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3.3.2 S
ETTING AND
I
NSTALLING
C
ARDS
You can install Port Cards in any vacant Port-Card slot in the ServSwitch Affinity at
any time. You can also install an Expansion Card (or, on 4-User models, swap in an
Expansion Card for a Terminator Card)in order to prepare the Affinity to be
daisychained. (You
must
install Expansion Cards in 8- and 16-User models—they won’t
work otherwise.) Depending on the topology of your daisychained system—and, in
8- and 16-User systems, on the numbering of your user ports—you might need to
set the Expansion Card’s jumpers before you do this. For directions, see
Appendix E
.
3.3.3 R
ACKMOUNTING
(O
PTIONAL
)
If you want to mount the Affinity in a rack, you will need a ServSwitch Affinity
Rackmounting Kit. The product code for a 19", 23", or 24" kit is RMK19A139,
RMK23A139, or RMK24A139 respectively if your Affinity is a KV139 model, or
RMK19A, RMK23A, or RMK24A respectively if your Affinity is any other model. See
Appendix G
for more information.
3.3.4 C
ONNECTING THE
M
ONITORS
, K
EYBOARDS
,
AND
M
ICE
User Cables (also called Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse [“MKM”] Adapter Cables) run
from each user’s monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the ServSwitch Affinity. Because
various styles of electrical connectors are used by different classes of equipment, we
supply this cable in various styles to match (see
Appendix B
). This cable also comes
in the different lengths supported by different applications (see
Section 3.2.3
,
Appendix B
, and the Caution notice in
Section 3.3.1
.).
CAUTION!
Make
very
sure that the monitor, keyboard, and mouse you plan to use
can meet the demands of your application—see
Section 3.2
. Also, note
that the ServSwitch Affinity doesn’t support most keyboard-line dongles.
1. After you verify that the Affinity is turned OFF, plug the DB25 male connector
of the first User Cable into the one of the KVM ports on the Affinity’s rear
panel (preferably the lowest-numbered one—refer to Figures 2-2 and 2-3 in
Section 2.3
). Use the other (consecutively higher-numbered) KVM ports for
the rest of the User Cables.
2. If your common equipment is IBM compatible, plug the cables from your
shared monitor, keyboard, and mouse into the corresponding connectors on
the other ends of the User Cable. If your common equipment is Sun compatible,
plug the mouse cable into the keyboard, and plug the monitor and keyboard
cables into the corresponding connectors on the other ends of the User Cable.
