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Navigating the Remote Console Switch Software . . . 65
Viewing Your System in the Explorer
. . . . . . . . 66
Explorer Window Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Adding a Remote Console Switch or Avocent Remote
Console Switch
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Accessing Your Remote Console Switch
. . . . . . . . 75
Launching the VNC or RDP Viewer
. . . . . . . . . . . 77
Changing Server and Switch Properties . . . . . . . . 78
Changing General Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Changing Server Network Properties . . . . . . . 80
Changing Switch Network Properties
. . . . . . . 81
Changing Information Properties
. . . . . . . . . . 83
Viewing Server Connections Properties . . . . . . 84
VNC properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
RDP properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Accessing a Server via a Browser Window . . . . 89
Changing Server and Switch Options . . . . . . . . . . 89
General options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
HTTP/HTTPS options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
VNC options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
RDP options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Organizing Your System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Modifying Custom Field Names
. . . . . . . . . . 95
Creating Folders
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Assigning a Unit to a Site, Location, or Folder . . . 96
Deleting and Renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Customizing the Explorer Window
. . . . . . . . . . . 99
Modifying the Selected View on Startup
. . . . . . 99
Changing the Default Browser
. . . . . . . . . . . 100