Is your line of work related to monitoring and administrating a number of rack network appliances? Most network servers today a slim and “headless” meaning they have no keyboard, video and mouse. They are simply CPUs specially made for 1 purpose alone, to be a server. They are made slim to maximize physical space in stacking several severs in server cabinets for server farms in big data centers.
One problem in being a network administrator for these types of setups is when it comes to a point that you really need to diagnose a server network appliance you need to connect a monitor to it to see what is going on. And you need to connect a keyboard and mouse to control the server appliance. Although there are systems with remote monitoring and remote access tools, there are really some instances where you need to connect to the server, isolated and directly in some cases.
When this is done, you either unplug the server and bring it to your service station where you have your video monitor and input devices, the keyboard and mouse, or you have a push cart of your monitor, keyboard and mouse that you push around in data centers to easily bring them to the network appliance you need to diagnose in server farms.
An easy solution to this cumbersome method of connecting to servers is the KVM2USB. The KVM2USB by Epiphan Systems, Inc. is a small device, probably as small as a paperclip box, where you plug it into your laptop computer’s USB port and it also has cables connecting to your server’s KVM ports. See KVM2USB Technical Specifications for more specific details on this device. It will run on-screen emulation of the server screen right through your laptop screen. Making this process more easily convenient.
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