User guide
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VGA-based video
Basic CIM features
USB Servers
DCIM-USBG2
Digital Visual Interface (DVI-I & DVI-A)
Servers with DVI ports that support DVI-A (analog) and DVI-I (integrated analog and digital) can use
the Raritan ADVI-VGA adapter to convert the DVI port to a standard VGA plug that can be
connected to a KX III CIM’s VGA plug.
Raritan’s ADVI-VGA adapter can be used with any Raritan CIM which has a VGA plug.
Servers with DVI ports that support DVI-I or DVI-D (digital) can use the new D2CIM-DVUSB-DVI.
Connect to Serial Devices with P2CIM-SER and Dominion KX III
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 III.
The P2CIM-SER converts serial device input to a standard KVM signal for use with Paragon II and
Dominion KX II and KX III. 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 3.0 and above supports access, control and management for Dell, HP, Cisco and IBM Blade
Servers. 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
Dell M1000e
HP c7000
HP c3000
IBM S, H, E & HT
IBM T
Cisco UCS
Generic
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: