From: Evan Leibovitch via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
Given that it would draw so little power, doesn't it make sense to have the KVM switch plugged into the same UPS as your PCs?
(And if at least some of your PCs aren't on UPSs, confused EDID is probably the least of your risks.)
Yes it does, but only because of this bug. I don't have monitors on a UPS so why put the KVM switch on the UPS? If I want to access the servers, I can SSH in from a laptop (with a built-in UPS). BTW, many KVMs are only powered by USB from the host computers. That's a little inconvenient if all the hosts are off: the selection is lost. I run into this when only one host is on, and I reboot it. I have to quickly reselect that host if I want the intereact with the boot sequence. I do that so rarely that I forget and have to reboot a second time.