Adder Technology Switch Global Preferences, , Exclusive Use, Settings ALLOWED, DISABLED

Exclusive Use

Settings: ALLOWED, DISABLED

In normal operation, the SmartView World will allow two or more users to share access to a computer. In this mode, the computer’s video picture will be displayed on all the user’s monitors but only one user may have active control of the computer’s keyboard and mouse at any one time. The SmartView World detects an active user by looking for keyboard and mouse data.

A user becomes inactive if no keyboard or mouse data has been received by the SmartView World for a specified timeout period. Whilst one user is active all the other users that are connected to the same computer will see a “video only” message displayed on their screen. There may be situations where particular users want to be able to control and view their computers in private with exclusive use. The SmartView World has the facility to allow users to select exclusive use of computers but this facility should be used with care. When exclusive use is requested the video from the selected computer is only available to the user with exclusive access.

Users that have selected exclusive access are never timed out by the SmartView World and so all other users are effectively “locked out” until the exclusive user switches to another computer or logs out. This could potentially be very irritating if a user has selected exclusive use and has then left their desk without logging out. This would prevent other users from working on the computer until they came back. Consequently the system administrator can disable all exclusive use so that all connections are shared.

Automatic Logout

Settings: DISABLED, ENABLED

The SmartView World enables you to restrict access to your computers on a login basis. If a user forgets to logout when they have finished accessing the SmartView World then the user console may unintentionally be left with full access to all the computers. The SmartView World may be set to automatically logout unattended user consoles when the screen saver kicks in. This reduces the risk of security problems by preventing user consoles remaining in a permanent “logged-in” state when there is no keyboard or mouse activity. The automatic logout feature is only enabled when the screen saver feature is active (i.e. not disabled).

Global Preferences

Global preferences are available only to the Admin user and allow settings to be made that affect all users attached to the SmartView World.

To access Global Preferences:

1Select the on-screen menu in one of three ways:

•By simultaneously pressing and then releasing .

•By pressing the middle and right buttons of a three button mouse, or

•By selecting port using the front panel buttons

If you are not already logged in, do so now. What to do if the ADMIN password has been forgotten.

2 Press to select ‘More menus’.

3 Use to highlight ‘Global Preferences’ and press .

4 Use the following keys:

and to highlight required options.

to change option values. to quit and save the changes.

Mouse Switching

Settings: ENABLED, DISABLED

Like most Adder Technology KVM switches, the SmartView World’s channel may be switched using a three button mouse or IntelliMouse. Pressing the central button or wheel button together with the left hand mouse button will cause the SmartView World to switch to the next available computer. When mouse switching is enabled the central mouse button or wheel mouse button is allocated to control the SmartView World and is not therefore available for use by computer applications. If you want to use the central mouse button within your applications you will need to disable mouse switching. The rotation action of an IntelliMouse wheel is not affected and is always available to the computer application.

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