Apex Digital model 140DX manual Alternative Configurations, Primary Secondary

C A B L I N G Apex OutLook 140DX/180DX Switch User Guide 24

ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS

ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS

Primary

Secondary

There are other ways to configure your system, such as the tiered switch configuration.

Tiered Switch Configuration

In tiered systems, you can connect additional switches to ports on a primary unit. That is, switches can be tiered in primary/ secondary configurations to allow one primary switch to switch between computers or other switch units.

Tiering involves linking the secondary units’ physical keyboard, mouse, and monitor connections to one of the computer ports on the primary unit. For example, one eight-port primary unit can accommodate eight secondary switch units. A system with eight servers connected to each of the eight secondary switches would provide a 1x64 configuration.

An example of a tiered switch configuration is shown above.

When connecting a secondary unit to one of the ports of the master unit, you need to indicate this connection to the primary unit by performing the Assigning Specific Device Types procedure described in Chapter 5, Using OSCAR, entering the secondary unit designation for the associated port number instead of a monitor type. OSCAR allows secondary ports to be treated much like ports on the primary switch. It may be helpful to name each secondary unit as described in Assigning Unique Names to Computers in Chapter 5.