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3.2 Placement
The ServSwitch Wizard Pro can be placed on a desktop or mounted in a 19" rack.
If you want to use the ServSwitch Wizard Pro on a desktop, you will need to stick
the included self-adhesive rubber feet to the underside of the Switch. If you want
to mount the ServSwitch Wizard Pro, see
Appendix B
for instructions.
3.3 Connecting Your Devices
Make sure that your single or master ServSwitch Wizard Pro and (if possible) all
the devices you want to attach to it are turned off and unplugged. (If you have to
“hot-plug” any powered computers into the Switch, see
Section 5.9
.) Connect your
shared user equipment (keyboard, PS/2 mouse, and monitor) to the appropriate
connectors on the Switch’s rear panel (the “control port”; see Figure 2-2 or 2-5 in
Section 2.3
). If you have had to place the Switch farther from the user equipment
than the equipment’s native cables will reach, you can plug the native cables into
ServSwitch Duo User-Extension Cable (our product code EHN409), which comes
in 10-foot (3-m) and 30-foot (9.1-m) lengths. If you need to run even farther, you
can use a ServSwitch Duo Extender (our product code KV6EXT) with 130-ft.
(39.6-m) Premium Extender Cable (our product code KV6100) to connect the
Switch to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor. (For more information about the
Extender, see its manual.)
Both the User-Extension Cable and Premium Extender Cable, as well as the
CPU-Extension Cable discussed in the next paragraph, are built to the special
three-in-one design shown in Figure 3-1 on the next page. The central coaxial
video strand of each cable is molded to the keyboard and mouse strands on either
side, and the ends of its video strand are one inch (2.5 cm) longer than the ends
of the other strands, so that the weight of the composite cable can be borne by the
video connector’s screwlocks. To help you tell the otherwise identical keyboard
and mouse strands apart, the keyboard strand is labeled “K” and colored orange,
while the mouse strand is labeled “M” and colored green.
