Specifications

SERVSWITCH WIZARD PRO

5.5 Keyboard Control: Hotkey Commands

You can control many functions on the ServSwitch Wizard Pro—such as CPU-

channel selection, autoscanning, or locking—from the keyboard, using commands

triggered with the Switch’s currently selected hotkey combination. All of the

hotkey-control commands are invoked by holding down the one or two hotkeys

and then pressing a command key. By default, the two hotkeys are [Ctrl] and [Alt],

although other keystroke combinations can be selected (see Section 4.2.6).

Normally, when you send a hotkey command, you have to release the hotkeys

and the command key before you can send another one. The one exception to

this rule is {Hotkeys} + [Tab], the “switch to next CPU channel” command; you can

“tab through” the channels by holding down the hotkeys and repeatedly pressing

[Tab].

The hotkey commands are summarized below. Note that to generate the

numeric digits in the commands that contain them, you need to press the number

keys on the top row of the main section of the keyboard, not the number keys on

the keypad; the Switch will not recognize keypad numbers.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [x], where x is a number from one to four (on the 4-port

model) or one to eight (on the 8-port model), to switch to the corresponding

CPU channel. If you try to select a channel with a higher number than the

Switch has ports, the Switch will ignore the command and pass it through

to the currently selected computer.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [Tab] to switch to the next channel in numeric sequence.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [M] to get the Switch to display its on-screen menu for

selecting computers by name.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [A] to have the Switch start autoscanning (briefly displaying

the video from each CPU channel in turn). You can control whether or not it

scans empty channels, and for how long it pauses at each channel, with the “L”

and “T” configuration commands respectively (see Section 4.2.3). To stop

autoscanning, simply select a fixed channel using the on-screen menu, the

Switch’s front-panel pushbutton, the keyboard hotkeys, or the mouse.

Please note that, in cascaded systems, it is not possible to scan through all of

the channels on every Switch in the same scan. Each Switch must be scanned

separately.