Owners manual

24.....Avocent® Matrix High Performance KVM Switching System
Therecanbeonlyonemasterinacascadedsystem.Theswitchthatissettomastermodeisused
toadministertheotherswitches,transmittersandreceiversinthesystemthroughtheOBWI.Ina
systemwithonlyoneswitch,thatswitchshouldalwaysbesettomastermode.
WhenaswitchissettoSlaveMode,theOBWIontheswitchwillbecomeverylimited.Aslave
cannotadministerotherdevices.
To change the mode:
1. Selectaswitchfromthelistofdevices.
NOTE: Youcanonlychangethemodeoftheswitchyouareloggedinto.
2. OntheModetab,selectthedesiredcascadeparticipationfromthedrop-downlist.
3. ClickSave.
Switch – Attributes tab
TheAttributestaballowsyoutochangethename,locationanddescriptionoftheswitch.Thename
ofeachswitchmustbeuniquewithinacascadedsystem.
Switch – IPv4 and IPv6 tab
TheIPv4andIPv6tabsallowyoutochoosetheconfigurationmethodusedfortheswitch,theIP
address,thesubnetmask,thegatewayaddressandDNS.
Switch – NTP tab
OntheNTPtabyoucanconfigureaprimaryandsecondarytimeserverthatwillbeusedto
synchronizethetimeofdayclockontheswitch.Thetimeofdayisusedwheneventsarelogged.
Switch – Status tab
TheStatustabfortheswitchshowsbasic,read-onlyinformationabouttheselectedswitch.
Switch – Ports tab
ThePortstabfortheswitchlistsallofthedevicesconnectedtotheswitchports.Itliststheport
number,thedevicetype,thedeviceEIDandthestatusforeachofthedevicesconnected.
Receiver details
WhenintheDevicestab,ifyouselectareceiver,youwillseealistoftabsapplicableonlyto
receivers.