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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MULTIMEDIA KVM EXTENDER
3.3 Connecting Your Devices
First make sure the power supply is unplugged and disconnected from Unit B of
the ServSwitch Wizard Multimedia KVM Extender. If you are powering the
Extender’s Unit A with an optional power supply, make sure that Unit A is
unplugged and disconnected as well.
Also make sure that (if possible) all of the devices you want to attach to your
Extender system are turned off and unplugged. (If you have to “hot-plug” any
powered computers into the Extender, see
Section 5.9
.) You don’t have to connect
anything to ports on the Extender that you’re not using.
3.3.1 C
ONNECTING
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QUIPMENT
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QUIPMENT
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Plug a set of shared user equipment (keyboard, PS/2 mouse, monitor,
microphone, and/or speakers) into the connectors on the Extender marked with
the corresponding icons in the “CONTROL STATION” connector groups. (On
Unit A, attach the optional local control-station equipment to the “LOCAL
CONTROL STATION” connectors on the Unit’s front panel. On Unit B, attach
the necessary primary control-station equipment to the “PRIMARY CONTROL
STATION” connectors on the Unit’s front panel. Refer to Figure 3-1.)
3.3.2 C
ONNECTING
CPU/KVM-S
WITCH
P
ORTS
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)
Run cable from your computer CPU’s keyboard, monitor, mouse, audio-in, and/or
audio-out ports—or from one of your KVM switch’s user ports—to the connectors
on the Extender marked with the corresponding icons in the “COMPUTER”
group. (On Unit A, attach the necessary primary CPU or ServSwitch family KVM
switch to the “PRIMARY COMPUTER OR KVM SWITCH” connectors on the
Unit’s rear panel. On Unit B, attach the optional local CPU to the “LOCAL
COMPUTER” connectors on the Unit’s front panel. Refer to Figure 3-1.)
The Extender comes with a pair of specially bonded three-to-three CPU-
Extension Cables that you can use to make the keyboard-, video-, and mouse-port
attachments. One is 5 ft. (1.5 m) long, the other is 10 ft. (3 m) long; we
recommend that you use the shorter one with the local CPU or switch, so that Unit
A can get as much of the device’s keyboard-port power as possible. These cables
are designed as shown in Figure 3-2. The central coaxial video strand of each cable
is molded to the keyboard and mouse strands on either side, and the ends of its
video strand are one inch (2.5 cm) longer than the ends of the other strands, so
that the weight of the composite cable can be borne by the video connector’s
screwlocks. To help you tell the otherwise identical keyboard and mouse strands
apart, the keyboard strand is labeled “K” and colored orange, while the mouse
