Log Out From The Ripc; Control Host Remote Access - Belkin OmniView Manuel De L'utilisateur

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USING YOUR RIPC

Log Out from the RIPC

This link logs out the current user and presents a new login screen. An
automatic logout will occur if there is no admin activity for a period of 30
minutes—following a prompt for re-entry of the password.

Control Host Remote Access

The Remote Access is the redirected screen, keyboard, and mouse of the
remote host system the RIPC controls.
Initiating Remote Access causes a pop-up window to appear that replicates the
screen of your host system. Remote Access will perform in much the same way
from a remote location as if you were sitting directly in front of the computer
itself. You will be able to use the keyboard and mouse in the usual way,
however, the remote system will react to keyboard and mouse actions with a
slight delay. The length of the delay depends on the bandwidth of the line over
which you are connected to the RIPC.
Remote Access Window Showing a Windows 2000 Desktop Screen
Note: You can circumvent communication issues between the local and remote
keyboards by adjusting the keyboard of your remote system to the same mapping as
that of your local one.
For example, if you are using a German administration system but your host
system uses a U.S. English keyboard layout, special keys on the German
keyboard will no longer function according to the local program, but will
recreate that of their U.S. English counterpart.
The Remote Access Java applet tries to establish its own TCP connection to the
RIPC. Its protocol is not HTTP or HTTPS, but another protocol called RFB
(Remote Frame Buffer Protocol). Currently RFB tries to establish a connection
to port number 443. Your local network environment must allow this
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connection to be made, i.e. if you are working over a private internal network
your NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall settings must be configured
accordingly. In other words, if the RIPC is connected to your local network
environment and your connection to the Internet is over a proxy server only,
failure to configure NAT correctly will make it very unlikely that the Remote
Access will be able to establish the connection. This is because web proxies
are not capable of relaying the RFB protocol.
If you are unsure about this issue, please consult your network administrator
for an appropriate network environment.
Remote Access window attempts to display the remote screen at its optimal
size, so that it may resize to match the remote screen initially, as well as
following a change of the remote screen's resolution. You can always resize the
Remote Access window using your local window system.
A control bar on the lower part of the Remote Access window houses a control
bar that displays Remote Access status and lets you adjust its settings. The
following table defines the Remote Access control options:
Control Description
Options Allows you to scale down the Remote Access. You can still use
Scaling the mouse and keyboard, however, the scaling algorithm will not
preserve all display details.
Options The submenu for mouse handling offers two options for
Mouse Handling synchronizing the local and the remote mouse pointers.
Options Opens a panel for changing the RIPC's video settings.
Video Settings
Hot Keys Special button keys to send the defined key combinations to the
remote system.
KVM Keys If defined in KVM Port Settings, you can switch the current KVM
port by sending the appropriate hot key to the KVM switch.
Read Option Toggles the read-only mode on and off. If the Monitor mode check
box is selected, the Remote Access will not accept any local input
for either keyboard or mouse. The symbol indicates whether or not
monitor mode is currently active.
Auto Adjust Starts the auto adjustment procedure to determine the settings
for best visual quality of the current image being displayed on
the RIPC.
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