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SERIAL CIM FOR SERVSWITCH™ SUMMIT
2. Installation
Take these steps to attach a KV1518A CIM to the serial port of a computer CPU or
other device and to your Summit system:
1. Run an appropriate cable from the KV1518A's DB25 female DTE connector
to the device's serial port. The type of cable will depend on what type of
connector the port is and whether it's pinned as DTE (for a data source/
destination such as a CPU) or DCE (for a data-communicating device such as
a modem). Here are the product codes of some cables we recommend if the
port is:
• DB9 male DTE (most PCs, some routers, etc.): EVMBMC-0006 for a 6-ft.
(1.8-m) cable;
• DB25 male DTE (some older PCs, routers, etc.): EYN250-0005-MF for a 5-ft.
(1.5-m) cable;
• DB25 female DCE (many external modems, muxes): BC00703 for a 6-ft.
(1.8-m) cable.
If the device has some other type of serial port, call Black Box Technical
Support.
2. If you need temporary "crash cart" access or permanent local control, you can
attach a local user station (consisting of a keyboard and VGA monitor only) to
the KV1518A. The user station's keyboard can be either be PS/2 or Sun type;
a Sun keyboard will require a special setting in the Setup Screen—see
Section 4).
To install a local user station, plug a PS/2 keyboard into the KV1518A's
6-pin mini-DIN connector, or a Sun keyboard into its 8-pin mini-DIN
connector. Plug a VGA monitor into the KV1518A's HD15 connector.
This local station will contend for keyboard control with the remote user
stations attached to Summit USMs based on a fixed one-second activity
timeout. As soon as there has been no keyboard activity from the local
station for one second, a remote station can take keyboard control, and
vice versa.
3. Plug in and turn on the device. If possible, set it to communicate at 9600 bps,
8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit. (These don't have to be the permanent
serial settings, but the device must be set this way to establish initial
communication with the KV1518A; later you can configure both the device
and the KV1518A to better settings—see Section 4. If the device can't be
configured for these settings, you'll need to temporarily attach a CPU or
other device that can be.)
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