CHAPTER 4: BASIC OPERATIONS
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Viewing the status of your appliance
The status of the servers in your system is indicated in the right columns of the Main
dialog box. The following table describes the status symbols.
OSD Status Symbols
Symbol Description
SAM is online (green circle).
SAM is offl ine or is not operating properly.
Connected switch is online.
Connected switch is offl ine or is not operating properly.
SAM is being upgraded (yellow circle).
SAM is being accessed by the indicated user channel (green channel letter).
SAM is blocked by the indicated user channel (black channel letter).
Selecting servers
Use the Main dialog box to select servers. When you select a server, the appliance
reconfigures the keyboard and mouse to the proper settings for that server.
To select servers:
Double-click the server name, EID or port number.
-or-
If the display order of your server list is by port (Port button is depressed), type the
port number and press
Enter.
-or-
If the display order of your server list is by name or EID number (Name or EID
button is depressed), type the first few characters of the name of the server or the
EID number to establish it as unique and press
Enter.
To select the previous server:
Press
Print Screen and then Backspace. This key combination toggles you between
the previous and current connections.
To disconnect the user from a server:
Press
Print Screen and then Alt+Ø. This leaves the user in a free state, with no
server selected. The status flag on your desktop displays Free.
