Document Outline

• The matrix switches of the »DVICenter« series
  • Operation
    • On-screen display
  • Configuration
    • On-screen display
    • The »Config Panel« web application
• Getting started
  • User login at the matrix system
  • Changing your password
  • Accessing a target module via on-screen display
  • Disconnecting the target module
  • User logout at the KVM matrix system
  • Starting the functions of the »Operation« menu via hotkeys
  • Selecting the hash algorithm for storing passwords
• The On-Screen Display (OSD)
  • Calling the on-screeen display at a console
  • The general OSD structure
    • Colour-coded target module names
    • Displaying the status condition
  • Operating the OSD via keyboard or mouse
    • Keyboard operation
    • Mouse operation
  • OSD functions
    • Search function
    • Changing the sort criteria of the list entries
    • Limiting the entries using the view filter
    • Showing an additional column in the Select menu
  • Configuration
    • Changing the hotkey to call the on-screen display
    • Opening the on-screen display via double keypress
    • Adjusting the on-screen display’s transparency
    • Adjusting the information display
    • Changing the colour of the information display
    • Defining a standard view filter
    • Changing the display‘s position
    • Changing the OSD position
    • Selecting a keyboard layout for on-screen display entries
    • Operating the on-screen display by mouse
    • (De)activating the on-screen display
• Overview of the menus and functions
  • Select menu
  • Operation menu
  • Personal Profile menu
  • Configuration menu
  • Information menu
• Accessing target modules (basic functions)
  • Accessing a target module via on-screen display
  • Returning to the previously accessed target module
  • Disconnecting the target module
  • Enhanced functions
    • Automatically accessing a target module
  • Messages when accessing a target module
    • »No free route to target«
    • »No route to target known« or »Unknown route to target«
    • »Target not available«
• Accessing target modules via select keys
  • Accessing a target module using select keys
  • Changing the select key modifier and the valid keys
  • Administrating select key sets
    • Creating a select key set
    • Changing the name and global allocation of a select key set
    • Defining the select keys for the target modules
    • Assigning a select key set to a user account
    • Deleting a select key set
  • Push events
  • Triggering push events
  • Changing push event key modifiers and valid keys
• Switching the target modules automatically or manually
  • Auto scanning all target modules (Autoscan)
    • Applying the Autoscan function
    • Configuring the scantime of the Autoscan function
  • Auto scanning all active target modules (Autoskip)
    • Applying the Autoskip function
    • Configuring the scantime of the Autoskip function
  • Scanning the target modules manually (Stepscan)
    • (De)activating the Stepscan function
    • Switching between the target modules
    • Configuring keys to scan the targets manually
  • Administrating the scanmode sets
    • Creating a scanmode set
    • Changing the name and global allocation of a scanmode set
    • Assigning the target modules to a scanmode set
    • Assigning a scanmode set to a user account
    • Deleting a scanmode set
• Users and Groups
  • Efficient rights administration
    • The effective right
    • Efficient user group administration
  • Administrating user accounts
    • Creating a new user account
    • Renaming the user account
    • Changing the user account password
    • Changing the user account rights
    • Changing a user account’s group membership
    • (De)activating a user account
    • Deleting a user account
  • Administrating user groups
    • Creating a new user group
    • Renaming a user group
    • Changing the user group rights
    • Administrating the user group members
    • (De)activating a user group
    • Deleting a user group
  • Rights regarding the user account
    • The »Superuser« right
    • Changing settings in the »Personal Profile« menu
    • Changing your own password
• Target groups and view filters
  • Difference between target groups and view filters
    • Intended use of target groups
    • Intended use of target groups
  • Administrating target groups
    • The »New Targets« target group
    • Creating a new target group
    • Renaming a target group
    • Administrating the target group members
    • Deleting a target group
  • Administrating view filters
    • Creating a new view filter
    • Assigning a target module to a view filter
    • Renaming a view filter
    • Deleting a view filter
• Target modules
  • Adjusting the access and config rights
    • Accessing a target module
    • Accessing a target group
    • Access mode when simultaneously accessing a target computer
    • Access to USB devices
    • Rights for configuring the target modules
    • Rights to reset or reactivate a PS/2 mouse
  • Basic configuration of the target modules
    • Renaming a target module
    • Deleting a target module from the KVM matrix system
    • Copying the target module config settings
  • Settings for special hardware
