Server side operations

Zilab Remote Console Server (ZRCS) provides several functions available on the server side during a session.

Reestablishing connections with 'pending' sessions.

The pending state is the state when a server side session remains active after network connection closing. Each user can have several sessions in the pending state on a server simultaneously.

Any session can be switched in the pending state under following conditions:

• The session has been created using ZRCG with the Keep remote session reconnectable option enabled or
  using ZRCC with included time-out (-t) command line option.
  
  
• The session has been disconnected from the server due to network error, user request or by the server administrator using Management Console disconnect function.
  

Note Session remains pending for the period provided in connection options. After time-out expiration, the session process and all child processes created during the session will be unconditionally terminated. ZRCS provides a clean process shutdown. This means that all attached dynamic-link libraries will be detached properly.

After successful logon, If there are any pending sessions for the user, user can resume pending session using server side menu.

Pending sessions menu (server side) sample.

Server provides following information for each pending session:

• Current title.
• Creation time stamp.
• Server session ID.

To resume pending session enter corresponding menu number.
To create new session enter 0 menu number.

If users from Administrators group are allowed to have access to inactive sessions they can switch to sessions of other users at logon.

Server provides following information for each pending session on logon of administrator:

• User name of the owner of the session.
• Current title.
• Creation time stamp.
• Server session ID.

 

Pending sessions menu for Administrators.

 

Server side applet

To activate server side applet [Shift] - [Esc] key combination anytime in the session.

To open applet menu press [F10].
To close applet press [Alt]-[X].

Applet menu:

Tools

Download File - Download file from the server.
Close applet

Sessions

New - Open new session
Switch - Switch to a pending session.
Disconnect - Disconnect from server.
Information - Display the session information.

Open new session

To open new server session, select Sessions->New and press [Enter]

On new session request the user will be prompted to enter the user name and password as on logon process.

Important: On new session request, the current session automatically switched to pending state.

Session switch

To switch to pending session, select Sessions->Switch and press [Enter]. In the dialog appeared select a session and press [Switch to].

If users from Administrators group are allowed to have access to inactive sessions they can switch to pending sessions of other users.

Important: On session switch, the current session automatically switched to pending state.

Session Information

To view a session information, select Sessions->Information and press [Enter].

The session information dialog displays the following information:

• User name.
• Session ID.
• IP address of client.
• Session creation time.
• State of the session and if state is pending the time of switching to the pending state.
• Session time-out value

  If the session established over secured connection the dialog displays the following additional information:

• Secure protocol name
• Cipher been used
• Algorithm strength
• Server public key length

File Download

To download file from the server open file download dialog (Tools->Download File).

In the appeared dialog enter a file name (with the full path) and press Open to start downloading or press Cancel to close the dialog.

To change the active dialog control use [Tab] key.

You can also use remote clipboard to enter file name. To paste a text from the clipboard, use [Shift]-[Ins] key combination.

Note The file download operation is the subject to ZRCS and the server file system security. To successfully start downloading the user must be a member of ZRCS file downloading group and have at least the read access to the file on the server file system.

Client dependent issues of file downloading

Zilab Remote Console Server GUI Client (ZRCG.exe) offers to save file to any available directory through the 'Save as' dialog. Download process can be monitored by the appeared 'Downloading' window or by the server side messages.

Zilab Remote Console Server Console Client (ZRCC.exe) saves downloaded file in the current directory. Download process can be monitored only by the server side messages.

Important: The file downloading is tied with the session. This means that the session close cancels all file transfer operations.