APC AP5610, AP5616, AP5615 Controlling The Switching System From The Analog Port, Starting The OSD

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Basic Operations

Controlling The Switching System From The Analog Port

The APC KVM switch includes ports on the rear panel to connect a keyboard, monitor and mouse for direct analog access. The KVM switch uses the On-Screen Display (OSD), which has menus to configure the switching system and select target devices. Devices can be identified by customizable names.

Starting The OSD

You can view, configure and control target devices in the switching system from the OSD interface from a KVM connection to the analog port.

To start the OSD interface, press Print Screen. Alternatively, you can press the Control, Alt or Shift key twice within one second to start the OSD interface. You can use any of these key sequences instead of pressing Print Screen in any procedure in this document. To specify which key sequences can be used to start the OSD interface, click Setup - Menu.

The Main window lists the target devices in the switching system. You can sort the list by clicking the Name, eID or Port button.

The Port column indicates the target device interface port to which each target device is connected.

The status of each target device in the switching system is indicated by one or more status symbols in the right column. The following table describes the status symbols.