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SERVSWITCH™ OCTET INSTALLER/USER GUIDE
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OSD tabs
The OSD consists of five main tabs: Target, User, Console, Admin and ?.
Target
The Target tab lists the target devices that can be accessed from your Octet user station
and the available modes for these target devices.
User
Use the User tab to control and configure your system at the local port. The User tab
screens enable you to change your password, change scan dwell time, set the target flag
layout, select target device hotkey functions and configuring the audio and
serial features.
Console
The Console tab is used to configure local settings for the Octet user station including
country specific keyboard layout and keyboard type. In addition, you may configure the
hotkey sequences, inactivity time and enable or disable persistent mode.
Admin
The Admin tab displays options for editing user and target device information. Only users
with Administrator rights can access editing screens to configure user and target device
information for the Octet switching system. Any user can access editing screens for the
local server. The Admin tab includes a Users Admin screen and a Device Admin screen.
• Users Admin – This screen allows the Administrator to add, edit and delete users,
assign rights to each target device and force user login. For more information about
user administration, see
Users on page 58.
• Device Admin – This screen allows the Administrator to edit the device name, the
keyboard emulation and layout and the Octet server access module MDM
configuration for cascaded switches. Changes to the target device name are
propagated to the Octet server access module immediately. The Administrator can
also configure the audio and serial emulation for the selected device.
?
The ? tab provides access to the OSD help and displays the software version and name of
the user station.
4.2 Target Devices
Target devices that are attached to the switching system are displayed on the Target tab.
You can select a target device in Shared, Private, Scan or Maintain connection modes. If
you have not logged in successfully to the Octet switching system, the target devices
attached to the user station will not display in the target device list. You can access the
target devices by double-clicking on
Matrix System in the list and then logging in again.
Connection modes
Shared
If two or more users need to access the same target device, they can share access to it
through the Octet switch. Sharing allows multiple users to view a target device channel at
the same time, but only one can enter data through the keyboard or mouse at any given