CHAPTER 6: Keyboard Commands

Table 6-1 (continued). The Matrix ServSwitch’s keyboard commands.

Command

Keystroke Sequence

Description

 

 

 

Switch to the

[Ctrl] [] or

Switches back to the CPU port you were

Prior Port

[Ctrl] [Backspace]

connected to before you selected the current one.

 

 

 

Toggle Station-

[Ctrl] D

Causes the most recent status message about

Status Display

 

your user station to be redisplayed, or removes

 

 

the message if it’s currently on screen.

 

 

 

Log Out

[Ctrl] L

Logs user out if their user station has logins enabled.

 

 

 

Disconnect

[Ctrl] Q

Disconnects user from (that is, deselects)

 

 

currently selected computer.

 

 

 

Reset

[Ctrl] R

Resets and enables the keyboard and mouse;

Keyboard and

 

also enables the PS/2 mouse port of the currently

Mouse

 

selected computer, if it has one. Issue this

 

 

command to correct your keyboard or mouse if

 

 

one of them malfunctions or gets stuck.

 

 

 

Reset Mouse

[Ctrl] O

Resets the PS/2 mouse port of the currently

(Windows NT

 

selected computer running Windows NT or UNIX.

and UNIX)

 

Also switches the NT mouse driver from “non-

 

 

wheel” mode to “wheel” mode.

 

 

 

Send Null Byte

[Ctrl] N

Causes the Switch to send a null byte to the

 

 

CPU’s PS/2 mouse port. Issue this command to

 

 

correct the current CPU if it gets “out of sync” with

 

 

the PS/2 mouse.

 

 

 

Identify

[Ctrl] I

Causes the Switch to report the version of ROM it

Firmware

 

is using. Issue this command if you are asked to

Revision

 

do so by a technical-support person.

 

 

 

Start Scan

[Ctrl] S

Turns Scan mode ON, causing the Switch to start

 

 

scanning sequentially from the current CPU port

 

 

through the remaining ports in your group and

 

 

then begin again at the lowest-numbered port.

 

 

 

End Scan

[Ctrl] X

Turns Scan mode OFF; the user station is given

 

 

access—as much as the user’s profile allows—to

 

 

the CPU port being scanned at the time the

 

 

command is entered.

 

 

Note: Scan can also be stopped by entering a

 

 

Select Computer command.

 

 

 

Pass Through

[Ctrl] X or

Bypasses the Matrix ServSwitch, passing the

Command

[Ctrl] [Tab]

command through to an attached KVM switch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Black Box ServSwitch manual Keyboard Commands

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