Viewing And Selecting Ports And Target Devices - Avocent DSR Installer/User Manual

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Operating System
Fedora Core 6, 7 and 8
Mac OS ® X Tiger (10.4+)
NOTE: Mac OS X requires Firefox 1.5 or later.
Avocent recommends that the browser be kept up-to-date with the latest version.
A Video Viewer window allows you to control the keyboard, monitor and mouse functions of
individual target devices connected to the DSR switch in real time. You may also use
predefined global macros to perform actions within the Video Viewer window. For instructions
on how to use the Video Viewer, see Chapter 4 on page 89. Once the switch has been installed
and configured as described in Chapter 4 on page 15 and you have set the IP address, you are
ready to begin regular operation.

Viewing and Selecting Ports and Target Devices

Before you can begin a KVM session, you must first login to the DSR switch on-board web
interface.
To log in to the DSR switch on-board web interface:
1. Launch a web browser.
2. In the address field of the browser, enter the IP address or host name assigned to the DSR
switch you wish to access. Use https://xxx.xx.xx.xx or https://hostname as the format.
NOTE: If using IPv6 mode, you must include square brackets around the IP address. Use https://[<ipaddress>] as
the format.
3. When the browser makes contact with the switch, enter your username and password, then
click Login. The DSR Explorer Window will appear.
NOTE: The default username is Admin with no password.
Browser
Microsoft ®
Mozilla ®
Internet
version
Explorer
1.7.3 and
version 6.0 SP1
later
and later
No Yes
No No
Firefox ®
version
1.0 and
later
Yes
Yes