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84 PARAGON II USER GUIDE
Autoscan and Autoskip
As an administrator, you can press F6 to turn autoscanning on and off. When autoscanning is
turned on and you press Esc to leave the OSUI screen, Paragon switches sequentially and
automatically from one channel port to the next, displaying each channel port’s video for the
duration of the user’s global scan rate or the channel port’s individual scan rate (see User Profile
Custom
ization in Chapter 3), starting over at port 1 when it reaches the last channel port.
In a cascaded system, when the scan reaches a channel port to which a subsidiary Paragon switch
is attached, it “drops down” to the subsidiary’s channel ports and scans them before resuming
with the higher-level channel ports.
To stay on a given channel port while Paragon is switching between channels one by one due to
autocanning, you must turn off autoscanning. Press the hot key (default: Scroll Lock) twice
quickly to trigger the OSUI when the desired channel is displayed and press F6 to turn off the
function. The word “Scan” at the bottom of the OSUI menus will appear in black when autoscan
is off or yellow when autoscan is on.
In Paragon II’s default setting, autoscanning will display all channel ports (including vacant ones,
which are not connected to any devices), except those occupied by servers that the user has no
rights to access, that is, the servers that are not in one of the user’s permitted groups – see the
section Group Settings (Access Rights) in this chapter. To allow a user to se
e servers that he or
she cannot otherwise access, an administrator must set “Display All Computers” to “Yes” (see the
section System Configuration in this chapter). To force the system to skip over vacant cha
nnel
ports, an administrator must turn on autoskipping.
After logging into Paragon II, administrators can press F7 to turn autoskipping on and off. When
autoskipping is on, Paragon will automatically skip vacant channel ports during autoscanning or
when a user tries to switch to such a port manually. The word “Skip” at the bottom of the OSUI
menus will appear in black when autoskip is off or yellow when autoskip is on.
Power Management
An administrator can control power to connected devices directly via the Paragon II OSUI. To
use the power management features of Paragon II, you will need Raritan’s Remote Power Control
Unit in one of the four models, depending on your needs:
PRODUCT FAMILY NUMBER OF
OUTLETS
RACK SPACE CORRESPONDING DEVICE
TYPE OPTION IN THE OSUI
PCR8/8A series 8 1U rack mount PCR8
PCS12/12A series 12 0U vertical mount PCS12
PCS20/20A series 20 0U vertical mount PCS20
*PCR20/20A series 20 2U rack mount PCS20
* Please note the corresponding device type for model PCR20/20A series is the “PCS20” option
in the OSUI.
A special Raritan Power CIM (P2CIM-PWR) is available for use with this kind of power strip.
Attach this CIM to the RJ45 port on the Power Strip, and then connect the power strip into an AC
source. Connect the CIM to one of the channel ports on a Paragon switch.