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Seamless cascading

You can increase the number of target devices

that users can access by creating a cascaded

switching system. You can connect target devices to up to three levels of AMX or non-Avocent

KVM switches. When cascading AMX switches, you can seamlessly connect to any target device

from a single list in the OSCAR interface, as if all the target devices were connected to one switch.

You can also cascade non-Avocent KVM switches, but to access the attached target devices you

must first select the non-Avocent switch from the OSCAR interface target list, and then connect to

the target device using the methods provided by the non-Avocent KVM switch.

Redundancy and scalability

You may connect two AMX matrix switches to a single user station to allow redundancy and fault

tol

erance. If one of the AMX switches has a power failure, the second switch provides an alternate

path to access the same set of target servers. In addition, you can extend your user station access to

additional target servers connected to a second AMX switch.

OSCAR graphical user interface

With the OSCAR graphical user interface, you can use your keybo

ard or mouse to select any

attached target device. This easy-to-use, menu-driven interface also enables you to administer

security settings, language and keyboard selection, hotkey sequences and other features.

Administration using the AMWorks software

The AMWorks Java-based system a

dministration software tool is supplied with each AMX

switch. Use it to assign names to attached target devices and users, designate user access rights,

monitor switching system events, and upgrade firmware. You can also use AMWorks software to

configure AMX switching system installations remotely, eliminating the need to configure each

unit separately.

System monitoring using the SNMP interface

The AMX switch supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to remotely

monitor the

switch via the Ethernet port. Once SNMP is configured, you can use the SNMP

protocol to manage and control user stations and their connections in the switching system.

Glossary

The following terms are used throughout this documentation:

• Cascading – Connecting multiple KVM switches to an AMX switch, providing additional

connections

for target devices. Cascading expands the number of target devices that can be

connected to the AMX switching system.

• Console – The user station and peripheral

devices used by each local user.

• IQ module – T

he primary interface between an attached device (KVM switch, serial device or

PS/2, Sun or USB server) and the

AMX

switching system.

modules are server-powered and

provide keyboard emulation, DDC (Digital Data Channel) and

AMX

switching system support.

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