Chapter 8: Device Management142Configuring and Enabling TieringThe tiering feature allows you to access KX II targets and PDUs throughone base KX II device. This feature is available for standard KX IIdevices as well as KX2-832 and KX2-864 devices. Devices can beadded and removed from a configuration as needed up to a maximum oftwo tiered levels.When setting up the devices, you will use specific CIMS for specificconfigurations. See Tiering - Target Types, Supported CIMS andTiering Configurations (on page 144) for a description of the targetsthat can be included in a tiered configuration, CIM compatibility anddevice configuration information.Before adding tiered devices, you must enable tiering for the base deviceand the tiered devices. Enable base devices on the Device Settingspage. Enable tiered devices on the Local Port Settings page. Oncedevices are enabled and configured, they appear on the Port Accesspage (Port Access Page (on page 43)).When a KX II is configured to function as a base device or tiered device,they will be displayed as: Configured As Base Device in the Device Information section of theleft panel of the KX II interface for base devices. Configured As Tier Device in the Device Information section of theleft panel of the KX II interface for tiered devices. The base device will be identified as Base in the left panel of thetiered device's interface under Connect User. Target connections to a tier port from the base will be displayed as 2ports connected.The base device provides remote and local access over a consolidatedport list from the Port Access page. Tiered devices provide remoteaccess from their own port lists. Local access is not available on thetiered devices when Tiering is enabled.Tiering also supports the use of KVM switches to switch betweenservers. See Configuring KVM Switches (on page 160).
