User's Manual

Basic Operations

This chapter describes basic operations and settings, including global system properties, profiles,

built-in user groups and preemption levels.

Rack Power Manager Help

The Rack Power Manager help is hosted on the Avocent web site. If you do not have continuous

access to the Internet, you may wish to install the help on the local Rack Power Manager server.

NOTE: Help for Rack Power Manager software plug-ins is automatically installed on your local server and is not

available from the Avocent web site.

Configuring the Rack Power Manager help location

Rack Power Manager administrators can change the Rack Power Manager help location at any

time. Help is configured independently for each Rack Power Manager hub and spoke server.

To configure the Rack Power Manager help location:

1. Click the System tab, then click Rack Power Manager Server.

2. Click Properties - Help Configuration in the side navigation bar.

3. Specify the location of the help that will be accessed each time Help - Rack Power Manager

Management Software Help is clicked.

Select View help from the Avocent web site to access the latest help for your Rack Power

Manager software version from the Avocent web site (Internet connection required).

-or-

Select View help from this Rack Power Manager server help location to access the

downloaded help from your local server. Complete the following procedure for Installing

Rack Power Manager help on a local server on page 36.

4. Click Save.