Apex OutLook 140DX/180DX Switch User Guide 24
CABLING
ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS
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.
Primary
Secondary
ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS