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)
Appendix A: Updating the Remote Console Switch Software 83
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Appendix A: Updating the Remote Console
Switch Software
For optimal operation of your system, ensure that you have the latest version of the Remote
Console Switch Software available from Dell™ support website at support.dell.com.
To update the Remote Console Switch Software:
1 Download the update file from the Dell support website - support.dell.com.
2 Double-click on the installer. The installer will check to see if a previous version of the
Remote Console Switch Software resides on your system.
3 If no previous version has been detected and a dialog box appears to confirm the upgrade,
click Continue.
-or-
If a previous version is detected and a dialog box appears alerting you to another version of
the product, click Overwrite to confirm the upgrade.
-or-
Click Cancel to exit without upgrading the software.
4 Installation commences. Program Files, Shortcuts, Environment Variables, and Registry
Entries (Windows 32 systems only), will be installed or overwritten with the new files and
settings of the current version.
NOTE: In order for the upgrade detection process to work, you must first either reboot or log out. Registry
keys set by the installer are not permanent on Windows 32 platforms or Linux until you have logged out or
rebooted the system.