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Chapter 4: Operation - Administrator Functions

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Video Redirection (Forced Video)

Youcanhaveanyserversenditsvideo/keyboard/mousedatatoanyuser

stationotherthanyours.Thisfunctioniscalled“ForcedVideo”anditcan

beperformedusingeitherOSUIorParagonManager.

Asanadministrator,youcanauthorizespecificnormaluserstoperform

thisfunction.Bothoftheauthorizationandoper

ationoftheseuserscan

onlybedonethroughParagonManager.Inaddition,withParagon

Manager,youcanremotelyperformtheForcedVideofunction.See

ParagonManagerUserGuideforadditionalinformation.Thisuserguideis

availableonthe“UserManuals&QuickSetupGuides”CDandon

RaritanʹsPr

oductDocumentationwebpage

(http://www.raritan.com/support/productdocument

ation).

ThosewhohavethepermissiontoperformForcedVideoinclude:

• Administrator—theAdminaccount(bydefault)

• Userswithadministratorprivileges(bydefault)

• UserswhoareauthorizedtoperformtheForcedVideofunction;

however,theseusersmustoperatethefunctionthroughParagon

ManageronlyinsteadofOSUI

Illustration Example

Youareoperatingontheuserstation“A”asshowninthediagrambelow.

NowyoucanissuetheForcedVideocommandtodirectoneserverto

outputitsdatatooneoftheuserstationsconnectedtothesameParagon

IIswitchasyouruserstation.Itisimpossibletodi

recttheserverto

outputitsdatatouserstationsconnectedtoaParagonswitchotherthan

theBaseUnit—UMT‐1,suchasuserstation“E”or“F.”

Thepermitteddatadirectionisshownbelow:

• Datatransmittedfromoneofthebase‐tierservers(from1‐1to1‐3)

TOoneoftheuse

rstationsconnectedtoUMT‐1(BtoD)

—OR—