Avocent DSView 3, Installer/User Manual

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Table of Contents v
Email......................................................................................................................................... 57
Unit status polling .................................................................................................................... 57
Backing up and Restoring Hub Servers Manually........................................................................... 58
Authentication Services.................................................................................................................... 60
DSView 3 software internal authentication service.................................................................. 61
Active Directory external authentication service ..................................................................... 63
Windows NT external authentication service ........................................................................... 67
LDAP external authentication service...................................................................................... 69
RADIUS external authentication service.................................................................................. 73
external authentication service............................................................................... 75
RSA SecurID external authentication service........................................................................... 77
Spoke Servers ................................................................................................................................... 79
Replication ....................................................................................................................................... 82
Chapter 4: Managing Units............................................................................................ 85
Units View Windows ........................................................................................................................ 85
Types of Units View windows ................................................................................................... 85
Topology view........................................................................................................................... 86
Accessing Units View windows................................................................................................. 88
Showing and hiding units ......................................................................................................... 88
Units View windows fields ........................................................................................................ 89
Multiple unit operations from a Units View window................................................................ 92
Unit Overview Windows .................................................................................................................. 94
Adding Units .................................................................................................................................... 95
Wizards that add units .............................................................................................................. 96
Adding a single managed appliance......................................................................................... 97
Adding a single embedded appliance ....................................................................................... 98
Adding managed appliances from a range of IP addresses ................................................... 101
Adding a generic appliance or an EVR1500 environmental monitor .................................... 102
Adding a target device ............................................................................................................ 102
Deleting Units ................................................................................................................................ 103
Name Synchronization ................................................................................................................... 103
Automatic name push.............................................................................................................. 104
Automatic name pull ............................................................................................................... 106
Manual name push.................................................................................................................. 107