Accessing Your Matrox Supersight - Matrox Supersight Installation And Hardware Reference

20 Chapter 1: Before you begin

Accessing your Matrox Supersight

The following is a list of ways to access your Matrox Supersight SHB:
• Use a keyboard, mouse, and display device. To interact with one SHB, connect
your keyboard to one of its USB connectors, and your mouse to the other. Then,
connect your display device to its video output connector. Repeat this process for
each SHB in your Matrox Supersight unit.
• Use a KVM switch. To interact with more than one SHB, you can use a KVM
switch. A KVM switch allows you to switch control between more than one SHB
with only a single keyboard, display device, and mouse. Connect one of the USB
connectors and the video output connector from each of your unit's SHB boards
to your KVM switch.
• Use a remote connection from your development computer to one (or more)
SHB. To remotely connect to an SHB, first use a keyboard, mouse, and display
device to interact with the required SHB. Configure your SHB to be on the same
IP subnet as your development computer. Connect the Ethernet connector of your
SHB to your network. Follow the guidelines in Microsoft help to enable remote
connections. Then, attach the mouse, keyboard, and display device to your next
SHB and repeat the process. Once each SHB is configured and connected, you
can use the remote connection utility to remotely control the required SHB from
your development computer.
❖ Note that you can use an SHB as your development computer and use it to
remotely connect to the other SHBs. In this case, using the first SHB
recommended if you want to be able to power down the SHBs remotely. To
remotely connect to the SHBs, you must still externally connect the SHBs onto
the same network (using the Ethernet connector).
1. The first SHB is the SHB that is in the left-most SHB slot on the backplane, as seen
from the front panel (see the illustration in the Establishing which boards can be
installed section, in Chapter 3: Connecting devices to the backplane and to the
Matrox Supersight SHB board).
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