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Chapter 5: Paragon II and P2ZCIMs/Z-CIMs

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individualP2ZCIMunitsatleastoneP2ZCIMmustbepoweredON;in

P2ZCIMchainsfrom21to42P2ZCIMunits,atleast15P2ZCIMsmust

bepoweredON.

P2ZCIM LED Status

TheLEDoneachP2ZCIMindicatesitsoperationalstate:

• IftheLEDblinksrapidly:P2ZCIMdoesnothaveaconfirmed

CommunicationAddress.

• IftheLEDisprimarilyoffandblinksoneverytwo(2)seconds:

P2ZCIMhasaconfirmedCommunicationAddressbutisnot

switchedtothatAddress.

• IftheLEDisonandblin

kson/offrapidlywhenthereis

keyboard/mousetraffic:CIMhasaconfirmedCommunication

AddressandisswitchedtothatAddress.

Note:TheP2ZCIMwillblinkfromtimetotimeevenifthereisno

keyboard/mousetraffic;thisdemonstratesthattheP2ZCIMis

operatingnormallyandnotlocked.

• IftheLEDisblinkingonandoffbutataregulated,moderatespeed

(thatis,everyhalfsecond):thatP2ZCIMisactingasManagerofthe

chain.

Paragon II and Z-CIMs

Z‐CIMinstallationrequiresthatserversareassignednameswhenadded

totheZ‐CIMchain.ThedefaultnameofanyZ‐CIMisitsserialnumber,

whichisnotmeaningfultoyou.InordertonametheZ‐CIM,itmustbe

connectedtoaserverthatispoweredonandtothePar

agonswitchtoget

statusandnameassignment.

ToorganizeandtrackZ‐CIMsandtheserverstowhichtheyare

connected,werecommendoneoftwomethods:

• RecordtheserialnumbersoftheZ‐CIMsconnectedtoeachserver,

andthennameallZ‐CIMsatoneti

meafterthechainiscomplete.

• FirstcompletethechainandthenpowerontheZ‐CIMoneatatime,

checkingtheserialnumberontheZ‐CIMasitisconnected,and

assigningthepropernametotheproperserverZ‐CIM.

WhennamingorrenamingaZ‐CIM,swi

tchtothatZ‐CIMtoactivateit,

therebyensuringthatitsnewname isupdatedintheParagonswitchʹs

database.