Remote Session Operation (continued)

The OSD Toolbar (continued)

Panel Array Mode

Clicking the Panel Array icon on the OSD Toolbar or Control Panel invokes Panel Array Mode. Under this mode, the OSD divides your screen into a grid of panels:

Panel Array Toolbar

Each panel represents one B064-Series KVM Switch’s ports, beginning with Port 1 at the upper left and continuing from left to right and top to bottom.

When the Array is first invoked, it scans through each of the ports that were selected for Auto Scanning in the Port Select and Filter functions, and displays information about the port (port name, resolution, online status, port access status), at the bottom of the panel.

Note: The Panel Array scans at one-second intervals. The scan interval is not user definable.

The number of panels in the array can be increased or decreased by clicking the Show More Ports or Show Fewer Ports icons on the panel array toolbar.

If the computer connected to a port is on line, its screen displays in the panel. If not, the panel remains blank.

Only ports that are accessible to the currently logged in user are displayed. For ports that are not accessible, the panel is blank.

If you move the mouse pointer over a panel, information about the port displays at the bottom of the panel.

You can access a computer/server connected to a port by moving the mouse pointer over its panel and double-clicking. This will switch you to the computer exactly as if you had selected it from the OSD Main screen.

The Panel Array Toolbar provides shortcut navigation and control of the panel array. The icons in the Panel Array Toolbar are described below:

Icon

Description

Click this icon to keep the Panel Array Toolbar visible at all times. Click it again to make the toolbar disappear after a few seconds.

Click and drag any part of the toolbar that is not an icon to move the toolbar to another position on the screen.

Pause panel scanning, leaving the focus on the currently selected panel.

Click to move the focus of the Panel Array scan back four panels.

Click to move the focus of the Panel Array scan to the previous panel.

Click to move the focus of the Panel Array scan to the next panel.

Click to move the focus of the Panel Array scan ahead four panels.

Increase the number of panels in the array.

Decrease the number of panels in the array.

Toggle 4/3 aspect ratio.

Exit Panel Array mode.

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Tripp Lite B064-032-04-IPG, B064-032-02-IPG, B064-016-04-IPG, B064-016-02-IPG Panel Array Mode, Panel Array Toolbar

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