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 Dominion KX I DCIM-USBG2 Usage

For Dominion KX I, the recommended usage depends on the firmware release as follows:

Dominion KX I

Release

CIM to Use

KX 1.3, KX 1.4, KX 1.4.x

DCIM-USBG2 for USB and

SUN USB Servers

KX 1.0.x, KX 1.1 and KX 1.2

DCIM-USB

DCIM-SUSB (Sun USB)

So most KX I customers should purchase the DCIM-USBG2, unless they are running a very old

firmware release. Of course, customers can upgrade free of charge to new firmware and use the

DCIM-USBG2 for increased reliability.

 Connect to Serial Devices with P2CIM-SER and Dominion KX II

The P2CIM-SER (and P2CIM-SER-EU for European market) can be used to connect a serial device

(networking device, headless server) to a Dominion KX II, Paragon II or Dominion KX.

The P2CIM-SER converts serial device input to a standard KVM signal for use with Paragon II and

Dominion KX I and KX II. The CIM is powered via USB from the serial device or the PWR-SER-4 four

port power adapter.

 CIM Usage for Blade Servers

Release 2.1 and above supports access, control and management for Dell, HP and IBM Blade Servers.

As of Release 2.4, the Cisco UCS blade server is supported. The type of CIM to be used for KVM

access depends on the KVM ports on the blade chassis or blade server the CIM is connected to, and

whether advanced features such as virtual media and absolute mouse synchronization are wanted and

supported by the blade server.

CIMs are connected to blade servers in two ways: (1) connect CIMs to each individual blade server or

(2) connect a CIM to the blade server chassis’ internal KVM switch or management module. The

following table describes the supported methods:

Blade Chassis CIM to

Chassis

CIM to

Blade

Dell 1855 & 1955

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Dell M1000e

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HP c7000

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HP c3000

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IBM S, H, E & HT

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IBM T



Cisco UCS

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Generic

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In general, most blade servers have USB ports, but certain older blade servers have PS2 ports. The

following CIMs are used with blade servers:

• DCIM-PS2 –PS2 ports

• DCIM-USBG2 –USB ports, no virtual media

• D2CIM-VUSB – USB, virtual media (if blade server supports it)

• D2CIM-DVUSB – USB, BIOS virtual media (if blade server supports it)

The supported and recommended CIMS for the different types of blade servers is as follows: