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SECTION 2: Selecting a Computer
2. Selecting a Computer
Immediately after you login, the Summit’s OSUI displays the Selection Menu. If
you’re already logged in, you’ll need to bring up the Selection Menu by pressing
the hotkey (the factory default is [Scroll Lock]) twice in quick succession, then
pressing function key [F2].
The Selection Menu lists devices sorted either by channel-ID number (“Ch. ID”),
as shown in Figure 2, or alphabetically by the name of the computer or other
device on that channel (“Name”), as shown in Figure 3 on the next page. Toggle
between these two views by pressing [F12]. Default sorting is by channel-ID
number, but unless the system is re-initialized, the last selected sort order will be
shown the next time that the Selection Menu is activated. As for the other columns
in the channel-ID view, “No” is the channel’s “key number” (internally assigned by
the Summit and not changeable by the user) and “Scn” is its current individual
scan-delay time in seconds (set by the admin) unless the channel has a subsidiary
Base Unit attached to it, in which case the Scn column will show “- -”.
The Selection Menu can display eight channels per page; it will show you how
many total pages there are, and which of them you’re viewing, in its upper right-
hand corner (“Page 2/5” for the second of five pages, for example). Use the
[PageUp] and [PageDown] keys on your keyboard to move between the pages.
Once you’ve selected a CPU as described on the following pages, the Summit
system will switch to that channel; if you’ve enabled it (see
Section 3
), an “ID
Display” (shown in Figure 4) will pop up on screen to identify the chosen channel
for the number of seconds you’ve set.
Figure 2. The Selection Menu ordered by channel number.
Selection Menu
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No Ch.ID Name Scn
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1 01 03
2 02 NT40-Mail 03
3 03 Wins95_Bob 03
4 04 Wins98_Jack 03
5 05 Matrls_8x32 --
6 06 NT40-Fax 03
7 07 Mrktng_8x32 --
8 08 PubSrv_8x32 --
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3 03 Wins95_Bob 03
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