Tiered KX III Connection Example

The following diagram illustrates the cabling configurations between a KX III tiered device and a KX III base device.

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Steps

	KX III Base device
	KX III Tiered device
	CIM to connect the target server to KX III the Tiered device.
	Target server
	Base device Tier port to Tiered device Tier port connection: Connect one end of a Cat5/5e/6 cable into a target server port on the KX III Base device. Connect the other end of the cable into the Tier port on the KX III Tiered device.
	Tiered device connection to the target server keyboard/video/mouse ports: Connect one end of a Cat5/5e/6 cable into a target server port on the KX III Tiered device, and the other end into a supported CIM such as the D2CIM-DVUSB. Connect the keyboard, mouse and video plugs on the CIM to the corresponding ports on the target server.