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Below you will find brief information for DSView software DSView 4. The DSView 4 software provides secure “point-and-click” browser-based access to control virtually any data center device using managed appliances from DSView software clients located anywhere in the world. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption may be used to encrypt data traveling within the DSView software system. Users may be authenticated through internal or external services such as LDAP, Active Directory, NT Domain, TACACS+, RADIUS and RSA SecurID.
Key Features
Web-based access and control
Secure authentication and communication
Unit and user management
Proxy server access
Virtual media
Dual stack support for IPv4 and IPv6
Virtual segregation of resources with DS Zones
Pages: 355 Avocent 4 User Guide
Brand: Avocent Category: Software Size: 8 MB
Languages: English
Table of contents
- 17 Product Overview
- 17 Features and Benefits
- 18 System Components
- 19 Third party products
- 19 Partner products
- 19 Supported Units
- 21 Target devices
- 22 Power devices
- 22 System Configuration
- 25 Installation
- 25 About Installation
- 25 Minimum requirements for the DSView software
- 26 DSView software and virtual environments
- 26 Before installing and configuring the DSView software
- 26 Avocent Customer Express (ACE) Account
- 26 DSView Software Activation
- 28 Installing the DSView Software
- 29 Upgrading the DSView Software
- 30 Configuring the DSView Software
- 31 Running the DSView Software
- 31 Minimum client requirements
- 32 Opening a client session
- 33 Regaining access
- 33 Uninstalling the DSView Software
- 33 Closing a DSView Software Session
- 34 Java Installation
- 35 Avocent Viewer Plug-in Installation
- 35 Installing the DSR Remote Operations Software
- 37 DSView Explorer Windows
- 38 Accessing Target Devices
- 38 Using the Side Navigation Bar
- 39 Using Windows
- 39 Sorting information in a window
- 39 Filtering information in a window
- 40 Saving information in a window
- 40 Using the Customize link in windows
- 42 Displaying pages
- 42 Printing a window
- 42 Refreshing a window
- 42 Using keyboard commands
- 45 Basic Operations
- 45 DSView Help
- 45 Configuring the DSView help location
- 46 Installing DSView help on a local server
- 46 Global System Properties
- 46 Legal Notice
- 47 PCI Compliance Configuration
- 48 Power Settings
- 48 Profiles
- 48 Changing user options
- 49 Changing your password
- 49 Choosing the serial session application
- 50 Specifying a user certificate
- 51 Specifying an SSH key
- 51 Enabling user credential caching
- 52 Built-in User Groups Roles
- 52 Preemption Levels
- 53 Internet Explorer Considerations
- 54 Managing ActiveX® controls
- 55 Video Viewer management
- 55 Security zones
- 57 Advanced Internet options
- 57 Certificates
- 58 System certificate policy and trust store
- 60 Integrated Windows Authentication
- 60 Firewalls
- 61 VPNs
- 62 NAT Devices
- 64 Licenses
- 65 Adding a new license key
- 66 System Information
- 66 ISV Partners
- 67 DSView Servers
- 67 Server Properties
- 68 Server certificates
- 72 Avocent proxy server
- 73 Server trap destinations
- 73 Client session information
- 74 DSView software modem sessions
- 75 Email
- 76 Unit status polling
- 76 Backing up and Restoring Hub Servers Manually
- 78 Spoke Servers
- 81 Replication
- 85 Authentication Services
- 85 Supported Authentication Services
- 86 DSView software internal authentication service
- 87 Active Directory external authentication service
- 92 Windows NT external authentication service
- 93 LDAP external authentication service
- 97 RADIUS external authentication service
- 99 TACACS+ external authentication service
- 102 RSA SecurID external authentication service
- 104 User Authentication Services Window
- 105 Units View Windows
- 105 Types of Units View windows
- 106 Topology view
- 107 Accessing Units View windows
- 108 Showing and hiding units
- 109 Units View windows fields
- 111 Multiple unit operations from a Units View window
- 112 Unit Overview Windows
- 114 Unit Status Window
- 115 Adding and Deleting Units
