3Com 4500G Series - Setting Up Switch Management; Methods of Managing a Switch; Command Line Interface (CLI) Management

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SETTING UP SWITCH MANAGEMENT
To make full use of the features offered by your switch, and to change and
monitor the way it works, you have to access the management software that
resides on the switch. Managing the switch can help you to improve the efficiency
of the switch and therefore the overall performance of your network.
This chapter explains the initial set up of the switch and the different methods of
accessing the management software to manage a switch. It covers the following
topics:
■ Methods of Managing a Switch
■ Setting Up Your Switch
■ Manually Configuring IP Information
■ Viewing Automatically Configured IP Information
■ Setting Up Command Line Interface Management
■ Setting Up Command Line Interface Management using SSH
■ Setting Up Web Interface Management
■ Setting Up SNMP Management V1 or V2
■ Default Users and Passwords
■ For information on the lost password procedure please refer to the
Configuration Guide that is supplied with your switch.
Methods of Managing
a Switch
You can manage your switch using the:
■ Command line interface
■ Command line interface using SSH
■ Web interface
■ SNMP
Command Line Interface
Management
Each switch has a command line interface (CLI) that allows you to manage the
switch from a workstation, either locally using a console port connection (see
Figure 17), or remotely over the network (see Figure 18).