    • Choosing the USB keyboard type
    • Support for servers of IBM’s RS/6000 series
    • Defining the EDID profile to be used
    • Reducing the colour depth of the image data to be transmitted
  • Enhanced functions
    • Remembering the last target module
    • Displaying »Multiuser« information
    • Activating or resetting a PS/2 mouse
    • Resetting the video profiles of a analog target module
    • Viewing the route information of the target module
• User modules
  • Operating modes of user modules
    • Standard operating mode
    • Open Access operating mode
    • Video operating mode
    • Selecting the user module’s operating mode
  • Basic configuration of the user modules
    • Renaming a user module
    • (De)activating the user module
    • Enabling/disabling the keyboard support for user modules
    • Copying the user module config settings
    • Deleting a user module from the matrix system
  • Settings for special hardware
    • Adjusting the scancode set of a PS/2 keyboard
    • Activating the support for special PS/2 keyboards
    • Support of any USB device
    • Reinitialising USB input devices
  • Enhanced functions
    • Setting the auto user logout
    • Auto-disconnecting the access to a target module
    • Activating or resetting a PS/2 mouse
    • Viewing technical information about the user modules
    • Remembering the username in the login box
    • Setting the hold time for the screensaver
• Administrating EDID profiles
  • Importing the EDID profile of a monitor
  • Renaming the EDID profile of a monitor
  • Deleting the EDID profile of a monitor
  • Defining the EDID profile to be applied for a target module
• Power switch
  • Switching the power outlets assigned to the target
  • Rights administration
    • Rights for switching the power outlets of a target module
    • Rights for switching the power outlets of a target group
  • Configuration
    • Assigning a power switch power outlet to the target module
    • Renaming a power switch
    • Deleting a power switch from the matrix system
• Special functions for cascaded KVM matrix systems
  • Basic functions
    • Renaming the master matrix switch
    • Renaming the slave matrix switch
    • Deleting a slave matrix switch from the system
  • Configuration settings
    • Defining the cascade mode of a matrix switch
    • Forwarding target names to the slave matrix switches
• Expanding switchable signals
  • Expanding through channel grouping
  • Expanding through stacking
    • Adjusting the bus address of matrix switches
• Shared editing
• System settings and functions
  • Basic configuration
    • Renaming the matrix switch
  • Network settings
    • Configuring the network ports
    • Configuring global network settings
    • Resetting the netfilter rules
  • Enhanced functions
    • Freeze mode
    • Reading out the status of the network interfaces
    • Checking the availability of a host in the network (Ping)
    • Resetting the default settings
    • Adjusting the RS232 mode and the baud rate of the service port
  • Retrieving information about the system
    • Hotkey settings
    • Displaying firmware information of the matrix system
    • Displaying dynamic port information of the matrix system
    • Displaying hardware information of the matrix switch
    • Displaying cable information
  • Rights administration
    • Login rights for the »Config Panel« web application
  • Optional premium functions
    • Activating a premium function
    • Displaying the premium functions
• Push-Get function (optional)
  • Moving the screen content (Push)
    • Moving the monitor content to another user module
    • Stopping the moving of the screen content
  • Getting the screen content (Get)
    • Getting the screen content from another user module
    • Changing a user account’s »Push-Get right«
• IP-Control-API (optional)
  • Supported functions via API and text-based control
• Controlling the matrix switch via XML
  • Structure of a valid XML document
  • Selecting devices
  • Use of device IDs
  • Use of port names
  • Responses and messages of G&D devices
    • Responses of G&D devices
    • Messages of G&D devices
  • Combining multiple commands in an XML document
  • Push notifications of connections and disconnections
  • Configuration and encryption
    • Configuring accesses of devices for XML control
    • Instructions for encrypting passwords
  • Commands
    • User logon and user logoff
    • Establishing a connection to a target module or disconnecting a connection
    • Switching the channel of the target module »DVI-CON-2«
    • Showing messages
    • Opening or closing the OSD
    • Redirecting keyboard and mouse data
    • Listing information about devices and connections
    • Requesting monitoring values
• Tradeswitch function (optional)
  • Switching keyboard and mouse signals
  • Basic configuration
    • Creating Tradeswitch workplaces
    • Renaming a Tradeswitch workplace
    • Deleting a Tradeswitch workplace
    • Changing the Tradeswitch key and the valid keys
  • Detailed configuration of a Tradeswitch workplace
    • Assigning devices to a Tradeswitch workplace
    • Defining the master workplace of the Tradeswitch workplace
  • Enhanced functions
    • (De)activating the Tradeswitching information display