CHAPTER 3: Installation
3.2 Rackmounting the ServSwitch Duo (Optional)
The ServSwitch Duo has been designed to be used either on a desktop or mounted in a 19" rack. If the ServSwitch Duo is to be used on a desktop, you will need to stick the included self-adhesive rubber feet to the underside of the Switch. If the ServSwitch Duo is to be mounted in a 19" rack, you will need to fit the included rackmount brackets to the sides of the Switch using the included screws.
3.3 Connecting Your Devices
Make sure that your single or master ServSwitch Duo and (if possible) all the devices you want to attach to it are turned off and unplugged. (If you have to “hot- plug” any powered computers into the Switch, see Section 5.11.) Connect one or two sets of shared user equipment (keyboard, PS/2 mouse, and monitor) to the appropriate connectors on the Switch’s rear panel (either or both of control ports A and B; see Figure 2-2 or 2-5 in Section 2.3). If you are connecting two sets of keyboards, monitors, and mice, you don’t need to use the same brands or types of devices on each control port: For example, you can use a two-button PS/2 mouse on one port and a Microsoft IntelliMouse on the other. If you have had to place the Switch farther from the user equipment than the equipment’s native cables will reach, you can plug the native cables into ServSwitch Duo User- Extension Cable (our product code EHN409), which comes in 10-foot (3-m) and 30-foot (9.1-m) lengths. If you need to run even farther, you can use a ServSwitch Duo Extender (our product code KV6EXT) with 130-ft. (39.6-m) Premium Extender Cable (our product code KV6100) to connect the Switch to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor. (For more information about the Extender,
see its manual.)
Both the User-Extension Cable and Premium Extender Cable, as well as the CPU-Extension Cable discussed in the next paragraph, are built to the special three-in-one design shown in Figure 3-1 on the next page. The central coaxial video strand of each cable is molded to the keyboard and mouse strands on either side, and the ends of its video strand are one inch (2.5 cm) longer than the ends of the other strands, so that the weight of the composite cable can be borne by the video connector’s screwlocks. To help you tell the otherwise identical keyboard and mouse strands apart, the keyboard strand is labeled “K” and colored orange, while the mouse strand is labeled “M” and colored green.
