HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 User Guide

Both the Integrated Remote Console and the Remote Console applets send absolute and relative
mouse cursor coordinates to iLO 2. When iLO 2 is in High Performance Mouse mode, it discards
the relative coordinates and sends the absolute coordinates to the USB tablet mouse emulator. The
result is that the server "sees" the mouse move as if the coordinate information had originated from
a local USB tablet mouse. When iLO 2 is not in High Performance Mouse mode, the absolute
coordinates are discarded and the relative coordinates are sent to the USB relative mouse emulator.
High-Performance Mouse is supported only on operating systems that support USB tablet mouse.
Windows users must enable the High Performance Mouse option on the Remote Console Settings
screen. Linux users must enable the High Performance mouse option once the iLO 2 High
Performance Mouse for Linux driver is installed. Other operating system servers experiencing
Remote Console mouse trouble must disable the High Performance Mouse option.
When using Integrated Remote Console from iLO 2 and SmartStart, the local mouse and remote
mouse do not stay aligned. The High Performance Mouse setting must be disabled while in
SmartStart. If the local mouse and remote mouse get out of alignment while you are using the High
Performance Mouse feature, you can use the right Ctrl key to realign them. Alternatively, you can
use the Java Remote Console instead of Integrated Remote Console.
The High Performance Mouse option alleviates all mouse synchronization issues on supported host
operating systems. You can select this mode on the Remote Console Settings page before starting
a Remote Console. However, it might not be supported by all operating systems, particularly during
installation. For best performance:
• Select a lower remote server screen resolution to improve the performance of the Remote
Console. The maximum supported resolution is 1280 x 1024 pixels.
• Set the client screen resolution higher than the remote server resolution to maximize Remote
Console visibility.
• The color quality of the remote server has no effect on the performance of the remote console.
The Remote Console is rendered in 4096 (12-bit) colors.
• Use a non-animated mouse pointer on the remote system.
• Disable mouse trails on the remote system.
To configure the host server adjust the following settings in the Control Panel:
1. Select Mouse>Pointers>Scheme>Windows Default scheme. Click OK.
2. From the Mouse>Pointers page, select Enable pointer shadow. Click OK.
3. Select Display>Settings>Advanced>Troubleshoot>Hardware Acceleration>Full. Click OK.
4. Select System>Advanced>Performance Settings>Visual Effects>Adjust for best performance.
Click OK.
Alternatively, the HP online configuration utility (HPONCFG) can automatically adjust these settings.
You can also edit High Performance Mouse settings using the XML command
MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS. For more information about using the RIBCL command
MOD_GLOBAL_SETTINGS, see the HP Integrated Lights-Out Management Processor Scripting and
Command Line Resource Guide at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/
DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64179&
taskId=135&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=1146658.
Multi-user access to the Integrated Remote Console
Shared Remote Console is an iLO 2 feature that allows the connection of up to four sessions on
the same on the same server. This feature does not replace the Acquire feature described in
“Acquiring the Remote Console” (page 92), or allow full-access clients (read/write) to control
power. Shared Remote Console does not support passing server host designation to another user
or a failed user connection to reconnect after failure. You must restart the remote console session
to allow user access after failure.
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