Determining computer ports display and selection
When shipped, the SmartView World IP section will be configured to view only one computer port. With a full sixteen ports to choose from, this setting and several others need to be changed in order to make full use of the SmartView World KVM capabilities. For each KVM port, you can edit the names that are presented within the SmartView World home page and the Remote Console - It is most sensible to make them the same as they are within the KVM selection menu.
To set the number of KVM ports
1Within the SmartView World home page, select the ‘KVM Settings’ option in the ‘Server’ section. The User Management panel will be displayed.
2Use the ‘Number of Ports’ control to select the required number of KVM ports. Ordinarily, this will be 16 to equal the physical ports
on the SmartView World. However, when cascading a large number of switches and computers, it can be useful to create extra ports to access the systems lower down the cascade structure. The options here are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64.
3Click the Update button. A number of fields equal to the ‘Number of Ports’ setting will appear lower
down the panel. Each row allows you to define a name, KVM switching code (Hotkey) and an option to show the link as a button within the Remote Console. The section opposite deals with editing these items.
Note: For most systems you are recommended to select the default SmartView World configuration and then click the ‘Set Defaults’ button. This automatically fills in all the boxes with a suitable set of default values that makes configuration easier.
4 Click the ‘Apply’ button at the foot of the panel to save your changes.
To edit computer names and switching codes
1Within the SmartView World home page, select the ‘KVM Settings’ option in the ‘Server’ section. The KVM settings panel will be displayed. Dependant on the ‘Number of Ports’ control setting, between 1 and 64 rows of computer port entries will be displayed in the lower section of the panel. Here, for each port, you can define a name, KVM switching code (hotkey) and an option to show the link as a button within the Remote Console.
2For each port:
•Enter a name – this will be displayed within the SmartView World home page and also within the Remote Control window.
•Enter a KVM switching code (Hotkey) – this code will be passed to the KVM section to select the particular KVM port. It is essential that the code entered here matches those used by the KVM section.
The standard sixteen settings (e.g. CTRL+ALT+1, etc.) are correct, providing the standard hotkeys within the KVM configuration section are not changed (Main Menu / Configuration Menu / Setup Options
/Hotkeys). If the codes do not match then the various ports will not be selectable. For instance, if the KVM section hotkeys are changed to ‘CTRL + SHIFT’ then the Hotkey entry within this panel for port 8 must be ‘CTRL+SHIFT+8’ in order for Remote Console to switch to that system. The various KVM and IP hotkey settings are listed below:
KVM setting | IP section setting | Delimeters | |
CTRL+ALT | CTRL+ALT | + | |
CTRL+SHIFT | CTRL+SHIFT | KeyA+KeyB | |
means ‘press KeyA | |||
ALT+SHIFT | ALT+SHIFT | ||
together with KeyB’ | |||
ALT GR | ALTGR | > | |
L + R ALT | LALT+ALTGR | KeyA>KeyB | |
L CTRL+ALT | LCTRL+ALT | means ‘press KeyA | |
R CTRL+ALT | RCTRL+ALT | then KeyB’ | |
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Note: Addresses for cascaded computers should be entered as in their basic KVM form, with the addition of ‘+’ and ‘>’ delimiters between each character. For instance, (with the KVM hotkeys set to ‘CTRL and ALT’) a cascaded computer with address 41434108 would be entered as:
CTRL + ALT + 4 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 4 > 1 > 0 > 8
For KVM hotkey setting, see To change the KVM hotkeys for details.
•Select/deselect the ‘Show in Console’ checkbox – All ports are shown within the SmartView World home page, however, you have the option to include or exclude ports within the Remote Console window.
3 When all settings have been made, click the ‘Apply’ button to save.
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