Avocent AV Works, Installer/User Manual

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20 AVWorks Installer/User Guide
Accessing Appliances
Clicking the Appliances tab displays a list of the appliances currently defined in the local database.
To access an appliance, you may need to log into it by typing a username and password.
A username/password prompt appears if this is the first unit access attempt during the AVWorks
software session. After a unit is successfully accessed, subsequent access attempts for any unit that
uses the same username/password credentials during this AVWorks software session may or may
not prompt for a username and password, depending on the cached credentials settings. If
credentials are cached (stored), no prompt will appear. If credentials are not cached (or if the unit
uses different credentials than the cached ones), a prompt will appear. See
Managing Cached
Credentials on page 17 for information about credential caching.
Accessing the appliance launches the AMP for that appliance. For more information, see the AVR
AMP chapter beginning on page 65 and the CCM AMP chapter beginning on page 81.
To log in to an appliance:
1. Click the Appliances tab in the Explorer.
2. Double-click on an appliance in the Unit list.
-or-
Select an appliance, and then click the
Manage Appliance task button.
-or-
Right-click on an appliance. A pop-up menu appears. Select
Manage Appliance from the pop-
up menu.
-or-
Click an appliance in the Unit list and press
Enter
.
3. If a username and password prompt displays, type in your username and password. [If this is
the first appliance access since initialization or reinitialization, the default username is
Admin
(case sensitive) with no password.]
4. Click OK .
-or-
Click
Cancel to exit without logging in.
The appliance AMP launches.
Accessing Devices
The Devices tab displays a list of devices such as servers, routers and other managed equipment
that is defined in the local database. The Group Selector pane appears if two or more device types
are defined. Click
All Devices or click on a folder to view all devices of a particular type.
AVWorks software supports several device access methods: the built-in Video Viewer, the built-in
Serial Console Viewer, a third party Telnet client or a browser. The available method depends on
how the device has been configured.