Specifications

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SERVSWITCH
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BRAND CAT5 KVM EXTENDER
7.3.4 P RIVATE M ODE (D UAL -A CCESS AND S WITCHING E XTENDERS O NLY )
CAUTION!
Do not use private mode if you have a Switching (ACU1049A) Remote
Unit attached to a Single-Access (ACU1001A) or Dual-Access
(ACU1009A) Local Unit with firmware version lower than S5.0. See the
first Caution notice in Section 6.3.
For applications in which one station is not in a secure location, or must be
temporarily kept from accessing the local PC, users at one station in a Dual-Access
or Switching Extender system can trigger the Extender’s “Private Mode,” which
prevents the other station from taking control of the local PC even if the inactivity
timeout (see Section 7.3.3) expires. Private Mode is handled differently by the two
models:
• With the Dual-Access Extender, the local user station can go into Private Mode
and lock out the remote station, but not vice versa. When users at the local
station have control of the Extender, they can force it into Private Mode
(taking exclusive control of the PC) by pressing Scroll Lock once on the local
keyboard. The Scroll Lock LED will light on both the local and remote
keyboards. Other than this indication, the remote station is almost completely
disabled: The monitor goes blank and the keyboard and mouse stop working.
(If you don’t want the remote monitor to be blanked during Private Mode, set
DIP-switch position 1 to ON—see Section 5.2.2.)
Local users must press Scroll Lock again to re-enable the remote user
station; when they do so, the Extender also reinitializes the local keyboard and
mouse. (To reset the local keyboard and mouse without going into Private
Mode, quickly press and release Scroll Lock twice, as directed in Section 7.3.1.)
• With the Switching Extender, either station can go into Private Mode, taking
exclusive control of the local PC and locking out the other. When users at
either the local or remote station have control of the local PC, they can force
the Extender into Private Mode by pressing and releasing the hotkey at their
keyboard, then pressing and releasing Scroll Lock. The Scroll Lock LEDs on
their keyboards will flash to show that Private Mode is active.
If the remote station goes into Private Mode and locks out the local station,
the local monitor’s screen will be blanked, the local keyboard and mouse will
be disabled, and all three of the local keyboard’s LEDs (Num Lock, Caps Lock,
and Scroll Lock) will light to show that the station is locked out and can’t
access the local PC. The local station will be unusable until the remote station
exits Private Mode. In the meantime, the Scroll Lock LED on the remote
keyboard will continue to flash as long as the remote user has the local PC
selected. The remote user can switch to the remote PC (see Section 7.3.5),
during which time the Scroll Lock LED will behave normally, but Private Mode