Motorola P880 User Manual

Cajun P880 Routing Switch Installation Guide 

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To complete initial switch setup, you need a PC with a serial line 
connection. It must have the following terminal settings to 
communicate with the switch (Table 7). 

To connect to the Web Agent, you must first use the serial command 
line interface (CLI) to give the supervisor module an IP address and 
a subnetwork mask. To configure the supervisor module using the 
CLI:

1. Attach a serial cable from your PC’s serial port to the serial port 

of the supervisor module front panel (refer to Figure 13.) using a 
9-pin straight-through male-to-female serial cable (refer to 
“Switch Features,” earlier in this guide for pinout information).

2. Run a terminal emulation program (HyperTerminal, for 

example) on the attached PC. Ensure that the terminal settings 
match those listed in Table 7.

3. Power up the switch by turning on the power supplies. In the 

terminal emulation program, the switch displays the following 
startup messages:

Booting the operational system, please wait ....
Initializing the event subsystem ... done

Initializing the agent subsystem ... done

Initializing the platform ...
    Resetting Thunderbolt ...done.

    Setting  module to MASTER and resetting chips ...done.

    Creating Ethernet Console ...done.
    Creating Display Manager ...done.

done

Initializing the switch subsystem ... done
Starting up threads ...

    Periodic Task

    Event
    Network Interface

    Switch  Interface

    Module Manager

1

8

Xon/Xoff

None