ServSwitch User's Manual

CHAPTER 3: Installation and Preconfiguration

3.6 Initial Configuration

Once you plug in and turn on a Matrix ServSwitch and it passes the power-up

diagnostic tests, you’ll need to set an important initial configuration parameter for

it. You’ll be able to fully configure all of the Switches in your system later from a

single user station, but it’s very important for your system operation that each

Switch at least have “starting computer” set properly before you do anything else

with it. How you’ll do this will depend on whether your Switch system consists of a

single unit (see Section 3.6.1) or a daisychain of multiple units (see Section 3.6.2).

In an all Sun installation with a monitor that doesn’t support 640 x 480 resolution,

when you power up the first of your Matrix ServSwitches with user stations attached

to it, you must use the Switch’s “Configure Computer” page in the Switch’s menu

system to change the keyboard settings for all of the CPU ports you’ll be using to

“Sun.” Save this configuration and copy it to your other Switches later—after all of

your Switches are powered up, but before your CPUs are powered up. Refer to the

start of Chapter 4 and to Sections 4.1 and 4.3.

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Take these steps:

1. Bring up the on-screen display:

a. Make sure that a keyboard, monitor, and mouse are attached to one of the

Matrix ServSwitch’s KVM ports through a User Cable, as described in

Section 3.3.4. The monitor must be able to support either 640 x 480

resolution or the resolution of any powered CPU attached to the Switch’s

lowest-numbered CPU port. (If you don’t have such a monitor, use a serial

connection instead; see Chapter 7.)

b. If you haven’t already done so, power up the Switch and wait for the

diagnostics screen (see Section 3.5) to fade away.

c. Press and release the left [Ctrl] key, then within two seconds press and

release the [F12] key. The on-screen menu should appear. Using the up-

and down-arrow keys, highlight the “Configure System” field and press

[Enter].

2. Verify the “Starting computer number.” This is the system-sequence number

that has to be assigned to the first CPU port on each Matrix ServSwitch. It

should be “1” for a single standalone Switch—and in fact that’s what the

default setting should be on all new Switches—but if your Switch is set to

something different, change it this way: Highlight the “Starting computer

number” field using the up- and down-arrow keys; press [Enter], type “1,” and

press [Enter] again.