CHAPTER 5: Operation: On-Screen Display

5.2.3CONFIGURE SYSTEM: MAXIMUM COMPUTERS

This setting corresponds to the number of computers (CPUs) connected to the ServSwitch system. It comes in handy when you are cascading, or are only using some of the CPU ports on a single Switch: When the Switch knows how many CPUs there are, it can handle switching and scanning more intelligently.

Actually, the Switch will usually autodetect this value, but if for whatever reason you have no CPUs attached the first time you boot the Switch, it will use its factory- default values instead (“4” for 2-port units, the number of CPU ports on the box for other units).

To change this setting, press [Enter] while “Maximum computers” is highlighted. An “Input new value” box appears, as shown in Figure 5-4 below.

Configure system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard and mouse type

 

 

Keyboard

PC

 

 

Mouse

PS/2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expansion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input new value

Maximum computers

8

 

 

Expansion units

0

 

 

 

Expansion width

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scan settings

 

 

 

 

Scan time (seconds)

5

 

 

 

Scan mode

Off

 

 

Power on scan

Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard typematic

 

 

 

 

Rate (keys/sec)

20

 

 

 

Delay

Fast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total number of computers connected to switch (2-256)

Figure 5-4. Changing the maximum number of computers.

Use the shared keyboard’s number keys to input a new value from 2 to 256 and hit [Enter]. The input box disappears and the new setting appears in the “Maximum computers” field.

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