3Com 4500G - Setting Up for Management; Methods of Managing a Switch; Manually Configuring IP Information; Setting Up Command Line Interface Management

3 SETTING UP FOR 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. This is known as
managing 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 Overview
■ 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.