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If you connect a USB keyboard that has a mouse port, the keyboard emulates a
mouse, and you cannot disable the mouse settings in the blade server
Configuration/Setup Utility program.
Switch-module Ethernet connector
Each Ethernet switch module contains four Ethernet connectors.
Connect a Category 3, 4, or 5 unshielded twisted-pair cable to this connector. The
100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T Fast Ethernet standards require Category 5 or
higher.
The following illustration shows an Ethernet connector that is on an Ethernet switch
module.
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Remote management and console Ethernet connector
Your BladeCenter management module contains one 10/100 Mb Ethernet port that
provides the remote connection to the network management station on the network.
Use this port for remote management and remote console.
The network management station, through this port, can access control functions
running in the service processor on each blade server or within each switch
module. However, it cannot use this port to communicate with application programs
running in the blade servers. The network management station must direct those
communications through a network connected to the external ports in the switch
modules.
The following illustration shows the Ethernet connector that is on the management
module.
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