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Opening a client session – Avocent DSView 3 User Manual

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16 DSView 3 Software Installer/User Guide

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One of the following operating systems:

Windows 2000 Workstation, Server or Advanced Server with the latest service package

Windows XP Home Edition or Professional

Windows 2003 Server Standard, Enterprise or Web Edition

Windows Vista Ultimate or Business

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 4 (AS, ES and WS products)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5

Sun Solaris SPARC 9 and 10

Novell

SUSE Linux (x86) Enterprise Server 9 or 10

Macintosh OS X version 10.4 and later

One of the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later web browser (Windows operating systems only)

Mozilla version 1.7.3 and later

Firefox version 1.0 and later; version 1.5 or later is required for Macintosh
operating systems

Netscape version 7.2 and later

If you are using Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape, the Video Viewer and the Telnet Viewer clients
require Java; see Java Installation on page 18.

Opening a client session

Before opening a client session

Enable cookies and JavaScript on the client’s web browser.

Configure the web browser. If you are using Internet Explorer, see Internet Explorer Consider-
ations
on page 39.

To open a client session:

NOTE: If DSView 3 Software Client Certificate Authentication or DSView 3 Software Client Integrated Windows
Authentication is being used, the user will not be required to log in. See Certificates on page 43.

1.

From the DSView 3 software client web browser, enter the URL of the server host in the
address bar in the format:

https:///dsview

In this case, is the DNS name of the host system, or the IP address in standard
dot notation (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).

NOTE: To avoid multiple security warnings, enter the DNS name.

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