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Setting
Description
Access
The
Access
setting determines if an account is allowed to access the selected port, and if so, what level of access the
account has. To edit this setting, click on the box in the Access column next to the account you wish to edit. Continue to
click until you toggle to the desired setting.
Full Access –
This setting is represented by an icon that shows a pair of glasses and a pencil. It allows the
corresponding account to both view video and perform operations on the selected port.
View Only –
This setting is represented by a pair of glasses only. It allows the corresponding account only to view video
of the selected port.
No Access –
This setting is represented by an X, and denies the corresponding account access to the selected port.
Mount USB
The
Mount USB
setting determines if an account is allowed to access the virtual media functionality on the selected
port, and if so, what level of access the account has. To edit this setting, click on the box in the
Mount USB
column next
to the account you wish to edit. Continue to click until you toggle to the desired setting.
Full Access –
This setting is represented by an icon that shows a pair of glasses and a pencil. It allows the
corresponding account to both read and write to virtual media mounted to the selected port.
View Only –
This setting is represented by a pair of glasses only. It allows the corresponding account only to read
virtual media mounted to the selected port.
No Access –
This setting is represented by an X, and denies the corresponding account access to virtual media
mounted to the selected port.
Config
The
Config
setting determines if an account has permission to make changes to the master KVM or port configuration
settings. To edit this setting, click on the box in the
Config
column next to the account you wish to edit. Click to toggle
Config
access on/off. A check mark enables access, an X disables access.
Note: Config checkboxes are provided as
a way for Super Administrators and Administrators to customize which ports Administrators and User accounts have
Configuration access to. In order for the Config checkbox to enable Configuration access to a port, the Administrator
or User account must be given Port Configuration access to the KVM switch. (See
Permissions
in the
Adding User
Accounts
section under
User Management
in
OSD Operation
for details.)
OSD Operation
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Access
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When you are done editing access rights to the selected port, click on the
Save
icon in the lower-right corner of the
Access
sub-section.
Also at the bottom of the page are
Copy
and
Paste
icons. These are used to copy the access settings from one port and paste those same settings
to another port. To do this, simply highlight the port you want to copy and click on the
Copy
icon. Then highlight the port you want to paste to
and click the
Paste
icon.
Port Configuration
The
Port Configuration
sub-section allows Super Administrators and Administrators to edit port properties settings, assign system macros to a
port, and add/remove associated links. When the master KVM is highlighted and the
Port Configuration
sub-section is selected, the following
screen appears.
The only setting that appears on this page is the
Occupy Timeout
setting. This setting controls the amount of inactivity time before a
port that is set to
Occupy
(see
Port Property
section on the following
page for details) is opened for access by another user. Enter in a value
from 0 to 255 seconds. The default is 3 seconds.
When a standard port is highlighted and the
Port Configuration
sub-
section is selected, a screen opens up that contains two sections;
Port
Property
and
Associated Link
. The
Port Property
section is opened
first by default.
