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RACKMOUNT SERVSWITCH™ BRAND CAT5 KVM EXTENDER LOCAL HUBS
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Position 4:
When position 4 (the bottom one, or the rightmost one if you hold
the Remote Unit by its left end) is in its factory-default ON setting, the
Extender resets the keyboard and mouse at your station (and at your station
only
) when you press [Scroll Lock] (see
Section 7.3.1
). But if you need the
[Scroll Lock] key for some other function, you can force the Extender to pass
[Scroll Lock] through to the corresponding PC—disabling the reset function
for that PC—by setting position 4 to OFF.
Be aware that in a Dual-Access Extender system, disabling Scroll-Lock reset
also
affects the
local station’s
keyboard and mouse, and disables Private Mode
for that CPU (see
Section 7.3.4
) as well.
5.3.2 ACUREMSW
AND
ACUVREM
For ACUREMSW and ACUVREM, only position 2 of this DIP switch is meaningful;
don’t change the settings of any of the other switch positions. (Position 2 is the
second one from the top, or second from the left if you hold the Remote Unit by
its left end.) This setting applies to the the Remote Unit’s attached remote user
station and (in Dual-Access systems) any corresponding local user station. It
controls the Extender’s keyboard-command hotkey (see
Section 7.3
), the character
that you can send from an attached keyboard to cue the Extender to expect to
receive a command. Each time you press the hotkey, it will be absorbed by the
Extender if it’s followed by a valid command character.
The hotkey can be either left-[Ctrl] or right-[Ctrl]. In position 2’s factory-default
OFF setting, right-[Ctrl] is the hotkey. But you might want to use left-[Ctrl] instead,
particularly if (a) a KVM switch you’ll be attaching to this Extender link’s CPU port
uses right-[Ctrl] as
its
command hotkey, or (b) a computer you’ll be attaching to
this Extender link’s CPU port is a workstation such as a Compaq Alpha, HP, etc.
(Instead of a standard right-[Ctrl] key, these workstations’ keyboards have a
[Compose] key, which shouldn’t be absorbed by the Extender because it’s
required for use with some of the software written for these workstations.) To have
the Extender use left-[Ctrl] for its hotkey, move position 2 to ON. (If neither right-
nor left-[Ctrl] are suitable for this purpose in your application, please call Black
Box Technical Support.)
