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SERVSWITCH™ DUO AND SERVSWITCH™ QUADRO
4.7.5 E
XCLUSIVE
U
SE
Accessed through: SETUP OPTIONS
Possible settings: ALLOWED (factory default), DISABLED
In normal operation, the Duo/Quadro will allow all users to share access to a
computer. In this mode, the computer’s video picture will be displayed on the
monitors of all users who select that port, but only one user may have active
control of the computer’s keyboard and mouse inputs at any one time. The
Duo/Quadro detects active users by looking for incoming keyboard and mouse
data from the user stations. A user becomes inactive if no keyboard or mouse data
has been received by the Duo/Quadro for a specified timeout period. If one user is
active and other users have selected same computer, the non-controlling users will
see a “video only” message displayed on their monitor screens.
There might be situations in which a user might want to take “exclusive use” of
computers: to control and view them privately, so that the other user is unable to
view that activity. The Duo/Quadro supports exclusive use, but this facility should
be used carefully. When exclusive use is requested, the video from the selected
computer is only available to the user with exclusive access. Users that have
selected exclusive access are never timed out by the Duo/Quadro, so the other
users are effectively “locked out” of the exclusive user’s computer until the
exclusive user switches to another computer or logs out. This could potentially be a
problem if, for example, a user turns on exclusive use, selects a critical shared
computer, and then leaves work for the day without logging out. This would
prevent other users from working on that computer until the following day.
If you don’t want this sort of thing to ever happen, you can disable exclusive use,
so that all activity by any user can be viewed by the other users.
4.7.6 A
UTOMATIC
L
OGOUT
Accessed through: SETUP OPTIONS
Possible settings: DISABLED (factory default), ENABLED
The ServSwitch Duo/Quadro allows you to take an extra precaution against
unauthorized computer access. If an authorized user forgets to logout when they
finish working with the computers attached to the Duo/Quadro system, their user
station might still have full access to the system, which could allow other people to
get at the computers. If you enable both the screen saver (see
Section 4.7.8 ) and
this option, the Duo/Quadro will automatically logout any user when there has
been no keyboard or mouse activity at their station for the duration of the screen-
saver timeout. The screen saver
must not be disabled, or automatic logouts will not
occur even if this option is enabled.