Most responses seems to agree that the Black Box ServSwitch
will work quite well for our purposes. Another suggestion was
using the Raritan Guardian Modules.
One person told me the KVMs weren't supported by Compaq;
unfortunately we found that out AFTER Compaq sold them to
us for use with the ES40s and we tried to get support for them!
Thanks to everyone who responded with the following:
John R. James Jr.
We have had a little trouble with some Cybex's that we use for stuff like
that. They are little different then the KVM, but we ended up taken the
Intel boxes off and things worked OK after that.
Lavelle, Bryan
Compaq KVM supplied for what type of systems? KVMs are not supported on
Alphas at all, even if they might work from time to time, though they
probably are on Intel based machines.
Robert Carsey
We have an ES40 , as1200, windows98, Sun E450 / Solaris 7, Sun Ultra10, and
a Sun Ultra1 on a KVM switch (8 port) by Raritan. We experienced similar
problems until we bought these "Guardian Modules" for the non-Windows
machines. They do some sort of code or signal converting so that to the
ES40, everything looks normal.
Kevin S. Partin
I use Raritan MasterConsole's as the KVM switch and put their PS/2 Guardian
on the keyboard and mouse ports to protect if the KVM switch dies (UNIX
systems do not take kindly to not having the keyboard and mouse disappear).
I was not completely satisfied with the MasterConsole without the Guardians.
The keyboards did not work right. Since I put the Guardian on my systems,
the KVM switch has worked like a champ with my AS2100, AS4100s and ES40s. I
think the Guardian costs $85 bucks (need one per system).
Michael Huntingdon
We set up one our customers with a Black Box product which has worked out
quite well.
We have an ES40, 4100, and ProLiant server on their 4 port model. It also
comes in an 8 port variant.
Tapani Tiensuu
While I don't use KVM with ES40, I use one connected to
one 4100, two 1000/A and one HP's Intel based server.
I use ServSwitches from BlackBox (www.blackbox.com).
Works fine, specially, the bandwidth is enough for big resolutions.
V.S. Glukhov
Black Box ServSwitch. Works perfectly.
-Joan Riggs
-----Original Message-----
From: Riggs, Joan [mailto:Joan.Riggs_at_kls.usaka.smdc.army.mil]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:12 AM
To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
Cc: Tompkins, John
Subject: ES40s and KVMs
I have three new ES40s. I am trying to use one Compaq-supplied KVM (at
latest firmware level) for all three systems so I can use one
monitor/mouse/kb for all three. I also have an Intel-based server and an
Alpha200 system on this same KVM. I use the same type KVM on other Intel
and Alpha systems with no issues. However, on the ES40s, I experience no
response from the keyboard/mouse to the ES40s on a regular basis.
We've tried every configuration combination we can think of and realize that
this KVM is simply not compatible with the ES40s. What does everyone else
use with ES40s? If you DO use the Compaq-supplied KVM with ES40s, what
configuration did you use?
Thanks in advance,
Joan Riggs
Raytheon RSE / KLS
Information Technology
805.355.9877 [ +12 GMT ]
joan.riggs_at_kls.usaka.smdc.army.mil
Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 19:09:42 NZST