3com 4228G User Manual

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C
HAPTER
 3: S
ETTING
 U
P
 
FOR
 M
ANAGEMENT
Setting Up 
Overview
This section gives an overview of what you need to do to get your Switch 
set up and ready for management when it is in its default state. The 
whole setup process is summarised in 
. Detailed procedural steps 
are contained in the sections that follow. In brief, you need to:
Configure IP information manually for your Switch or view the 
automatically configured IP information
Prepare for your chosen method of management
Figure 8   Initial Switch Setup and Management Flow diagram
CAUTION: To protect your Switch from unauthorized access, you must 
change all three default passwords as soon as possible, even if you do not 
intend to actively manage your Switch. For more information on default 
users and changing default passwords, see 
.
Plug and Play Setup
Initial IP Information Setup
Featur
e Management
Power up the Switch.
IP information is automatically configured.
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Do you want to
configure the IP information?
manually
No
Connect to a front panel
port and use the Web
Interface or Command
Line Interface.
Page 33.
How do you want to connect to the Switch?
Connect to the console
port and use the
Command Line Interface.
Page 36.
Use 3Com Network
Supervisor (3NS).
Page 40.
Connect to a console
port and use the
Command Line Interface.
Page 40.
How do you want to Manage your Switch? Page 45.
Command Line Interface
Connect over the
network via Telnet.
Page 45.
Connect via the
console port.
Page 45.
Connect over the
network.
Page 47.
How do you want to view the automatically
configured IP information?
SNMP
Page 47.
Web Interface
Yes
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