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5. To test any new password you’ve set, press “X” to return to the User Option
Menu, then press “X” again to exit the menu system altogether. If the
administrator password has been set correctly, a login prompt should now be
displayed. Log in using the username “admin” and the new password.
4.6.5 S
ETTING
S
ESSION
P
RIORITY
The Management Card can be accessed in either of two ways: either through a
keyboard/video/mouse user station attached to a User Card with On-Screen
Display, or through an Ethernet telnet session. However, only one of these session
types can be active at any given time. To assign which type of session (if any) gets
preferential treatment, you can assign a “session priority” scheme. There are three
settings available:
• The “Mutual Exclusion” setting establishes normal “first come, first served”
access: If a user on a User Card selects the Management Card first, any telnet
user attempting to select the Management Card will be denied access; they’ll
receive a “KVM console in use” message instead. And if a telnet user is the first
to select the Management Card, any User-Card users trying to switch to the
Management Card’s channel will remain on their previously selected channel
and will receive the message “Unable to select channel. Reason: Channel in
privacy mode.”
• The “Console Session” setting gives User-Card users higher priority all the
time, even if a telnet user is already connected to the Management Card. In
this setting, if a User-Card user selects the Management Card, any existing
telnet session will be closed and the telnet user will receive a “KVM console in
use” message. After that, any telnet user that tries to connect to the
Management Card during the User-Card user’s session will receive the same
message and will be denied access.
• The “Telnet Session” setting gives telnet users higher priority all the time, even
if a User-Card user is already connected to the Management Card. In this
setting, if a telnet user selects the Management Card, any existing User-Card
session will be closed and that user’s screen will go blank. They’ll have to
switch to another channel to resume operation. After that, any User-Card user
that tries to switch to the Management Card’s channel during the telnet user’s
session will receive a “Channel in privacy mode” message and will remain on
their previously selected channel instead.
