2. Installation
Daisy Chaining
To control even more computers, up to 31 Master View ACS-1208A / ACS- 1216A units can be daisy chained down from the CL-1208 / CL-1216.
Note: It would be unnecessarily wasteful and expensive to use CL-1208 / CL- 1216 switches for daisy chaining since there is no point in having consoles on the chained switches. Therefore, ACS-1208A and ACS- 1216A switches are used instead.
The ACS-1208A and ACS-1216A are similar to the CL-1208 and CL- 1216, except that they come in standard housings without the built in Slideaway™ console.
As many as 256 (CL-1208) or 512 (CL-1216) computers can be controlled from the unit's integrated Slideaway™ console in a complete installation. Tables showing the relation between the number of computers and the number of Master View units needed to control them are provided on p. 57 in the Appendix.
To set up a daisy chained installation, refer to the daisy chain installation diagram on p. 15, and do the following:
1.Make sure that power to all the devices you will be connecting up has been turned off.
2.Use a daisy chain cable set (described in the Cables section, p. 4), to connect the Chain Out port of the parent unit to the Chain In port of the child unit (First Station Out to Second Station In, Second Station Out to Third Station In, etc.).
3.Use KVM cable sets (described in the Cables section of the ACS-1208A / ACS-1216A User Manual), to connect any available KVM Port on the daisy chained switch to the keyboard, video and mouse ports of the computers you are installing.
4.Repeat the above steps for any additional Master View units you wish to add to the chain.