User manual

28 PARAGON II USER MANUAL
PageUp and PageDown keys on your keyboard to move between the pages. Once you have selected a CPU
as described on the following pages, Paragon II will switch to that channel port. If “ID Display” is enabled,
a display will appear to identify the chosen channel port for the number of seconds set at the top of your
screen.
To choose a server from the Selection Menu:
1. Press F12 to toggle the menu to sort-order view of your choice (by channel port-ID number or
alphabetically by device name). The entry for the channel port you currently have selected (if any) will
be highlighted and will have a small red arrow to the left of its channel port name.
Note: In the channel port-ID view, the Selection Menu can display either all channel ports or only those
channel ports that the current user is allowed to select (the default view). If the system administrator has
set the “Display All Computers” option in the System Configuration menu (see Chapter 4: Operation –
Administrator Functions, System Configuration) to “Yes,” you can press F10 to toggle between the
restricted and unrestricted views. In the unrestricted “all channel ports” view, the Paragon displays a red
“S” next to the scan rate of any channel port that the user is not permitted to access.
2. Use the up- and down-arrow keys (and, for longer lists, the PageUp and PageDown keys) to move the
highlight bar to the channel port you want to select, and then press the Enter key. Note that although
the highlight will move, the small red arrow to the left of the channel port name will remain stationary,
indicating the user’s currently-selected channel port, until a new selection is made.
a. In channel port-ID view, once all channel ports page are assigned, you can press the desired
channel port’s key number (1 through 8) to move the highlight to that channel port instantly.
b. In name view, you can type the first few characters of the desired channel port’s name to move the
highlight to the first channel port whose name begins with that character sequence.
3. Press the Enter key to select a channel port. If there is a server CPU attached to the channel port that
you are permitted to access, Paragon II automatically switches you to that channel port for normal
server operation, and the OSUI disappears. If there is a cascaded Base Unit attached to that channel
port, an additional dedicated OSUI Selection Menu will appear for that device; keep moving through
the Selection Menu layers until you reach the CPU you want.
Note: To return to the main Selection Menu from any second- or third-tier device-specific Selection Menu,
press the Home key on your keyboard once, or press the Esc key once or twice depending which tier you
are currently on.
Once you switch to a different channel port, you can continue switching by pressing the hotkey (factory
default is Scroll Lock) twice rapidly to activate the Selection Menu. If you want to return to your
previously selected channel port without seeing any OSUI menus, press the “previous channel port”
command key (factory default is Num Lock) twice rapidly.
In the Selection Menu, each channel port’s availability is visually indicated by the following text colors.
(For additional information about Private Mode, Public View Mode, and PC Share Mode, please see the
section Operation Mode in Chapter 4: Operation – Administrator Functions, System Configuration.)
Black No device is connected or the connected device is powered OFF.
Green Server CPU is connected and the channel port is active and available.
However, if the Paragon system is in PC Share Mode, another user may
currently be accessing the server.
Red Channel port is unavailable, currently being accessed by another user.
(This happens only when the Paragon II system is in Private Mode.)
Yellow Channel port is unavailable for control (being controlled by another
user), but video can be viewed. (This happens only when the Paragon
system is in Public View Mode. Please refer to the paragraphs below for
information about other OSUI displays that appear when the system is in
Public View Mode.)
Purple A second- or third-tier cascaded Base Unit is connected to this channel
port (please see Chapter 2: Installation, Installing a Cascaded
Paragon System).
White Channel port’s current status is unknown. This should not happen if the
Paragon II is operating normally.