kvm (keyboard, video, mouse) command

This command sets and displays the blade server that is in control of the BladeCenter unit shared KVM.

Table 1. kvm command
Function	What it does	Command	Valid targets
Display KVM owner	Displays the number of the blade server that has KVM ownership and the global local KVM switching state for all blade servers. A blade server that occupies more than one blade bay is identified by the lowest bay number that it occupies. A return value of 0 indicates that no owner is set.	`kvm`	`-T system`
Set KVM owner	Sets a blade server as the KVM owner.	`kvm -b` blade_server where blade_server is the blade-bay number that identifies the blade server. A blade server that occupies more than one blade bay is identified by the lowest bay number that it occupies. A setting of 0 sets no owner. Command use restricted (see Commands and user authority).	`-T system`
Enable / disable local KVM switching globally	Enable or disable local KVM switching globally for all blade servers.	`kvm -local` state where state is `enabled` or `disabled`. Command use restricted (see Commands and user authority).	`-T system`

Example:

To set the KVM owner to the blade server in blade bay 1, while management module 1 is set as the persistent command environment, at the system:mm[1]> prompt, type

                  kvm -T system -b 1

To display the KVM owner and global local KVM switching state for all blade servers, while management module 1 is set as the persistent command environment, at the system:mm[1]> prompt, type

                  kvm -T system

The following example shows the information that is returned from these two commands:

               system:mm[1]> kvm -T system -b 1
OK
system:mm[1]> kvm -T system
-b 1
-local enabled
system:mm[1]>