- Raritan Paragon II User Guide

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Once you switch to a different channel port, you can continue switching by pressing the hotkey
(default: Scroll Lock, Scroll Lock) twice rapidly to activate the Selection Menu. If you want to
return to your previously selected channel port without seeing any OSUI menus, press the
“previous channel port” command key (default: Num Lock) twice rapidly.
In the Selection Menu, each channel port’s availability is visually indicated by the following text
colors. (For additional information about Private Mode, Public View Mode, and PC Share Mode,
please see the bullet item Operation Mode in Chapter 4: Operation – Administrator
Functions, System Configuration.)
Black No device is connected or the connected device is powered OFF.
Green Server CPU is connected and the channel port is active and
available. However, if the Paragon system is in PC Share Mode,
another user may currently be accessing the server.
Red Channel port is unavailable, currently being accessed by another
user. (This happens only when the Paragon II system is in Private
Mode.) A blocked matrix switch will be in red in Selection menu
(in order of channel number) either.
Yellow Channel port is unavailable for control (being controlled by
another user), but video can be viewed. (This happens only when
the Paragon system is in Public View Mode. Please refer to the
paragraphs below for information about other OSUI displays that
appear when the system is in Public View Mode.)
Purple A second- or third-tier cascaded Base Unit is connected to this
channel port (please see Chapter 2: Installation, Installing a
Cascaded Paragon System).
White Channel port’s current status is unknown. This should not happen
if the Paragon II is operating normally.
Light
Blue
Channel is connected and active, but is unavailable to access due
to lack of tier path. It works in Private mode only as ‘Blocked
Channels Identification’.
Black No device is connected or the connected device is powered OFF.
When the system is set to Public View Mode, if one user has already selected a server, another
user can also select it, but the second user can only view video output, not control it or input any
data with the keyboard and mouse. In this mode, other OSUI graphic elements will appear on
screen when you select various CPUs:
• When you select a server that someone else is already controlling, a message showing the
name of the server being viewed will appear on your monitor. It cannot be removed, but will
disappear after three seconds. Press ESC to return to the main Selection Menu.
• If another user chooses to view the video of a server you have already selected, you will see a
message bearing that user’s name for three seconds, twice – first when the second user begins
viewing and then when the second user stops viewing.
When the system is set to Private mode, “Blocked Channels Identification” is activated
automatically.
• When a blocked channel is detected, it will be displayed in light blue on Selection menu
(whether in order of channel number or name) on OSUI to distinguish from a channel that is
active and available to access (in green).
• When a blocked switch is detected, it will be displayed in red color in Selection menu (in
order of channel only) on OSUI to distinguish from a switch that has available path reach (in
purple).
• The ‘Blocked Channel/switch Identification’ is user station dependent. User login on
different user station may see different blocked channels.