Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide

Main Window

 

 

The toolbars provide the buttons used for a number of high-level operations within PDS Remote Manager. Most other operations are available through dialog boxes that will be displayed (e.g., on a Player name or thumbnail image).

Networks and Groups Pane

The Networks & Groups pane shows a tree view of the hierarchy of networks and groups you can manage that are running on the PDS Server. Each network contains one or more groups (which may in turn have sub-groups).

The Network pane shows the Players defined within the network or group that is currently selected in the Networks & Groups pane. All the Players that are defined in the network or group will be shown, whether they are currently online or offline.

The Network pane has five tabs, allowing you to manage different aspects of these Players' operations:

The Connections tab shows you the Players that are currently connected to the PDS Server (online) as well as those offline Players that have been connected recently. The Player list is tabular, and you can select the sorting order for the list by clicking a field heading.

In the lower portion of the pane, the Connections tab will show you the list of users currently connected to the PDS Server.

The Player Status tab relates information on Player connectivity.

The Screenshots tab shows thumbnail views of the screenshots from the Players in the selected network or group. These thumbnails are refreshed regularly and will show the output from the Player as taken from the computer's graphics card. (The thumbnail refresh interval is set by the Auto-Refresh menu in the toolbar.)

The System Info tab provides some basic system information, such as software and operating system versions, for each Player.

The Packages tab shows the file download packages that have been defined for the selected network.

Events Pane

The Events pane shows a table of recent system events on the Players in the selected network, much like a shared log file. The most recent events will appear at the top of the table.

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