Entering The Channel Addresses Of Your Pcs - Black Box ServLink ACR3500A Manual

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The first thing you'll need to do to enable the ServLINK to switch between your
PCs is to tell it what each PC's assigned KVM-switch channel address is. (If you're
only attaching a single PC to the ServLINK, you need to tell the ServLINK that the
PC doesn't have a channel address instead.) The "channel address" or "port address"
of a PC CPU in a KVM-switched system is the name or number—usually associated
with a particular switch channel or CPU port—that you give to the KVM switch in a
keystroke command in order to get the KVM switch to switch to that PC. Take
these steps to enter a PC's address into the ServLINK's memory:
1. Turn ON the ServLINK if you haven't done so already. It should automatically
run pcANYWHERE and the ServLINK application, so that the main menu of
the ServLINK is displayed (see Figure 6-2 at the start of Chapter 6 for a
picture of the menu).
If you only have a single PC attached to the ServLINK, skip ahead to
step 9.
2. Pull down the Keyboard menu and select "Create Keyboard Macros."
3. Click the "Add" button.
4. In the "Macro Description" field, type in the address of the channel (port) on
the KVM switch that the PC is attached to. Note that this entry is just a
description—you'll be creating the actual keyboard-command macro that the
ServLINK will use in the next few steps—so you can include words such as
"Enter" that describe other keystrokes in the switching command or what
have you. Here are a few sample addresses for various ServSwitch models (see
your switch manuals for more details about how addressing works):
• Regular ServSwitch, ServSwitch™ Ultra, ServSwitch™ Affinity, Matrix
ServSwitch™, and compatible models: No matter how many switches and PC
CPUs are in your system, the master switch(es) simply number all of the ports
and CPUs sequentially, just as if they were all attached to the same switch. So
the address of CPU 35 would be just "35".
• ServSwitch™ Multi, ServSelect, and compatible models: Addresses consist
of the switch's "chassis address" plus a port letter. So the address of the PC
CPU on port "J" of chassis "14", for example, would be "14J".
• ServSwitch™ Duo, ServSwitch™ Wizard, ServSwitch Wizard Pro, and
compatible models: If there's only one switch in your system, the addresses of
the attached PC CPUs are a simple two-digit port number, such as "05" or
"12" (leading zeros are required for CPUs 1 through 9). If there are several
cascaded switches in your system, the address consists of the complete "port
path": The address of the CPU on port 3 of a switch attached to port 2 of the
master switch would be "0203".
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