Exclusive Mode - Dell PowerEdge 180AS User Manual

• Right-click on the target device. Select Connect Video from the pop-
up menu.
• Select the target device and press Enter.
When another user is viewing this target device, a message indicates that
the target device is already involved in a KVM session.
If connection sharing is enabled on the switch and your access rights (as
compared with those of the primary user) allow it, you are prompted to
either share or preempt the existing session.
1 If the option is available, select Share.
2 Complete one of the following steps:
• Click OK or Yes. If Automatic Sharing is not enabled, a share request
is sent to the primary user, who can accept the share request as either
an active or passive (read-only) session, or reject the share request
entirely.
• Click No to cancel the share request.
If the primary user accepts the share request, or if Automatic Sharing is
enabled, a KVM session to the target device session opens, and the session
type icon within the new Video Viewer window indicates if the session status
is active or passive. If the request is rejected, a message indicates that the
request was denied. Administrators have several options at this point. They
can either try to connect again and preempt the session or connect in stealth
mode, or they can terminate the session entirely.
If you are not prompted to connect in share mode, either the switch to which
the target device is connected is not configured to allow digital share mode
sessions or it is not a Remote Console Switch.

Exclusive Mode

If session sharing and exclusive connections are enabled, you can create an
exclusive KVM session. When operating a session in exclusive mode, you
cannot receive any share requests from other users. However, administrators
can choose to preempt (or terminate) the session or monitor the session in
stealth mode.
If other users are sharing the session when you select Exclusive Mode, you are
warned that selecting Exclusive Mode will cause the other users to become
disconnected from the session.
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