Allied Telesis AT-9000/52 User Manual

Chapter 3: Basic Switch Parameters

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To view basic information about the switch, do the following:

1. Select the System Tab. 

The Dashboard Page is displayed. See Figure 4 on page 23.

The following fields are displayed:

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Up Time— Indicates the length of time since the switch was last 
reset or power cycled in days, hours, minutes and seconds.

The System section displays the following information:

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Software Version— Lists the software version number of the 
AlliedWare Plus software.

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Build Date/Time— Lists the month, date, year and time (in the 
hour:minute:second format) the software version was built.

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Serial No.— Lists the unique serial number of the switch.

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MAC Address— Specifies the MAC address of the switch.

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IPv4 Address— Displays the IPv4 address and subnet mask of 
the web interface. The IPv4 management address to assigned the 
switch. The address is specified in the following format:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Each “x” is a decimal number from 0 to 255. The numbers must be 
separated by periods.

For both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, the subnet mask is a decimal 
number that represents the number of bits, from left to right, that 
constitute the network portion of the address. Here are some 
examples:
— The decimal mask 16 is equivalent to the mask 255.255.0.0.
— The decimal mask 24 is equivalent to the mask 255.255.255.0
— The IPv6 decimal mask 24 is equivalent to the mask 
FFFF:FF00::0.

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IPv4 Gateway— Displays the IPv4 address of the next hop of the 
switch’s default route. The switch uses a default route when it 
receives a network packet for routing, but it cannot find an 
available route in the routing table. 

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System Name— Indicates the name of the switch. To configure 
this field, see “Setting the Switch Information” on page 41.