Preparing for Management 54
Manually Configuring IP Information 55
Connecting to the Console Port 55
Connecting to a Front Panel Port 58
Viewing Automatically Configured IP Information 61
Using 3Com Network Director 62
Connecting to the Console Port 62
Setting Up Command Line Interface Management 64
User Interface Overview 64
CLI Management via the Console Port 64
CLI Management over the Network 64
Setting Up Command Line Interface Management using SSH 65
Setting Up Web Interface Management 66
Pre-requisites 66
Web Management Over the Network 67
Setting Up SNMP Management V1 or V3 67
Pre-requisites 68
Default Users and Passwords 68
Configuration Conversion Utility 69
4 CREATING AN XRN STACKING FABRIC
How To Interconnect Units 71
Guidelines For Interconnecting Units 74
Unit Numbering within the Fabric 74
5 PROBLEM SOLVING
Solving Problems Indicated by LEDs 78
Solving Hardware Problems 79
Solving Communication Problems 81
Solving Fabric Formation Problems 83
6 UPGRADING SOFTWARE
The Contents of the Executable File 86
Upgrading from the Command Line Interface 86
Introduction 86
TFTP 89
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