Black Box KV1500A manual Refresh Configurations, Autoscanning and Autoskipping

SERVSWITCH™ SUMMIT

6.6 Refresh Configurations

If the system is slow to recognize new devices, administrators can select item 5, “Refresh Configurations,” from the Administration Menu in order to have the single or master Base Unit they’re attached to repoll its attached devices.

6.7 Autoscanning and Autoskipping

While they’re logged in to the Summit, administrators can press [F6] to turn autoscanning on and off. When autoscanning is turned on, the Summit switches sequentially and automatically from one channel port to the next, displaying each channel’s video for the duration of the user’s global scan rate or the channel’s individual scan rate (see Section 5.3), starting over at port 1 when it reaches the last channel port. (In a cascaded system, when the scan reaches a channel to which a subsidiary Base Unit is attached, it “drops down” to the subsidiary’s channels and scans them before resuming with the higher-level channels.) To take keyboard and mouse control of the CPU on a given channel port, autoscanning must be turned off. The word “Scan” at the bottom of the OSUI menus will appear in white when autoscan is off or yellow when autoscan is on.

In the Summit system’s default setting, autoscanning will display all of the Summit system’s channel ports (including vacant ones), except those occupied by CPUs that the user has not been granted the keyboard- and mouse-control rights for (that is, the CPUs that aren’t in one of the user’s permitted groups—see Appendix A). To allow a user to see CPUs that he or she can’t otherwise access, an administrator must set “Display All Computers” to “Yes” (see Section 6.2). To force the system to skip over vacant channel ports, an administrator must turn on autoskipping.

While they’re logged in to the Summit, administrators can press [F7] to turn autoskipping on and off. When autoskipping is turned on, the Summit will automatically skip vacant ports while autoscanning or when a user tries to switch to such a port manually. The word “Skip” at the bottom of the OSUI menus will appear in white when autoskip is off or yellow when autoskip is on.

6.8 Resetting a Base Unit to Its Factory Defaults

If you ever need to return a Base Unit’s user or channel configuration to its factory defaults, you can reset the Base Unit by pressing and holding the recessed reset button on its rear panel while the Base Unit is on. Wait until all of the LEDs on its front panel blink once, then release the reset button. The Base Unit will self-test, then resume operating normally in its factory-default configuration, except that any previously set password for the user name admin and any previously changed System Configuration settings will remain in effect. Proceed to reconfigure the Base Unit as necessary. If you lose the admin password, call Black Box Tech Support.

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