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In Affinity systems that include 8- or 16-User units, a station’s bus will also
depend on the settings of the port-numbering jumpers JP1 and JP2 on the 8-Port
Expansion Card(s) installed in the station’s chassis (see
Section 3.4.2
). The buses
in a chassis will be numbered either KVM “1” through “4,” “5” through “8,” “9”
through “12,” or “13” through “16.” The system automatically updates the bus
numbers when the settings of JP1 and JP2 are changed.
KVM Name
Use this field to assign a name up to 16 characters long to any user (KVM) station
on the ServSwitch Affinity. Factory defaults are “KVM Station 1” through “KVM
Station 16” (sometimes with spaces embedded between the word “Station” and the
number).
Resolution
Use this field to select the resolution and refresh rate of the on-screen menu when
no computer video is shown. Factory default is 640 x 480 pixels at 60 Hz. Other
available options are 640 x 480 at 67, 72, or 75 Hz; 832 x 634 at 75 Hz; and 1152 x
900 at 66 or 76 Hz.
Start
Use this field to assign a default computer that will be selected by the station at
startup or login. If you set this field to zero (which is the factory default for all
stations), no default connection will be made; the display will be blank until the
user manually selects a computer. Do
not
assign the same computer, or more than
one computer attached to the same Port Card, to be the startup computer for
different stations; doing so might cause contention-related errors at startup.
Profile
When you place the cursor on this field, a separate menu appears that displays a
list of usernames (like those in Figure 4-7 on the next page) with the word “Login”
at the bottom.
If you select “Login,” users at this station will have to log in in order to access
attached computers.
If you select one of the usernames, logins will be disabled and anyone will be able
to access the system from this station; the username’s user profile (see
Section 4.6
)
will determine the type of computer access that users at this station will have. The
default username for each station is the name appearing in the same-numbered
row in the “Configure User” page (see
Section 4.5
); that is, station 1 is assigned the
username in the first row in the “Configure User” page (“User 1” initially), station 2
is assigned the username in the second row in the “Configure User” page (“User 2”
initially), and so on. If you go into the “Configure User” page and change any
username assigned to a station—whether it’s one of the defaults that’s still in
effect, or a different name you’ve manually assigned that’s listed in some other
row—the username appearing in this User field will be automatically updated, but
only after
you save the configuration and exit and re-enter the configuration menu.