22
SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MP
Finally, connect each computer CPU to the Wizard MP system by running
cabling from one of the subsidiary Wizard MP’s CPU ports to the CPU’s keyboard,
mouse, video, and audio ports, as described in
Section 3.3.1
.
If you need to cross any particularly long distances in your cascade—user
equipment to switch, switch to switch, or switch to CPU— you might be able to use
one of our ServSwitch Brand KVM Extenders to make these connections. See
Section 3.3.3
.
Figure 3-2 features a basic but complete cascaded Wizard MP system.
Figure 3-2. A simple cascaded system with two ServSwitch Wizard MPs.
3.3.3 W
IZARD
MP C
ABLES
, S
ERV
S
WITCH
E
XTENDERS
,
AND
PC/AT A
DAPTERS
The Wizard MP Cables come in the three types shown in Figure 3-3 on the next
page, each designed to connect to CPUs with one of these three types of keyboard
and mouse connectors: PS/2 (EHN825 product codes), Sun (EHN826), or USB
(EHN827). Each type comes in either 6-foot (2-m) lengths (add “-0006” to the
product code) or 16-foot (5-m) lengths (add “-0016”).
All models of this cable have a single DB25 male connector at the Wizard MP
end. The CPU-end connectors are color-coded to conform (for the most part) to
the PC99 color specifications. All models of the cable have a blue HD15 male
connector to plug into the CPU’s video port, a light green 3.5-mm plug to plug
into the CPU’s speaker/headphone jack, and a maroon 3.5-mm plug to plug into
the CPU’s microphone jack. (The green and maroon audio colors are not PC99-
compliant, but are the colors used by many sound-card and sound-cable
manufacturers.)
The PS/2 models of this cable have two 6-pin mini-DIN male connectors: one
light purple to plug into the CPU’s keyboard jack, the other light green to plug
into the CPU’s mouse jack. The Sun models have a single beige 8-pin mini-DIN
CPU
CPU
Wizard MP cables
User-station equipment
Master
ServSwitch
Wizard MP
Subsidiary
ServSwitch
Wizard MP
