Black Box iPATH ACR1000A-CTL-24 User Manual page 40

4.7.2 CHANNELS > ADD OR CONFIGURE A CHANNEL
From the View Channels page, you can add a new channel or configure an existing channel:
• To create a new channel: Click the "Add Channel" option.
• To configure an existing channel: Click
The Add and Configure pages are similar in content.
Channel Name, Description and Location
These are all useful ways for you to identify the channel and its origins. A consistent naming and description policy is particularly
useful in large installations.
Video, Audio, USB and Serial
These drop down boxes list all of the available streams from installed locals. When creating a channel, you can choose to take all
four streams from the same local or from different ones, as required.
Notes: Where necessary, channels can be created without video, audio, USB and/or serial.
Only one remote can use a local's serial port at any time.
Sensitive
This will mark the channel as sensitive within the OSD channels list.
Allowed Connection
This section allows you to define the types of connection that you wish to permit users to make. You can define particular
individual or combined connection types to suit requirements.
Note: This setting for each channel acts as the final arbiter of whether exclusive access can actually be achieved. If you deny
exclusive access rights within this setting, then exclusive access for any user cannot take place for this channel, regardless of
settings made elsewhere.
• Inherit from global - uses the setting of the "Allowed Connection Modes" option within the
• Video-Only: Allows users only to view the video output, the USB channel is denied.
• Shared: Allows users to control a system in conjunction with other users.
• Exclusive: Grants exclusive control to one user while all others can simultaneously view and hear, but not control, the output.
• Private: Allows a user to gain private access to a system, while locking out all others.
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