Chapter 3.

Hotkey Operation

This chapter details the concepts and procedures involved in the Hotkey operation of your ACS-1208AL / ACS-1216AL installation; OSD Operation is discussed in

detail in Chapter 4.

Hotkey Port Access

Invoking Hotkey Mode

Hotkey Port Access allows you to provide KVM focus to a particular computer directly from the keyboard. The ACS-1208AL / ACS-1216AL provides the following Hotkey Port Control features:

MSelecting the Active Port

MAuto Scanning

MSkip Mode Switching

All Hotkey operations begin by invoking Hotkey Mode. Invoking Hot- key Mode takes three steps:

1.Hold down the Num Lock key;

2.Press and release the minus key;

3.Release the Num Lock key:

[Num Lock] + [-];

Note: The minus key must be released within one half second, otherwise Hotkey invocation is cancelled and it has no effect.

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