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So, earlier today while bashing our heads against a wall we were trying to locate some information on the SVEC FD7419 KVM Console Switch. This piece of hardware has been installed in the office for quite some time now and since then we’ve been through about 3 or 4 sys admins and nobody really knows how to configure it.

After searching for a while and finding nothing, we eventually worked out what we wanted to know through trial and error. So for everybody else who has SVEC KVM and can’t locate the manual and can’t locate SVEC for a manual (they seem to have gone out of business) heres a quick run down on what we found.

The default password is 00000000 and the hotkey is scroll lock, scroll lock (that’s a double-tap on scroll-lock), once you’ve hit that, you can follow it up with any of the keys below:

• R - Reflash ROM (wipe it clean and start from defaults)
• SPACE - Enter the Configuration (setup names, etc.)
• F - Find (Type in machine name, it’ll locate that machine)
• UP - Browse up through all the connected machines
• DOWN - Browse down through all the connected machines
• ESC - Go back to normal keyboard connected to the machine mode

Hope this is useful to you, it took us a bit of trial and error to sort this thing out with no manual and theres pretty much no useful google results for the FD7419, so i figured i’d write something so anyone else having the headache we were can sort the problem and move on.