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Setting Up Your Switch
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SNMP Management 
You can manage a switch using any network management workstation running 
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as shown in Figure 20. For 
example, you can use the 3Com Network Director software, available from the 
3Com website. For information on the 3Com’s network management tools, refer 
to Appendix D on page 69.
Figure 20   SNMP Management over the Network
Setting Up Your 
Switch
This section provides 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 summarized in Figure 21. Detailed 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.
SNMP Network Management
Workstation
Switch
Connect over Network
using SNMP