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Chapter 7: Operation - Administrator Functions
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Autoscan and Autoskip
As an administrator, you can press F6 to turn autoscanning on and off.
When autoscanning is turned on and you press Esc to leave the OSUI
screen, Paragon sequentially and automatically switches from one
channel port to the next, displaying each channel port's video for the
duration of the user's global scan rate or the channel port's individual
scan rate (see User Profile Customization (on page 77)), starting over
at port 1 wh
e
n it reaches the last channel port.
In a cascaded system, when the scan reaches a channel port to which a
subsidiary Paragon switch is attached, it “drops down” to the subsidiary's
channel ports and scans them before resuming with the higher-level
channel ports.
To stay on a given channel port while Paragon is switching between
channels one by one due to autoscanning, you must turn off
autoscanning. Press the hot key (default: Scroll Lock) twice quickly to
trigger the OSUI when the desired channel is displayed and press F6 to
turn off the function. The word “Scan” at the bottom of the OSUI will
appear in black when autoscan is off or yellow when autoscan is on.
In Paragon II's default setting, autoscanning will display all channel ports
(including vacant ones, which are not connected to any devices), except
those occupied by servers that the user has no rights to access, that is,
the servers that are not in one of the user's permitted groups—see the
section Group Settings (Access Rights) (on page 116). To allow a user
to see serve
r
s that he or she cannot otherwise access, an administrator
must set “Display All Computers” to “Yes” (see the section System
Configuration (on page 101)). To force the system to ski
p over v
acant
channel ports, an administrator must turn on autoskipping.
After logging into Paragon II, administrators can press F7 to turn
autoskipping on and off. When autoskipping is on, Paragon will
automatically skip vacant channel ports during autoscanning or when a
user tries to switch to such a port manually. The word “Skip” at the
bottom of the OSUI will appear in black when autoskip is off or yellow
when autoskip is on.
Power Management
An administrator can control power to connected devices directly via the
Paragon II OSUI. To use the power management features of Paragon II,
you need Raritan's power strips in one of these models, depending on
your needs:
Product family Number of
outlets
Rack space Corresponding device
option in the OSUI
DPCR8 series 8 1U rack mount PCR8