Scanning your servers – Dell KVM 1082DS User Manual

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Scanning Your Servers

Using the Thumbnail Viewer, you can set up a scan sequence of up to 16 servers
to monitor your servers. The scan mode moves from one thumbnail image to the
next, logging into a server and displaying an updated server image for a user-
specified length of time (View Time Per Server), before logging out of that
server and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You can also specify a scan
delay between thumbnails (Time Between Servers). During the delay, you will
see the last thumbnail image for all servers in the scan sequence, though you
won't be logged into any servers.

An indicator light at the bottom of each frame displays the status of the server.
The default thumbnail size is based on the number of servers in the scan list.

Figure 4.9: Viewer - Thumbnail Viewer

Scan mode is a lower priority than an active connection. If you have an
interactive session with a server, that server will be skipped in the scan sequence
and the scan mode will proceed to the next server. No login error messages will
appear. Once the interactive session is closed, then the thumbnail will be
included in the scan sequence again. If another user has an active connection to

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