Section 5

IP Access Configuration & Operation

5.7.4. KVM Settings

User Console

The following settings are user specific. This means the super user can customize these settings for individual users separately. Changing the settings for one user does not affect the settings for the other users.

User select Unit

This box displays the user ID for which the values are shown and for which the changes will take effect. You may change the settings of other users if you have the necessary access rights.

Transmission Encoding

The Transmission Encoding setting allows changing the image-encoding algorithm that is used to transmit the video data to the Remote Console window. It is possible to optimize the speed of the remote screen depending on the number of users working at the same time and the bandwidth of the connection line (Modem, ISDN, DSL, LAN, etc.).

Automatic detection

The encoding and the compression level are determined automatically from the available bandwidth and the current content of the video image.

Pre-configured

The pre-configured settings deliver the best result because of optimized adjustment of compression and colour depth for the indicated network speed.

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Manually

Allows adjustment of both compression rate and colour depth individually. Depending on the selected compression rate the data stream between the CAT-32 IP and the Remote Console will be compressed in order to save bandwidth. Since high compression rates are very time consuming, they should not be used when several users are accessing the CAT-32 IP simultaneously.

The standard colour depth is 16 bit (65536 colours). The other colour depths are intended for slower network connections in order to allow a faster transmission of data. Therefore compression level 0 (no compression) uses only 16 bit colour depth. At lower bandwidths only 4 bit (16 colours) and 2 bit (4 grey scales) are recommended for typical desktop interfaces. Photo- like pictures have best results with 4 bit (16 grey scales). 1 Bit colour depth (black/white) should only be used for extremely slow network connections.

Remote Console Type

Specifies, which Remote Console Viewer to use.

Default Java-VM

Uses the default Java Virtual Machine of your Browser. This may be the Microsoft JVM for Internet Explorer or the Sun JVM if it is configured this way. Use of the Sun JVM may also be forced (see below).

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