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Save Changes
Save changes permanently
Undo Changes
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Soft Keyboard
Opens up the sub-menu for the Soft-Keyboard:
Show
Pops up the Soft-Keyboard. The Soft-Keyboard is necessary in case your host system runs a
completely different language and country mapping than your administration machine.
Mapping
Used for choosing the language and country mapping of the Soft-Keyboard.
Local Keyboard
Used to change the language mapping of your browser running the Remote Console Applet.
Normally, the applet determines the correct value automatically. However, depending on your
particular KVM and your browser settings this is not always possible. A typical example is a
German localized system that uses a US-English keyboard mapping. In this case you must
manually change the local keyboard setting to the correct language.
Hotkeys
Opens a list of previously defined hotkeys. Choose
one entry; the command will be sent to the host
system.
A confirmation dialog can be added that will be
displayed before sending the selected command to
the remote host. Select OK to perform the command
on the remote host.
Encoding
These options are used to adjust the encoding level in terms of compression and colour depth.
They are only available if "Transmission Encoding" is determined automatically (see the Section
called Transmission Encoding in Chapter 5.4).
Compression Level:
You may select a value between 1 and 9 with level 1 enabling the fastest compression and level
9 the best compression. The most suitable compression level should always be seen as a
compromise between the network bandwidth that is available, on your video picture to be
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transferred, and on the number of changes
between two single video pictures. We recommend
that you use a higher compression level if the
network bandwidth is low. The higher the
compression level the more time is needed to pack
and unpack the video data on either side of the
connection. The compression quality depends on
the video picture itself, e.g. the number of the
colours or the diversity of pixels. The lower the
compression quality, the more data have to be sent
and the longer it may take to transfer the whole
video picture.
If level 0 is chosen the video compression is disabled, completely.
The option "Video Optimized" has its advantages if transferring
high-quality motion pictures. In this case the video compression is
disabled, completely and all video data is transferred via network
as full-quality video snippets. Therefore, a high amount of
bandwidth is required to ensure the quality of the video picture.
The next two options allow you to set the compression level to a
predefined level OR to set a level for "lossy" compression. This
compresses well, but leads to degradation in image quality.
Colour Depth:
Set the desired colour depth. You may select between 8 or 16 bit for Video
Optimized/compression level 0, or between 1 and 8 bit for compression
levels 1 to 9. The higher the colour depth, the more video information has to
be captured and to be transferred.
Note: If displaying motion pictures on a connection with low speed you may achieve an
improvement regarding the video transfer rate by lowering the colour depth and disabling the
option "Video Optimized". As a general result, the data rate is reduced (less bits per colour).
Furthermore, the OPMA module will not have to do any video compression. In total, this will
lead to less transfer time of the motion picture.
4.3.3 Remote Console Status Line
Status line
Shows both console and the connection state. The size of the remote screen is displayed. The
example below was taken from a Remote Console with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. The
value in brackets describes the connection to the Remote Console. Norm means a standard
connection without encryption, SSL indicates a secure connection.
Furthermore, both the incoming (In:) and the outgoing (Out:) network
traffic are visible (in kb/s). If compressed encoding is enabled, a value in
brackets displays the compressed transfer rate.
For more information about Monitor Only and Exclusive Access settings, see the relevant
sections.
