Broadcasting To Servers; Accessing The Broadcast Dialog Box; Activating The Broadcast Dialog Box; Broadcasting Keystrokes - HP AF600A - Server Console Switch User Manual

Broadcasting to servers

Analog users can simultaneously control more than one server in a system to be sure that all selected
servers receive identical input. For each server receiving the broadcast, you can choose to broadcast
keystrokes and mouse movements independently.
NOTE:
unable to access any servers.
NOTE:

Accessing the Broadcast dialog box

From the Main dialog box
Broadcast dialog box appears.

Activating the Broadcast dialog box

To activate broadcasting, from the Commands dialog box
page 38), select Broadcast Enable.
To deactivate broadcasting, from the Commands dialog box
page 38), clear Broadcast Enable.

Broadcasting keystrokes

The keyboard statistics must be identical for all servers receiving a broadcast to interpret keystrokes
identically. Specifically, the Caps Lock and Num Lock modes must be the same on all keyboards. While
the HP KVM Server Console Switch G2 attempts to send keystrokes to the selected servers simultaneously,
some servers can inhibit and thereby delay the transmission.

Broadcasting selected servers

Select the keyboard and mouse using one of the following options:
1.
During broadcast, any users connected to a broadcast server will be disconnected and
You can broadcast to only one server per Expansion Module connection.
("Accessing the Main dialog box" on page 17), click Setup>Broadcast. The
("Accessing the Commands dialog
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