Users Guide
■ Alt+F4
■ Alt+F5
■ Alt+F6
■ Alt+F7
■ Alt+F8
■ Alt+F9
■ Alt+F10
■ Alt+F11
■ Alt+F12
■ PrntScrn
■ Alt+PrntScrn
■ F1
■ Pause
■ Tab
■ Ctrl+Enter
■ SysRq
■ Alt+SysRq
■ Win-P
○ Aspect Ratio — The HTML5 virtual console video image automatically adjusts the size to make the image visible. The
following configuration options are displayed as a drop-down list:
■ Maintain
■ Don’t Maintain
Click Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
○ Touch Mode — The HTML5 virtual console supports the Touch Mode feature. The following configuration options are
displayed as a drop-down list:
■ Direct
■ Relative
Click Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
● Virtual Clipboard - Virtual clipboard enables you to cut / copy / paste text buffer from virtual console to iDRAC host
server. Host server could be BIOS, UEFI or in OS prompt. This is a one-way action from client computer to iDRAC's host
server only. Follow these steps to use the Virtual clipboard:
○ Place the mouse cursor or keyboard focus on the desired window in the host server desktop.
○ Select the Console Controls menu from vConsole.
○ Copy the OS clipboard buffer using keyboard hotkeys, mouse, or touch pad controls depending on the Client OS. Or, you
can type the text manually in the text box.
○ Click Send Clipboard to Host.
○ Then, the text appears on the host server's active window.
NOTE:
○ This feature is only available in Datacenter license.
○ This feature only supports ASCII text.
○ Control characters are not supported.
○ Characters such as New line and Tab are allowed.
○ Text buffer size is limited to 4000 characters.
○ If more than maximum buffer is pasted, then the edit box in iDRAC GUI will truncate it to maximum buffer size.
● Keyboard — The difference between physical and virtual keyboard is that virtual keyboard changes its layout according to
the browser language.
● Touch Mode — The HTML5 virtual console supports the Touch Mode feature. The following configuration options are
displayed as a drop-down list:
○ Direct
○ Relative
Click Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
● Mouse Acceleration — Select the mouse acceleration based on the operating system. The following configuration options
are displayed as a drop-down list:
○ Absolute (Windows, latest versions of Linux, Mac OS-X)
280
Configuring and using virtual console