Chapter 2: Installation 41
• 650 MHz Pentium or equivalent processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 10 or 100BaseT NIC (100 recommended)
• XGA video with graphics accelerator
• Desktop size setting of at least 800 x 600
• Color palette of at least 256 colors
• One of the following operating systems:
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Server or Terminal Server with Service Pack 6a or later
• Windows 2000 Workstation, Server or Terminal Server with Service Pack 2 or later
• Windows XP Home Edition or Professional
• Windows 2003 Server Standard, Enterprise or Web Edition
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (WS v3, AS v3, ES v3; kernel version 2.4.21)
• One of the following browsers:
• Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later web browser (Windows operating systems only)
• Mozilla version 1.7.3 and later
• Firefox version 1.0 and later
• Netscape version 7.2 and later
If you are using Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape, the Video Viewer and the Telnet/SSH applet
clients require Java; see Java Installation on page 43 for more information.
Before opening a client session
• Enable cookies and JavaScript on the client’s web browser.
• Configure the web browser. If you are using Internet Explorer, see Configuring Internet
Explorer on page 22 for more information.
To open a client session:
NOTE: If DSView Software Client Certificate Authentication or DSView Software Client Integrated Windows
Authentication is being used, the user will not be required to log in. See Using certificates on page 27 for
more information.
1. From the DSView software client web browser, enter the URL of the server host in the address
bar in the format:
https://<servername>/dsview
In this case, <servername> is the IP address of the host system, in standard dot notation
(xx.xx.xx.xx) or the DNS name.
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If you are opening the session on the DSView software server, you may also select Start -
Program Files - Avocent DSView 3.0 - DSView Software.