- 115 Adding Units
- 116 Wizards that add units
- 116 Adding a single managed appliance
- 118 Adding a single embedded appliance
- 119 Adding managed appliances from a range or list of IP addresses
- 121 Adding a generic appliance or an EVR1500 environmental monitor
- 121 Adding a target device
- 122 Deleting Units
- 122 Automatically deleting attached units
- 123 Synchronizing the DSView Software Database
- 123 Name Synchronization
- 123 Automatic name push
- 124 Automatic name pull
- 125 Manual name push
- 126 Manual name pull
- 127 Topology Synchronization
- 127 Automatic topology synchronization
- 128 Topology synchronization options in the Add Unit Wizard
- 129 Topology synchronization options in the Resync Wizard
- 129 Merging target devices
- 131 Merging or splitting cascade switches
- 131 Automatic Discovery
- 132 Automatic Inheritance for Group Memberships and Properties
- 133 Managing Units
- 133 Appliance Configuration Templates
- 133 Saving appliance configuration templates
- 134 Modifying appliance configuration template properties
- 134 Applying appliance configuration templates
- 135 Unit Properties
- 139 About Access Rights
- 141 How access rights can be assigned
- 141 Assigning Access Rights
- 141 Viewing Effective Access Rights
- 142 Managed Appliance Settings
- 143 Managed Appliance Status
- 144 Managed Appliance SNMP Settings
- 145 Target Device Services
- 146 Target Device Settings
- 147 Target Device Naming
- 148 IQ Module Settings
- 149 KVM Switch and Cascade Switch Settings
- 150 OSCAR interface settings
- 151 Local Account Settings
- 153 Embedded Units
- 153 Launching embedded unit sessions
- 154 Changing embedded unit credentials
- 155 Asset and Usage Reports
- 155 Asset
- 155 Usage
- 157 Power Devices and Power Device Sockets
- 157 Power Devices
- 159 Power Device Input Feed
- 160 Power Device Sockets
- 161 Power Control of Devices Attached to Power Devices
- 163 Unit Sessions and Connections
- 163 Managed Appliance Session Settings
- 163 Customizing the Appliance Sessions window
- 167 Active Sessions
- 167 All active sessions
- 168 Active sessions on a target device
- 170 Active modem sessions
- 171 Connections to Units
- 171 Connection display format
- 172 Renaming a managed appliance connection
- 173 Adding and deleting target device connections
- 173 Merging virtual and physical target device connections
- 175 Data Logging
- 176 Configuring Data Logging
- 176 Enabling the SSH server
- 177 Enabling the Syslog server
- 177 Enabling and disabling data logging on units
- 178 Verifying the data logging settings for each connection
- 178 Viewing and customizing the SSH server settings
- 179 Configuring the buffer warnings events as SNMP
- 180 Specifying where data log files will be stored
- 180 Archiving and deleting data log files
- 182 Viewing Data Log Files
- 185 SSH Passthrough Sessions
- 185 Configuring SSH Passthrough
- 186 Enabling SSH Passthrough
- 186 SSH port sharing
- 187 SSH Passthrough Sessions
- 187 Establishing an SSH Passthrough connection to a unit
- 189 Escape key sequence
- 190 Break sequences
- 191 Transferring read/write access
- 191 Disconnecting a session
- 191 Displaying session output
- 192 Supported service processor commands
- 193 Grouping Units
- 193 Site, Department and Location Groups
- 195 Custom Fields
- 197 Unit Groups
- 198 Unit group hierarchy
- 201 Adding or deleting a unit group
- 201 Changing the unit group properties
- 205 DS Zones
- 205 Managing and Accessing Zones
- 205 Enabling DS Zones
- 205 Creating zones
- 206 Accessing zones
- 206 Transferring units to a zone
- 207 Managing zone properties
- 209 Using Zones
- 209 Units actions in a zone
- 213 Managing User Accounts
- 213 User Accounts Windows
- 214 Adding User Accounts
- 216 Deleting User Accounts
- 216 Unlocking User Accounts
- 217 Resetting a User Account Password
- 217 Changing User Account Properties
- 217 Username
- 218 User certificates
- 218 User SSH key
- 219 User password
- 219 User account restrictions and expiration settings
- 220 User group membership
- 220 Preemption level
- 220 Address
- 221 Phone contact
- 221 Email contact
- 221 User notes
