Chapter 6. Port Access
Blade Servers – Connections Page
Blade Servers that are connected to the switches display below the KVM switches and PON devices in the Sidebar.
This section describes accessing and configuring the blade servers, and associating the blades with KVM switch ports. By associating a blade server or blade with a port the servers and blades are integrated into the Sidebar tree view, and appear as devices connected to the port.
The Blade Configuration Page
The Blade Configuration page is where the associations between the blade servers and the KVM switch ports get made. To access this page, select the blade server or blade, then click Blade Configuration (the menu item at the far right of the menu bar).
For IBM and Dell blade servers, the entire chassis gets associated with a port, and each blade in the chassis will appear in the tree as a child port of the associated port – as in port 08 in the screenshot at the right.
For HP blade servers, associations are made on a blade by blade basis. Each blade is associated with a single port.
To access a blade, click on its port entry in the tree.
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