Automatic adjustment of display settings for remote viewing by an administrator
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam Joseph Piazza, Edward Stanley Suffern
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Abstract
A system and method automatically scale the resolution of video output of a selected workstation blade so that an administrator can view the video output by the selected workstation blade in the same format as it is displayed at the user terminal associated with the selected workstation blade. The video is automatically switched from a multi-screen display to a single-screen display for both the user and the administrator so that the administrator may see the video output regardless of differences between the displays the user and the administrator each have.
Claims15
A method of monitoring the video output of network nodes, comprising:
- selecting a workstation blade to be monitored;
- in response to selecting the workstation blade, automatically switching a video output of the workstation blade from a dual display format to a single display format;
- instructing the workstation blade to send the video output of the workstation blade in the single-display format to a user terminal associated with the workstation blade from one of two digital video ports of a video card associated with the workstation blade;
- instructing the workstation blade to also send the video output of the workstation blade in the singe-display format to an administrator terminal from a single analog video port of the video card associated with the workstation blade;
- displaying the video output sent to the user terminal on a single display of the user terminal;
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- displaying the video output sent to the administrator terminal on a single display of the administrator terminal.
A computer program product comprising computer usable program code embodied on a computer usable storage medium for monitoring video output of network nodes, the computer program product including:
- computer usable program code for receiving the selection of a workstation blade to be monitored and, in response, automatically switching a video output of the workstation blade from a dual-display format to a single-display format;
- computer usable program code for instructing the workstation blade to send the video output of the workstation blade in the single-display format to a user terminal associated with the workstation blade from one of two digital video ports of a video card associated with the workstation blade;
- computer usable program code for instructing the workstation blade to also send the video output of the workstation blade in the singe-display format to an administrator terminal from a single analog video port of the video card associated with the workstation blade;
- computer usable program code for displaying the video output sent to the user terminal on a single display of the user terminal;
- computer usable program code for displaying the video output sent to the administrator terminal on a single display of the administrator terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.