Specifications

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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD
3.2 Placement
The ServSwitch Wizard should be placed on a desktop or shelf near your monitor
and peripherals. You can use the optional Remote-Control Module if you want to
put a Wizard farther from your monitor and peripherals.
3.3 Connecting Your Equipment
NOTES
When you connect devices to Wizards’ “control ports” and “CPU ports,”
refer to Figure 2-2 in Section 2.3 to see where these ports are.
Any unused CPU-port or control-port connectors on a ServSwitch
Wizard can be left vacant.
Most ServSwitch Wizard applications will involve a keyboard, monitor, mouse, and
two to four computer CPUs attached to a single Wizard. If that describes what you
want to do, follow the procedure in Section 3.3.1.
If you want to switch between more than four CPUs, you’ll need multiple
cascaded Wizards to connect them together. Follow the procedure in Section 3.3.2.
If your CPUs have multiple video outputs, you will need multiple synchronized
Wizards to switch between the CPUs. Follow the procedure in Section 3.3.3.
NOTE
It is theoretically possible to install a synchronized cascade, but we
don’t recommend doing this. If you need to switch between large
numbers of computers with multiple video outputs, we strongly suggest
that you consider a KVM-switching system designed to handle such
applications, such as our ServSwitch™ Multi.
As described in Sections 3.3.1 through 3.3.3, you might want to use ServSwitch
Duo User-Extension Cables or CPU-Extension Cables to connect your equipment,
or even ServSwitch Brand KVM extenders if the distances involved are long
enough. And to connect PC/AT style equipment, you’ll need adapters. These
cables, extenders, and adapters are described in Section 3.3.4.