Avocent DSView 3, Installer/User Manual

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3. Click Settings in the side navigation bar and then click Virtual Media . The Appliance Virtual
Media Session Settings window will open.
4. In the Session Lock area, enable the Virtual Media locked to KVM session checkbox if you
wish to close the virtual media session when the associated KVM session is closed. When this
feature is disabled an active virtual media session will remain active when the associated KVM
session is closed.
5. In the Drive Mappings area, choose an access mode from the Virtual Media Access Mode
menu: read-only or read-write.
When the access mode is read-only, the user will not be able to write data to the mapped drive
on the client machine. When the access mode is read-write, the user will be able to read and
write data to the mapped drive.
If the drive is a read-only drive (for example, CD/DVD drives or ISO images), the access mode
setting will be ignored. If the drive on the client machine is read-write (for example, a mass
storage device or USB removal media), setting read-only access mode will prevent the user
from writing data to the client machine.
6. In the Encryption Level area, enable one or more encryption levels for the virtual media
session: DES, 3DES, 128-Bit SSL or AES. Any combination of selections (or no selection)
is valid.
7. Click Save and then click Close . The Units View window will open.
Defining exit macros
Since clients are running remotely on PCs, certain commands must be sent to the controlled target
device using keyboard macros. For example, pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Delete
on your keyboard resets the
PC running the client rather than resetting the target device. To reset the target device, a macro is
needed. The DSView 3 management software provides numerous sequences pre-configured for
ease of operation.
Three kinds of macros are available: personal, global and exit. Personal macros and global macros
are created using the Video Viewer window. See
Macros on page 220.
Exit macros are supported on DS1800 digital switches and the following DSR switches: DSR1010,
1021, 1022, 1024, 1030, 1031, 2010, 2020, 2030, 2035, 4010, 4020, 4030, 8020, 8030 and
8035 switches.
Exit macros allow software administrators to create a macro that returns a target device to a known
state. They reside on the managed appliances and are executed whenever a DSView 3 software
session is terminated. For example, if a user is connected to a target device and the user closes the
Video Viewer session, an exit macro may be executed that resets the target device to a known state
by logging the user out of the target device session.
Exit macros may be created and maintained by any user with Configure Unit Settings access rights.
Different groups of exit macros may be created for each managed appliance in your system.