Avocent SPC420 General profile settings, Name, Default macro group, Keyboard pass through mode

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You may create any number of additional KVM session profiles and then assign them to target devices. When a new profile is created, it has all settings configured to Inherit Default Settings; that is, it uses all the settings from the default profile. The appliance administrator may then change only those settings that differ from the default profile. For example, a new profile may be identical to the default profile, except with different toolbar settings.

Some settings have a profile override option, which indicates whether users may override the profile information by using Video Viewer menu commands (see Using Menu Commands to Manage Session Settings on page 263). If the override option is disabled for a setting in the profile, the Video Viewer menu selection for that setting will be disabled for the target device using that profile. If a target device is not assigned a profile, a user with a Video Viewer connection to that target device may use the Video Viewer menu commands to control their session.

In addition to the profile override option, the color depth and video scaling settings have an option that can be enabled to prohibit the user from setting a higher value than the current setting. Enabling this option can improve bandwidth management.

A KVM session profile contains general, cursor, toolbar and video settings.

General profile settings

Name

A KVM session profile name uniquely identifies the profile. Profile names may contain 1-64 characters. No two KVM session profiles may have the same name.

Default macro group

The default macro group setting allows you to choose which global macro group will appear in the Video Viewer Macros menu. See Macros on page 274.

If you enable Allow users to override this setting, or if no profile is assigned to the target device, users may specify the default macro group using Video Viewer menu commands.

Keyboard pass through mode

The keyboard pass through mode setting enables or disables keyboard pass through.

Keystrokes that a user enters may be interpreted in two ways, depending on the screen mode of the Video Viewer window.

•If a Video Viewer window is in full screen mode, keystrokes and keyboard combinations are sent to the remote server being viewed.

•If a Video Viewer window is in regular desktop mode, keyboard pass through mode allows you to control whether the remote server or local computer will recognize certain keystrokes or keystroke combinations.

When keyboard pass through mode is enabled, keystrokes and keystroke combinations are sent to the remote server being viewed when the Video Viewer window is active. For Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems, all keystrokes and keystroke combinations are supported except Ctrl-Alt-