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Contents
3.4 Setting Up the KVM
4 Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1Controlling Your System at the Analog Port . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2Viewing and Selecting Ports and Servers . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2.1Accessing the Main dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2.2 | Viewing the status of your appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 |
4.2.3Selecting servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2.3.1Selecting the previous server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2.3.2Disengaging the user from a server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2.4Soft switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2.4.1Configuring servers for soft switching . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2.4.2Soft switching to a server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3Navigating OSCAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4Configuring OSCAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.1Accessing the Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.2Assigning server names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4.2.1Accessing the Names dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4.2.2Assigning names to servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4.3Assigning device types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4.3.1Accessing the Devices dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.4.3.2Assigning a device type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.4.4Changing the display behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.4.4.1Accessing the Menu dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.4.4.2Choosing the default display order of servers . . . . . . . . . 24
4.4.4.3Setting a Screen Delay Time for OSCAR . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.4.5Controlling the status flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.4.5.1Accessing the Flag dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.4.5.2Determining how the status flag is displayed . . . . . . . . . 25
4.4.6Setting console security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.4.6.1Accessing the Security dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.4.6.2Setting or changing the password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27