Raritan dominion kx III Administrator's Manual page 453

Question
Do I have to physically connect
Dominion KX III appliances
together?
Is CC-SG required?
Can I connect an existing analog
KVM switch to Dominion KX III?
Answer
Multiple Dominion KX III appliances do not
need to be physically connected together.
Instead, each Dominion KX III appliance
connects to the network, and they
automatically work together as a single solution
if deployed with Raritan's CommandCenter
Secure Gateway (CC-SG) management
appliance.
CC-SG acts as a single access point for
remote access and management.
CC-SG offers a significant set of convenient
tools, such as consolidated configuration,
consolidated firmware update and a single
authentication and authorization database.
Customers using CC-SG for centralized remote
access can make good use of the KX III's
tiering (cascading) feature to consolidate the
local ports of multiple KX III switches and
locally access up to 1024 servers from a single
console when in the data center.
For customers wanting stand-alone usage
(without a central management system),
multiple Dominion KX III appliances still
interoperate and scale together via the IP
network. Multiple Dominion KX III switches can
be accessed from the KX III Web-based user
interface.
Yes. Analog KVM switches can be connected
to one of Dominion KX III's server ports. Simply
use a USB computer interface module (CIM),
and attach it to the user ports of the existing
analog KVM switch.
Analog KVM switches supporting hotkey-based
switching on their local ports can be tiered to a
Dominion KX III switch and switched via a
consolidated port list, both remotely and in the
data center.
Please note that analog KVM switches vary in
their specifications and Raritan cannot
guarantee the interoperability of any particular
third-party analog KVM switch. Contact Raritan
technical support for further information.
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