Device Setup - The "Connection Settings" Tab - NComputing L300 User Manual

NComputing L300 and L350 User Manual
Device Setup - The "Connection Settings" Tab
The Connection Settings tab allows administrators to determine exactly how the client goes about
looking for and connecting to available hosts. The client can be preset to connect to specific server
groups or configured to search for avaliable hosts within its network.
A "vSpace Server group" is a collection of one or more individual vSpace Server specified by a name that
is currently defined from inside each L300 or L350 device's setup interface.
If a server group contains only one name (or IP address), then the L300 or L350 device attempts to
connect to that server until successful or until the device is reset. If the server group contains more than
one name (or IP address), the device tries to connect to the first server in the list, and if no successful
connection is made, it attempts to connect to the second server in the list (i.e., the device does an "auto
failover" to the next server). If the device does not successfully connect to the second server in the list,
the it attempts to connect to the third device in the list, etc. When the L300 or L350 reaches the end of
the list, it starts again at the beginning of the "server group" and continues until a connection is made or
until the device is reset. (To allow for unusual requirements or server weighting algorithms, an individual
server name or IP address may exist in multiple places in the list.)
Whenever an L300 or L350 disconnects from a session, autoconnect (if set) begins at the top of the
connection cycle. The device does not keep track of the last server to which it successfully connected.
Issuing a device reset command from the NC-Console will also cause the autoconnect processing to
restart at the top of the cycle.
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