CHAPTER 5: Operation: On-Screen Display

ServSwitch will begin displaying its currently selected screen saver (see

Section 5.4.1.C) over the whole screen. The Switch will not display any computer video, nor will it accept any keyboard commands, until a user logs in by entering the access password. (The “Enter password” box—but nothing else—will reappear as soon as a user begins typing in a password.) Factory default is no password.

5.5.3THE ACCESS TIMEOUT

Along with the access password (see the previous section), this option protects your unattended user stations from unauthorized use. If you’ve set an access password, specify a time of keyboard and mouse inactivity in minutes after which the user at any idle station is automatically “logged out.” When a user is automaticaly logged out this way, the “Enter password” box comes up, and so forth (again, see the previous section).

Possible values for the access timeout range from 1 minute to 999 minutes

(16 hours 39 minutes; this is actually the factory-default value). You can also disable the timeout by setting it to zero; in this setting, users will never be automatically logged out, so the “Enter password” box will only be displayed when users log out manually with the {ctrl] [L] command (see Section 4.3.12) and when you cycle power to the ServSwitch.

5.5.4SETTING THE PASSWORDS

When you select either “Configuration password” or “Access password” from this menu, this prompt appears:

New password

After you type in a password (up to eight ASCII characters long, case-sensitive— only asterisks will appear on your screen) and press [Enter], the ServSwitch displays this prompt:

Confirm password

If you type in the same string of characters at this prompt, the new password is accepted and saved. Otherwise, this message is displayed:

Invalid password

Hit escape to exit

Once you have successfully set these passwords, you should keep a record of them in a secure location; if nobody can remember a given password, you will have to call Black Box Technical Support for help to recover your system.

To remove either of these passwords, delete the password and press Enter with no text in the “New password” box.

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