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9.1 Activating the OSD

9. Windows Client

After you have successfully logged in (section 8.1), activate the browser-

based Windows Client OSD by doing the following:

Click the

1.

button at the left of the Webpage.

Note: You must have DirectX 7.0 or higher installed on your computer. If not, the Windows

Client will not load. If you don’t already have it, DirectX is available for free download

from Microsoft’s Website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads.

When the file download security warning dialog box appears, click

2.

Run.
If a second security warning dialog box appears, click

3.

Run again.

Note: If the browser cannot run the file, save it to disk, instead. Then, with your browser still

open to the KVM switch Webpage, run the file from your disk. If you use the

save to disk

method, for security purposes, you cannot simply run a previously downloaded version

of the program. Each time you want to access the KVM switch, you must log in to the

Webpage with a valid username and password to download a fresh copy of the program.

When a connection to the KVM switch has been established, the screen

4.

opens to the Windows Client OSD with the Main page and Windows

Client Control Panel

displayed:

Before you Begin
The first time you run the program, you may want to make some display

configuration changes. To do so, click the curved Arrow icon on the

Control Panel at the lower right of the remote display. A screen similar to

the one below appears:

There are three buttons: Config, Switch, and Exit. Their actions are

described in the table below:

Button

Action

Config

Brings up the Graphics Configuration dialog box, which
allows you to set up the graphical environment. The Graphics
Configuration dialog box is discussed in the next section

Switch

Switches you to the Windows Client OSD. The Windows
Client OSD is discussed in section 9.2.

Exit

Ends the program and closes the application.

Graphics Configuration Dialog Box
The dialog box is organized into two main parts: Screen Option and

Snapshot.

Screen Options
Screen Options lets you set up the way the remote display appears on the

local monitor:

If

Full Screen Mode

is enabled (the box is checked), the remote display

fills the entire screen.
If

Full Screen Mode

is not enabled (the box is not checked), the remote

display appears as a window on the local desktop. If the remote screen

is larger than what is able to fit in the window, move the mouse pointer

to the screen border that is closest to the area you want to view and the

screen will scroll.
If

Keep Screen Size

is enabled (the box is checked), the remote screen is

not resized.
If

Keep Screen Size

is not enabled (the box is not checked), the remote

screen is resized to fit the local monitor’s resolution.
If the remote resolution is smaller than that of the local monitor, its

display appears like a window centered on the screen.
If the remote resolution is larger than that of the local monitor, its

display is centered on the screen. To access the areas that are off screen,

move the mouse to the corner of the screen that is closest to the area you

want to view and the screen will scroll.

Snapshot
These settings let the user configure the KVM switch’s screen capture

parameters (see section 9.3, Windows Client Control Panel).

Path lets you select a directory that the captured screens automatically

get saved to. Click Browse; navigate to the directory of your choice;

then click OK. By default, the captured screens get saved to your

desktop.
Click a button to choose whether you want the captured screen to be

saved as a BMP or a JPEG (JPG) file.
If you choose JPEG, you can select the quality of the captured file with

the slider bar. The higher the quality, the better looking the image, but

the larger the file size.

Finishing Up
After you have finished making your configuration settings:

Click

1.

OK to close the dialog box.

Click

2.

Switch to go back to the Windows Client OSD Main page.

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