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only those server ports available on the master unit are shown on the first screen (other
ports are shown by selecting
Next unit
Next unit
at the bottom of the menu).
Pressing
J
J
or selecting
Jump to port…
Jump to port…
from the menu allows a user to directly select
a server port. The ServerSwitch will prompt the user for a server port by changing
Jump
Jump
to port…
to port…
to
Enter port:
Enter port:
on the on-screen menu. At this prompt, the user should
enter either the port name (which may or may not be case-sensitive according to other
system settings) or the port number and press
<ENTER>
<ENTER>
. If a device is selected that is
currently in use by the other user, the message
Port In Use by Other User
Port In Use by Other User
will
appear at the bottom of the screen and the port will not be selected; however, the on-
screen menu will remain. The user should try to select another port or exit from the
menu by pressing the
<ESC>
<ESC>
key.
Alternately, the user may select a server port by moving the highlight bar over a server
port name with the up and down arrow keys and pressing
<ENTER>
<ENTER>
to select that port.
If a device is selected that is currently in use by the other user, the message
Port In
Port In
Use by Other User
Use by Other User
will appear at the bottom of the screen, and the port will not be
selected. For a group of cascaded ServerSwitches, the first on-screen menu will only
show those server ports available on the master unit; the server ports for the auxiliary
units are accessed by selecting
Next unit
Next unit
from the bottom of the on-screen menu, or
by pressing the highlighted character (
N
N
). Each menu that follows shows the server
ports for one auxiliary unit. The menu item
Next unit
Next unit
will bring the user to the next
unit in the cascade, while the menu item
Prev unit
Prev unit
(or pressing the highlighted
character,
P
P
) shows the ports for the previous unit in the cascade. The current
ServerSwitch selected in the cascade is indicated at the top of the menu as
Curr: X
Curr: X
,
where
X
X
is the number of the unit in the cascade. The master unit is unit
1
1
; the next
auxiliary unit is
2
2
, and so on. The user may exit from the port selection menus and back
to the main menu by pressing the
<ESC>
<ESC>
key.
Once a server port is selected, the on-screen menu will disappear. With the default
settings, a small box with the port name will appear at the top of the screen when the
on-screen menu disappears, and then disappear a few seconds later. This box with the
server port name may be configured to never appear, to appear for a few seconds, or to
always remain on the screen; its position and colors may also be configured. See
section 3.7 for more information.
3.3.1 Disabling One User
At start-up, server port 1 is selected by user A, and user B is disabled. User B actually
has a special port selected: the "parking" port. The parking port allows two users to
exist on the system without requiring that a server port always be selected, freeing all
server ports for possible selection when a user is not active.
The parking port may be selected by choosing the Disabled item just above the first port
in the port selection list on the main menu. Both users may select this item
simultaneously. It is recommended that a user select this item when not active to
prevent a server port from being blocked from the other user.
