CHAPTER 4: BASIC OPERATIONS

4.4 Configuring OSD Interface Menus

You can configure your ServSelect III switch from the Setup menu within the OSD interface. Select the Names button when initially setting up your switch to identify servers by unique names. Select the other setup features to manage routine tasks for your servers from the OSD interface menu.

Setup Features to Manage Routine Tasks for Your Servers

Feature

Purpose

 

 

 

Change the server listing between numerically

 

by port or EID number and alphabetically by

Menu

name. Change the Screen Delay Time before the

 

OSD interface displays after pressing Print

 

Screen.

 

 

Flag

Change display, timing, color or location of the

status flag.

 

 

 

 

Set up to simultaneously control multiple servers

Broadcast

through keyboard and

 

mouse actions.

 

 

Scan

Set up a custom scan pattern for up to 16

servers.

 

 

 

Security

Set passwords to restrict server access. Enable

the screen saver.

 

 

 

Devices

Identify the appropriate number of ports on an

attached cascaded switch.

 

 

 

Names

Identify servers by unique names.

 

 

Switch

Choose the switch mode and the share mode

time-out.

 

 

 

Keyboard

Choose the keyboard country code that is sent

to the SAM or ServSelect III cables.

 

 

 

 

Allows the administrator to set up the Local User

User

Accounts (only visible when Enable Local User

 

Accounts is checked on the Security screen).

 

 

NOTE:

Only the Menu, Flag and Security screens are available to the users without administrator privileges. All other screens, except the User screen, are available to the administrator when Enable Local User Accounts is disabled in the Security screen.

To access the Setup menu:

1.Press Print Screen to launch the OSD interface. The Main dialog box displays.

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