- 221 Custom field properties
- 222 User Access Rights
- 223 User Groups and User Roles
- 224 Adding User-defined User Groups
- 226 Deleting User-defined User Groups
- 227 User Group Properties
- 227 Changing User Group Members
- 228 User Group Access Rights
- 231 Using the Video Viewer
- 231 About the Video Viewer
- 232 Window Features
- 233 Opening a KVM Session
- 233 Opening an exclusive KVM session
- 234 Connecting to an existing session
- 235 Video Viewer session properties
- 235 Session time-out
- 236 Closing a Video Viewer Session
- 236 KVM Session Profiles
- 236 General profile settings
- 238 Cursor profile settings
- 239 Toolbar profile settings
- 239 Video profile settings
- 240 Managing KVM session profiles
- 243 Using Menu Commands to Manage Session Settings
- 243 General commands
- 244 Cursor commands
- 245 Toolbar commands
- 245 Video commands
- 246 Mouse scaling command
- 246 Avocent Mouse Sync
- 247 Manual Video Adjustment
- 249 Saving the View
- 250 Displaying Video Viewer Users
- 250 Scan Mode
- 250 About scan mode
- 251 Thumbnail Viewer features
- 253 Performing Thumbnail Viewer tasks
- 254 Macros
- 256 Macro groups
- 258 Power Control of Devices Attached to Power Devices
- 258 Using Virtual Media
- 259 Virtual Media dialog box
- 260 Virtual media session settings
- 260 Opening a virtual media session
- 262 Closing a virtual media session
- 262 Using Smart Cards
- 263 Video Viewer Troubleshooting
- 265 Using the Telnet Viewer
- 265 About the Telnet Viewer
- 265 Telnet Viewer Window Features
- 267 Telnet Viewer window toolbar
- 267 Security Property
- 268 Opening a Session
- 268 Customizing the Telnet Viewer
- 269 Customizing Session Properties
- 271 Login scripts
- 272 Reviewing Session Data
- 272 Macros
- 274 Macro groups
- 276 Logging
- 278 Copying, Pasting and Printing Session Data
- 279 Power Control of Devices Attached to Power Devices
- 279 Closing a Telnet Viewer Session
- 281 Using Tools
- 281 Using Unit Tools
- 281 Exporting units
- 282 Exporting access rights
- 283 Merging target devices
- 284 Merging target device endpoints
- 284 Using the Managed Appliance Tools
- 285 Rebooting
- 285 Upgrading firmware
- 286 Resynchronizing units
- 287 Saving a managed appliance configuration
- 287 Restoring a managed appliance configuration
- 288 Saving a managed appliance user database
- 288 Restoring a managed appliance user database
- 289 Using Tasks
- 289 Using the Tasks Window
- 289 Adding tasks
- 290 Specifying when to run tasks
- 292 Adding Tasks Using the Add Task Wizard
- 292 Task: Backup DSView software database and system files
- 293 Task: Configure SNMP trap settings on a managed appliance
- 294 Task: Exporting an event log .csv file
- 295 Task: Exporting an Asset Report to a .csv file
- 295 Task: Exporting a Usage Report to a .csv file
- 296 Task: Sending an IPMI chassis control command to target devices
- 297 Task: Test modem connections to selected units
- 298 Task: Updating the firmware of an appliance type
- 298 Task: Validating user accounts on an external authentication server
- 299 Task: Pull names from selected units
- 299 Task: Update topology for selected units
- 300 Running tasks manually
- 300 Displaying task results
- 301 Deleting tasks
- 301 Changing tasks
- 302 Firmware Management
- 305 Events and Event Logs
- 305 Event Severity and Categories
- 305 Event severity
- 306 Event categories
- 306 Email Notifications
- 308 Enabling and Disabling Event Logging
- 309 Displaying the Event Log
- 310 Event states
- 311 Using the date filter
- 311 Changing the Event Log Retention Period
- 312 Creating an Event Log .csv File
- 313 Plug-ins
- 313 Recommended Sequence for Adding/Upgrading Plug-ins
- 313 Adding Plug-ins
- 314 Displaying Plug-in Information
- 315 Managing Plug-ins
- 315 Upgrading a plug-in
- 316 Disabling and activating a plug-in
- 317 Technical Support
- 318 TCP and UDP Ports
- 318 KVM switch ports
- 320 Serial console appliance ports
- 321 DSView server ports
- 321 Avocent® Universal Management Gateway Appliance SP Proxy Server Ports
- 321 Generic appliance ports
- 322 External authentication ports
- 322 SNMP ports
