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At the College of Engineering, we have been happy with the purchase of several Avocent Autoview 2000s. You can chain the controllers, you can buy appropriate modules for each server type, and they send keyboard, mouse, and video over a CAT-5 cable back to one of the controllers. We have USB/VGA dongles, and we tested them briefly with a Sun Blade 100 which worked fine. I believe they also sell dongles for older sun types. Most of our rackmount servers are Windows, FreeBSD, or Linux. On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:40:10PM -0500, Wilson L Ndovie wrote: NAG Group: We am planning to purchase a new KVM switch for our server room. The majority of the machines are Windows servers, but there are also a couple of UNIX boxes in (Sun Solaris). Currently, the Sun systems are running as "headless" servers, but connecting a monitor and keyboard would sometimes be useful for troubleshooting purposes, especially if the system does not come up cleanly during a restart (which is actually quite rare). At any rate, since we will be purchasing a KVM for the Windows machines, it might be nice to have a "multi-platform" switch that we can use with both the Windows and Sun systems at the same time. We considered getting a KVM for the Windows machines and possibly a serial console switch for the Suns. but something that could combine the two platforms to use a single monitor and keyboard whould actually be quite handy. Has anyone out there made use of a multi-platform KVM that will work with both Windows and Sun Solaris systems? Any recommendations? All input will be most appreciated. Thanks. Wilson Ndovie Jim Brown =============================================== Wilson L. Ndovie PC Support Geography Department Michigan State University