Avocent C Series Using the Hotkey Feature

20Digital Desktop System Installer/User Guide

Resetting the computer from the Desktop Appliance

If you have installed the optional RPC feature and your computer supports a Reset button, you can reset your computer from the Desktop Appliance. To do this, depress the Reset button on the front panel of the Desktop Appliance. Your attached computer will reset in three to five seconds.

Remote Power Remote Reset

Button Button

Figure 3.3: Resetting the Computer

Using the Hotkey Feature

You can initiate certain operations on the Digital Desktop System by using the Hotkey commands. When you enter a Hotkey command on a keyboard connected to the Desktop Appliance PS/2 keyboard jack, the Desktop Appliance acknowledges the command by blinking a pattern with the keyboard Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs. Table 3.1 shows available Hotkey commands and LED indications.

To use the Hotkey feature:

1.Activate the Hotkey feature by pressing and holding down the Scroll Lock key and then press- ing the F12 key. Release the two keys in any order. Initially all the keyboard lock status LEDs will blink to indicate that the Hotkey feature is active, followed by the patterns as shown in the following table.

2.Once the Hotkey feature is active, enter a Hotkey command. The LEDs will blink the pattern associated with the command.

3.Press Enter to execute the last valid Hotkey command. If the command you enter is not valid, the system will not execute an operation. Once the system executes a Hotkey command, the keyboard interface automatically exits the Hotkey feature.