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Chapter 4
Keyboard Port Operation
This chapter details the concepts and procedures involved in the keyboard port
Hotkey operation of your CS1732
B / CS1734B installation; hotkey operation
within the OSD is discussed in the previous chapter, OSD Operation.
Hotkey Port Control
Hotkey Port Control allows you to provide KVM focus to a particular computer
directly from the keyboard. The CS1732
B / CS1734B provides the following
Hotkey Port Control features:
Selecting the Active Port
Auto Scanning
Skip Mode Switching
Invoking Hotkey Setting Mode (HSM)
All Hotkey operations begin by invoking Hotkey Setting Mode. Invoking
Hotkey Setting Mode (HSM) takes three steps:
1. Hold down the Num Lock key;
2. Press and release the minus key;
3. Release the Num Lock key:
[Num Lock] + [-];
When HSM is active:
The Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs flash in succession to indicate so.
They stop flashing and revert to normal status when you exit Hotkey
Mode.
Ordinary keyboard and mouse functions are suspended – only Hotkey
compliant keystrokes (described in the sections that follow), can be input.
Pressing [Esc] or [SpaceBar] exits HSM.