Chapter 3

Hotkey Operation

This chapter details the concepts and procedures involved in the Hotkey operation of your ACS1208 / ACS1216 installation; OSD Operation is discussed in detail in Chapter 4.

Hotkey Port Control

Hotkey Port Control allows you to provide KVM focus to a particular computer directly from the keyboard. The Master View ACS1208 / ACS1216 provides the following Hotkey Port Control features:

ŠSelecting the Active Port

ŠAuto Scanning

ŠSkip Mode Switching

Invoking Hotkey Mode

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

1.Hold down the Num Lock key;

2.Press and release the asterisk or the minus key;

3.Release the Num Lock key:

[Num Lock] + [*];

or:

[Num Lock] + [-];

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

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