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CHAPTER 3: Installation
3.2.6 S
WITCHING FROM THE
K
EYBOARD
Your ServSwitch is now ready for operation using its default settings. To take full
advantage of the Switch’s features, refer to Chapter 4, which gives detailed
information about each of the ServSwitch commands, describing each command’s
function and keystroke sequence. For your convenience, this info is summarized in
Section 4.2. To begin switching immediately, however, just press and release your
keyboard’s left Control Key ([CTRL]), then—within the next two seconds—type in
your desired port number with the regular number keys (not the numeric keypad).
(This procedure is slightly more complicated if there are more than nine CPUs in
your Switch system; refer to Section 4.3.1.)
3.3 Cascading in ServSwitch Systems (IBM and Multiplatform Models Only)
In a normal cascaded ServSwitch system, the shared monitor(s), keyboard(s), and
mouse (mice) are directly attached to one or more “master” Serv-Switches, while all
the CPUs are indirectly attached through “submasters” (subsidiary ServSwitches,
ServSwitch Ultras, ServManagers, etc.) that provide port expansion but may or may
not perform any control functions of their own. When you cascade in this way, you
can expand your system to include up to 256 ports (sixteen 16-port submasters on
a 16-port master unit).
CAUTION!
To avoid platform- and peripheral-mismatch problems, take these
precautions:
1. In any application involving CPUs belonging to different platforms,
we recommend that you use multiplatform masters and submasters.
2. Do not try to cascade Apple only or Sun only ServSwitches. At
this time they do not support cascading.
3. If you attach any PC-only submasters to a multiplatform master,
make sure you attach only IBM PC compatible CPUs to those
submasters.
4. If you use any PC-only masters, we recommend that you use only
PC-only submasters. If you must use any ServManager or multiplatform
ServSwitch or ServSwitch Ultra submasters, make sure that you have
those submasters set for the keyboard and mouse type ([CTRL] Mxx
[ENTER]) you’re using, and make sure that those settings are saved in
the submasters’ NVRAM ([CTRL] K).
5. All of the CPUs attached to any PC-only submaster must use the
same type of keyboard and mouse.