Avocent AV108-400 User Manual

Vertiv™ AutoView™
AV104/AV108/AV116 Switch

Installer/User Guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Product Overview 1

1.1 Features and Benefits 1

2 Basic Operation 3

2.1 Using Keystroke Commands 4

2.1.1 Activation sequence commands 4

2.2 Using the On-Screen Display 5

2.3 Switching Between Targets 7

2.3.1 Local port commands 7

2.4 Enabling Port Binding 7

2.4.1 Pass-through USB port commands 8

2.5 Operating Scan Mode 8

2.5.1 Scan mode commands 8

2.6 Cascading Units 9

2.7 Upgrading Firmware 10

3 Appendix 11

Appendix A: Product Specification 11

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1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW

The Vertiv™ AutoView™ AV104/AV108/AV116 is a single-user analog switch that supports up to four, eight
or 16 target devices and can be 0U or 1U rack-mounted or used as a desktop device. It supports USB
keyboard, mouse and VGA video at the local user interface and USB and VGA or DisplayPort video at the
target devices. The switch does not have a web interface, therefore, all switching is done locally.

1.1 Features and Benefits

Depending on the model, the switch provides the following features and benefits:

• Buttons for switching among KVMtarget devices

• LEDlights that indicate active and connected targets

• Hotkey switching functionality

• On-screen display switching

• Three USB2.0 Type-A ports for connecting a keyboard, mouse and flash drive for firmware
upgrades

• Two USB 2.0 Type-A pass-through ports to allow you to use connected devices on a selected
target

• VGAvideo output to the local monitor of up to at least 2048 x 1536 pixels

NOTE: The 4-port model does not have on-screen display capability.

NOTE: The unit does not support an absolute mouse. Support is provided for a five-button, scrolling,
relative mouse.

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