- 324 DSR Remote Operations Software
- 325 Before using the DSR Remote Operations software
- 326 Installing the DSR Remote Operations software
- 327 Using the DSR Remote Operations software
- 328 Window features
- 330 Rebooting a switch
- 330 Managing servers
- 330 Power control of devices attached to power device sockets
- 332 Terminal Emulation
- 332 VT terminal emulation
- 332 VT100+ terminal emulation
- 333 VT102 terminal emulation
- 333 VT100 terminal emulation
- 337 VT220 terminal emulation
- 339 VT52 terminal emulation
- 340 VT320 terminal emulation
- 343 Glossary
- 343 Access control
- 343 Active Directory
- 343 ADSAP (Avocent DS Authentication Protocol) or ADSAP2
- 343 AIDP (Avocent Install and Discover Protocol)
- 343 Applet
- 343 Appliance
- 343 ASMP (Avocent Secure Management Protocol)
- 344 Attach device
- 344 Authentication
- 344 Authentication server
- 344 Authorization
- 344 AVSP (Avocent Video Session Protocol)
- 344 Browser session
- 344 Cascade device
- 344 Cascade switch
- 345 CCM appliance
- 345 Certificate authentication
- 345 Connection
- 345 CPS appliance
- 345 Database replication
- 345 DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
- 345 Digital Certificate
- 346 DSR switch
- 346 DSView management software
- 346 DSView server
- 346 DSView software client
- 346 DSView software client session
- 346 DSView software hub server
- 347 DSView software spoke server
- 347 DSView software system
- 347 Embedded appliance
- 347 Encryption
- 347 External authentication server
- 347 Flash
- 348 FRU (Field Replaceable Unit)
- 348 Graceful shutdown
- 348 Hotkey
- 348 HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- 348 HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- 348 HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- 348 Integrated windows authentication
- 349 IQ module
- 349 Java
- 349 KVM
- 349 KVM session
- 349 KVM session profiles
- 349 KVM switch
- 349 LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
- 349 Local port
- 350 Managed appliance
- 350 MIB (Management Information Base)
- 350 NAT (Network Address Translation)
- 350 NAT device
- 350 Negative hysteresis
- 350 OSCAR interface
- 351 Power device
- 351 Positive hysteresis
- 351 PPP (Point to Point Protocol)
- 351 SDR repository device
- 351 Serial console appliance
- 351 Serial session
- 351 Server
- 352 Session
- 352 Site
- 352 Smart card
- 352 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
- 352 SNMP manager
- 352 SSH Passthrough session
- 352 SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
- 352 Target device
- 353 Target device session
- 353 TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol)
- 353 Telnet session
- 353 Telnet Viewer
- 353 Tiered switch
- 353 UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
- 353 Unit
- 353 Video Viewer
- 353 VPN (Virtual Private Network)
- 354 (WAN) Wide Area Network
- 354 (WAS) Web Application Server
- 354 (Webapp) Web Application
- 354 Web server
- 354 X.509
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Frequently Answers and Questions
What are the minimum hardware requirements for the DSView software?
Please refer to the latest release notes for operating system and browser requirements. The hardware requirements depend on the number of target devices you are managing: Large (>7000 Target Devices), Medium (1000-7000 Target Devices), Small (<1000 Target Devices).
What is the difference between a hub server and a spoke server?
The hub server acts as the coordinator for database replication between itself and all of the other spoke servers in a DSView software system. A hub server and a spoke server both offer the same DSView software functionality to a user. The distinction of hub or spoke refers only to the database replication role that the server plays and not with the functionality that the server provides.
What is a license key and how does it work?
A license key permits the operation of the DSView software on the dedicated server. The license key also specifies the number of clients that may use the software and the number of spoke servers allowed on a system.
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