APC AP9268 manual Keyboard Switching, Key Sequence Action

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APC KVM Switch Installer/User Guide

3.3 Keyboard Switching

One of the ways to change the active channel in a non-secured APC KVM Switch system is by entering a short sequence of keystrokes on the keyboard. This is called keyboard, or hot-key, switching.

Note: Hot-key switching is only available in the default non-secure state. For more information on secure versus non-secure operation, see the ‘Administrator Functions’ section of Chapter 4.

The ﬁrst set of keystrokes places your system in Command Mode. A grey window with a line for commands will appear. As long as you are operating in Command Mode, whatever you type will be interpreted as channel switch commands until the Enter or the ESC key is pressed to terminate Command Mode. None of the keystrokes entered will be forwarded to the attached computer until you exit Command Mode.

Next, enter the address (Addr) for the channel you wish to select.

Press Enter to accept the new channel. The following command line shows the proper format used to switch your active channel via keyboard.

Key Sequence	Action

<CM>Addr<Enter>	Selects an active channel via keyboard.

Key Sequence

Action

1.<CM>4<Enter> Selects Channel 4 on the base unit as the active channel.

2.<CM>35<Enter> Selects the APC KVM Switch attached to channel 3 on the base unit, then selects channel 5 on the cascaded unit.

3.<CM>6<Enter> Selects Channel 6 on the base unit as the active channel.

4.<CM>21<ESC> Exit Command Mode. The instruction is not executed. Channel 6 is still the active channel.

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