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CHAPTER 5: On-Screen Functions, Same-Slot Users, and Connection Modes

5. On-Screen Functions,

Same-Slot

Users, and Connection Modes

This chapter discusses various operating functions of the ServSwitch Affinity that

involve the on-screen display. It also discusses the restrictions involved when there

are more than the maximum number (four, eight, or sixteen) of independent

users in the system (so that more than one user occupies the same slot number), as

well as the four “connection modes” that determine the level of control users have

over CPUs they select.

5.1 Logging In

The ServSwitch Affinity system can be configured to require users at any user

(KVM) station to type in a username and password in order to log into the system.

If you’ve set the system to do this, the login box shown in Figure 5-1 appears

whenever a unit is powered on, a user logs off, or when the automatic-logout

(keyboard/mouse inactivity) timeout expires (see Section 4.6).

Figure 5-1. The login box.

To log in, users must type in their user ID (username) and press [Enter]. If no

user ID has been defined for a given user (see Section 4.4), any user ID they enter

is simply deleted and ignored. If the user ID is correct, they must then type in their

password and press [Enter]. A user may log in with the same user ID at more than

one KVM station.

User ID

Password