Basic operations

Connecting a user to a target device

 

 

3.3Connecting a user to a target device

Use the Main window of the OSCAR interface to select a target device to which you want to connect. When you select a target device, the keyboard and mouse are automatically reconfigured to the correct settings for that target device.

Press Print Screen to start the OSCAR interface, and then use one of the following procedures:

In the Main window, double-click the target device name, EID number, or port number.

-or-

Type the port number, and press Enter. -or-

Type the first few characters of the target device name or EID number, and press Enter.

You can toggle between two selected target devices. To select the previously selected target device, press Print Screen and press Backspace.

To disconnect the user from a target device, press Print Screen and press Alt+0. A Free status flag in the OSCAR interface indicates that the user is not connected to a target device.

3.4Using the OSCAR interface

This table describes the keys, key combinations, and mouse actions that you can use in the OSCAR interface. Two or more key names or mouse actions that are separated by commas indicate a sequence of actions. Two or more key names or mouse actions that are separated by a plus sign (+) indicate a combination of actions; that is, they are performed simultaneously.

You can use the main keyboard or the numeric keypad to type numerals, except when you use the Alt+0 key combination; you must use the 0 key on the main keyboard when you use Alt+0.

Key, key combination,

Result

or mouse action

 

 

 

Print Screen; Ctrl, Ctrl;

Start the OSCAR interface. To specify which key

Shift, Shift; or Alt, Alt

sequences can be used to start the OSCAR interface,

 

click Setup - Menu.

 

 

Print Screen, Print Screen

Send the Print Screen keystroke to the currently

 

selected target device. In other words, a screen capture

 

will be performed for the target device.

 

If Print Screen is not selected as startup key sequence

 

in Setup - Menu, you only need to press Print Screen

 

once to take a screen capture of the target device.

 

 

Table 2: OSCAR interface navigation basics

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Siemens KVM s2-0411 manual Connecting a user to a target device, Using the Oscar interface, Click Setup Menu

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