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Select Display on Menu.
5.
Click Close to exit the Macro Groups dialog box.
Macros in the selected group will appear in the Video Viewer window Macros menu.
To display a predefined macro group:
Select Macros - Display on Menu and then select one of the macro groups Sun or Windows.
Power Control of Devices Attached to Power Devices
NOTE: You must have Appliance Administrator privileges to issue a power control command.
If a target device is connected to a power device outlet (socket), you may power up, power down or
cycle (power up and then power down) the target device using the Power Control dialog box.
To power up, power down or power cycle a target device:
1.
Select Tools - Power Control from the Video Viewer menu. The Power Control dialog box will
appear.
2.
Click the Power On the Server, Power Off the Server or Power Cycle the Server button.
3.
A warning dialog box will appear. Confirm or cancel the operation.
4.
Click Close to close the dialog box.
Using Virtual Media
The virtual media feature allows the user on the client workstation to map a physical drive on that
machine as a virtual drive on a target device. The client may also add and map an ISO or floppy
image file as a virtual drive on the target device.
You may have one CD drive and one mass storage device mapped concurrently.
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A CD/DVD drive, disk image file (such as an ISO or floppy image file) is mapped as a virtual
CD drive.
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A floppy drive, USB memory device or other media type is mapped as a virtual mass storage
device.
For additional information, see Understanding and Using Virtual Media, which is available on the
DSView 3 software DVD and on the Avocent web site.
Requirements
The target device must be connected to the KVM switch that supports virtual media with an IQ
module that supports virtual media.
The target device must be intrinsically able to use the types of USB2-compatible media that you
virtually map. In other words, if the target device does not support a portable USB memory device,
you cannot map that on the client machine as a virtual media drive on the target device.