SERVSWITCH™ SUMMIT

5. User Functions

This chapter discusses how to use the On-Screen User Interface (OSUI) to configure and operate your ServSwitch™ Summit system. (See Appendixes G and C for information about using the KV1518A CIM or using the KV1519A with a local PC.)

5.1 Login

You need to login in order to access computers and other devices connected to the Summit system. The Login Menu (shown in Figure 5-1) is automatically displayed on every user station monitor after the single or master Summit Base Unit is powered on after being powered off; to bring up the Login Menu on a user-station monitor at any other time, press the system’s hotkey (the factory default is [Scroll Lock]) twice in quick succession to bring up the OSUI, then press function key [F9].

NOTE

If a user-station monitor displays the message “…No Connection to Summit…” instead of the Login Menu, either the USM isn’t connected properly to the Base Unit, the Base Unit is powered off, or the Base Unit is malfunctioning. Make sure that the cabling between the USM and the Base Unit is intact and is securely connected at both ends. Also make sure that when you turn the Base Unit off and back on, the LEDs run through the sequence described in step 1b of Section 4.2.

The Device ID field in the login menu will initially contain the single or master Base Unit’s default device name: “Summit” followed by “2x42” for a KV1500A, “4x42” for a KV1501A, “8x32” for a KV1502A, or “16x64” for a KV1503A. (The administrator can assign it a different name.) The User Port is the number of the user port on the Base Unit—from 1 to 16 depending on the model—that this USM and user station are attached to.

Please Login ServSwitch Summit

Device ID: Summit 8x32

User Port: 1

User Name:

Password:

Enter Name and Password

Figure 5-1. The Login Menu for a KV1502A.

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Black Box KV1500A manual User Functions, Login

KV1500A specifications

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