Blade Configuration - Tripp Lite B64-032-04-IPG Owner's Manual

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Blade Configuration

Blade Servers that are connected to the switches display below the
KVM switches in the Sidebar. This section describes accessing and
configuring the blade servers, and associating the blades with KVM
switch ports. By associating a blade server or blade with a port,
the servers and blades are integrated into the Sidebar tree view and
appear as devices connected to the port.
The Blade Configuration page is where the associations between blade
servers and ports on the KVM switch get created. To access this page,
select the blade server or blade, then click the Blade Configuration
sub-section tab.
For IBM and Dell blade servers, the entire chassis gets associated
with a port, and each blade in the chassis will appear in the tree as a
child port of the associated port—as shown by the screenshot of port
08 below.
For HP blade servers, associations are made on a blade by blade basis.
Each blade is associated with a single port. To access a blade, click on
its port entry in the tree.
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Associating Ports
Device View
Port association begins by clicking the Blade Configuration sub-
section tab in the menu bar. The page comes up in Device View,
listing all of the KVM switch's ports, and the blade servers (IBM
and Dell servers), or individual blades (HP servers) that have been
associated with them.
To associate a blade server or blade with a port, follow the steps
below.
1. Select the port in the main panel.
2. Click Associate.
3. In the screen that comes up, select the blade server or individual
blade that you want to associate with the selected port.
4. Click Save.
After the association completes successfully, the blade icon appears
next to the associated port in the Sidebar tree. To access the device
running on the blade, click on its entry in the Sidebar tree.
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