch. This field
can contain an IP dot notation or a domain name. Duplicate addresses are not allowed and
the field cannot be left blank. You can enter up to 128 characters.
8 (Optional) Click the Information tab and type the description of the unit. You can enter
any information in the following fields.
a In the Description field, enter 0 to 128 characters.
b In the Contact field, enter 0 to 128 characters.
c In the Contact Phone Number field, enter 0 to 64 characters.
d In the Comments field, enter 0 to 256 characters.You are free to enter any information
you wish into these fields.
9 When finished, click OK to save the new settings.
-or-
Click Cancel to exit without saving.
Changing DirectDraw Support
(Windows Operating Systems Only)
The Remote Console Switch Software supports DirectDraw, a standard that allows direct
manipulation of video display memory, hardware overlays and page flipping without the
intervention of the Graphical Device Interface (GDI). This can result in smoother animation
and improvement in the performance of display-intensive software.
However, if your machine has a software cursor or pointer shadow enabled, or if your video driver
does not support DirectDraw, you may experience a flicker in your mouse cursor when over the
title bar of the Viewer.
You can disable the software cursor or pointer shadow, load a new driver for your video card, or
you can disable DirectDraw.