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Keyboard Operating Platform
The KVM’s default port configuration is for a PC compatible keyboard. If you are using a PC compatible
keyboard and you have a Mac or Sun attached to a port, you can change the port’s keyboard operating
platform configuration to emulate a Mac or Sun keyboard.
Keyboard Operating Platform
1. Bring the KVM focus to the port you want to set.
2. Invoke HSM.
3. Press and release the appropriate Function key (see table below).
After completing this procedure, you automatically exit HSM.
The PC compatible (101/104 key) keyboard can emulate the functions of Mac and Sun keyboards when
the Control key [Ctrl] is used in conjunction with other keys. The emulation mappings are listed in the table
on the next page.
Function Key Operation
[F2] Enables Mac keyboard emulation, see Mac Keyboard Emulation,
[F3] Enables Sun keyboard emulation, see Sun Keyboard Emulation
[F10] Disables keyboard emulation. Key presses are passed straight through. When your console
uses a Mac keyboard to access a Mac attached to a port, for example