OSD Toolbar Icons

9.Windows Client (continued)

9.4Port Operation

Select a port on the OSD Main Screen either by moving the highlight bar to it with the Up and Down Arrow keys and pressing Enter, or by double-

clicking it. Once you select a port, its screen displays on your monitor, and your keyboard and mouse input affects the remote system.

9.4.1 OSD Toolbar

The OSD provides a toolbar to help you control the KVM switch remotely.

To bring up the toolbar, tap the OSD Hotkey (Scroll Lock or Ctrl) twice.

The toolbar appears in the upper left corner of the screen:

Depending on the settings that were selected under ID Display (see section 7.4), the Port Number and/or the Port Name display at the right of the toolbar.

Note: Click on a free area of the toolbar and drag to move it around the screen. When the toolbar displays, mouse input is confined to the toolbar area and keyboard input has no effect. To carry out operations on the computer connected to the port, close the toolbar by clicking the X on it; or, recall the OSD and select the port again.

9.4.2 OSD Toolbar Icons

The meanings of the toolbar icons are explained in the table below.

Icon	Function
	Click to skip to the first accessible port on the entire installation without having to invoke the OSD.

	Click to skip to the first accessible port previous to the current one without having to invoke the OSD.

	Click to begin Auto Scan Mode. The KVM switch automatically switches among the ports that were selected for Auto Scanning under
	the Configuration Scan Select function (see section 7.4). This allows you to monitor their activity without having to switch among them
	manually.

	Click to skip from the current port to the next accessible one without having to invoke the OSD.

	Click to skip from the current port to the last accessible port on the entire installation without having to invoke the OSD.

	Click to bring up the OSD.

	Click to close the toolbar.

	Click to logout and exit the Windows Client application.

	Click to invoke Panel Array Mode (see section 9.4.3).

9.4.3 Panel Array Mode

Clicking on the OSD Toolbar’s Panel Array icon invokes Panel Array Mode. Under this mode, the OSD divides your screen into a 4 x 4 grid of

16 panels:

•Each panel represents one of the KVM switch’s ports. Starting with Port 1 at the upper left; going from left to right; top to bottom; Port 16 is at the lower right.

•When the Array is first invoked, it scans through each of the ports that were selected for Auto Scanning under the Configuration page’s Scan Select function (see section 7.4), and displays information about the port

(port name, resolution, on line status, port access status), at the bottom of the panel.

Note: The scan duration in panel array mode is not user-defineable. It defaults at a scan duration of 1 second.

The number of panels in the array (16, 9, 4, or 1) can be selected by clicking Show More Ports (+), and Show Fewer Ports (-) on the panel array toolbar.

•If the computer connected to a port is on line, its screen displays in its panel, otherwise the panel is blank.

•Only ports that are accessible to the currently logged in user are displayed (see User Management, section 7.6.1). All other panels are blank.

•If you move the mouse pointer over a panel, information about the port displays at the bottom of the screen.

•You can access a computer connected to a port by moving the mouse pointer over its panel and clicking. You switch to the computer exactly as if you had selected it from the OSD Main screen.

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