The Quick Installation Guide - Avocent KVM over IP switch User Manual

1. The Quick Installation Guide

Installation
PS/2 IP-KVM switch redirects local keyboard, mouse and video data to a remote administration
console. All data is transmitted via IP. PS/2 IP-KVM switch can be used in a multi administrator and
multi server environment as well. Besides, PS/2 IP-KVM switch is a KVM switch, which can also be
used with a local console. Connecting PS/2 IP-KVM switch to the host system
In order to connect the PS/2 IP-KVM switch perform the following steps:
1. Connect the power supply to PS/2 IP-KVM switch.
2. Connect the monitor to the PS/2 IP-KVM switch.
3. Connect the keyboard to the PS/2 IP-KVM switch.
4. Connect the mouse to the PS/2 IP-KVM switch.
5. Plug the HDDB15 pin connector of a 3-in-one cable into any label computer port on the rear of
PS/2 IP-KVM switch unit. Then connect the HDDB-15 pin male type for PC video, the purple Mini
Din 6 pin female type for keyboard and the green Mini Din 6 pin female type for mouse. To plug
these three connectors into the respective ports of computer.
6. Repeat item 5 procedure to all of PC ports of PS/2 IP-KVM switch
Connect Ethernet and/or modem, depending how you want to access PS/2 IP-KVM switch.
7.
Video modes
PS/2 IP-KVM switch recognizes a limited number of common video modes. When running X-Window
on the host system, please don't use any custom mode lines with special video modes. If done so,
PS/2 IP-KVM SWITCH may not be able to detect these. You are on the safe side with all standard
VESA video modes. Please refer to Appendix C for a list of all known modes.
Initial IP configuration
Initially the PS/2 IP-KVM switch network interface is configured with the parameters shown in Table
1.1.
If this initial configuration doesn't meet your local requirements, you need to do the initial IP
configuration. Use one of the following ways:
1.Connect the enclosed NULL modem cable to the serial interface on the rear side. The serial
interface needs to be adjusted with the parameters shown in table 1.2:
Parameter
IP auto configuration
IP-Address
Net-mask
Default-Gateway
Table 1.1: Initial configuration
Parameter
Bits/second
Data bits
Parity
Stop bits
Flow Control
Table 1.2: Serial parameters
Value
DHCP
192.168.1.22
255.255.255.0
none
Value
115200
8
No
1
None
1
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