Remote Control

Use the Remote Control task to manage a remote system by displaying the screen image of the managed system on a management console. You can cut, copy, and paste text on both the managed system and the management console.

Remote Control has three control modes:
Active
Remote-control mode. A management console controls the managed system, and the user of the managed system loses all use of the keyboard and mouse. Only one management console can be in control of a managed system in the active state; all other attached management consoles can monitor the managed-system display only.
Monitor
View-only mode. A management console that is attached to the managed system display the screen image and cursor movements of the managed system.
Suspend
View-only mode without image refresh. A management console that is attached to the managed system displays only the screen image of the managed system. The screen image that is displayed on the management console does not change when the screen image changes on the managed system.
Icon Remote
Control task
Supported IBM® Director objects Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems Windows® only.

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations Cannot be used on SNMP devices.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task None
Related tasks
Changing remote-control states
Changing the refresh rate
Playing a recorded remote-control session
Recording a remote-control session
Restricting remote-control usage
Sending key combinations
Starting a remote-control session
Transferring the clipboard
Related reference
Remote Control window

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