Avocent DSView 3 Scan Mode

244 DSView 3 Software Installer/User Guide

To display current Video Viewer users:

1. Select View - Connected Users from the Video Viewer menu or click the Connected Users

button. The Users Connected to <device - Video Session number> dialog box appears,

containing a list of all users connected to the Video Viewer window session.

2. Click OK to close the dialog box.

To display a list of users sharing a port or channel:

Select View - List of Shared Users in the Video Viewer menu. Users in stealth mode are excluded

from this display.

Scan Mode

To start scan mode:

In a Units View window (see Accessing Units View windows on page 98), select two or more target

devices that support KVM connections, then click Scan.

Scan mode will start and the Video Viewer windows will appear in the Thumbnail Viewer. A series

of thumbnail frames appear in the Thumbnail Viewer, each containing a small, scaled,

non-interactive version of a target device screen image.

Scan mode moves from one thumbnail image to the next, logging into a device and displaying an

updated device image for a specified length of time (View Time Per Server), before logging out of

that device and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You may specify a scan delay between

thumbnails (Time Between Servers). During the delay, you will see the last thumbnail image for all

devices in the scan sequence, though you won’t be logged into any devices.

When you first launch the Thumbnail Viewer, each frame will be filled with a white background

until a device image is displayed. An indicator light at the bottom of each frame displays the device

status. The default thumbnail size is based on the number of devices in the scan list.

Scan mode has a lower priority than an active connection. If you or another user are connected to a

device, that device will be skipped in the scan sequence, and scan mode will proceed to the next

device unless the Shared Connections Automatically option has been selected, in which case target

devices may be shared and will not be skipped in the scan sequence. No login error messages will

appear. After your interactive session is closed, the thumbnail will be included in the scan

sequence again.

You may disable a device thumbnail from the scan sequence. The thumbnail image remains, but it

is not updated until it is once again enabled.

When running scan mode, it is recommended that logging of the following events (enabled by

default) be disabled in the DSView 3 software system. Each thumbnail scan will result in the

logging of these events. The event log could grow to a huge size if the following events are enabled

and scan mode is run continuously for a lengthy amount of time: