Users Guide

Configuring and using virtual console

You can use the virtual console to manage a remote system using the keyboard, video, and mouse on

your management station to control the corresponding devices on a managed server. This is a licensed

feature for rack and tower servers. It is available by default in blade servers.

The key features are:

• A maximum of six simultaneous Virtual Console sessions are supported. All the sessions view the

same managed server console simultaneously.

• You can launch virtual console in a supported Web browser by using Java, ActiveX, or HTML5 plug-in.

• When you open a Virtual Console session, the managed server does not indicate that the console has

been redirected.

• You can open multiple Virtual Console sessions from a single management station to one or more

managed systems simultaneously.

• You cannot open two virtual console sessions from the management station to the managed server

using the same plug-in.

• If a second user requests a Virtual Console session, the first user is notified and is given the option to

refuse access, allow read-only access, or allow full shared access. The second user is notified that

another user has control. The first user must respond within thirty seconds, or else access is granted

to the second user based on the default setting. When two sessions are concurrently active, the first

user sees a message in the upper-right corner of the screen that the second user has an active

session. If neither the first or second user has administrator privileges, terminating the first user's

session automatically terminates the second user's session.