A
S
ERIAL
 W
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 U
TILITY
Introduction
If you are using a management workstation running Microsoft 
Windows
®
95/98 and you want to access the web interface through the 
console port of your Switch, you must use the 3Com Serial Web Utility 
(SLIP driver) on the CD-ROM supplied with the Switch. You can find the 
utility in the \win95\drivers\slip\ directory on the CD-ROM.
Every time you want to access the Web interface, use the Serial Web 
Utility to set up the connection to the Web interface; it launches your 
Web browser and accesses the Web interface for you using the Serial Line 
Interface Protocol (SLIP).
If you have any problems accessing the Web interface using the Serial 
Web Utility, see “
Solving Serial Web Utility Problems” on page 219.
Installing the Serial 
Web Utility
The Serial Web Utility can be installed on to a management workstation 
that already has 3Com Transcend
®
 management applications installed on 
it.
By default, the Serial Web Utility is installed in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\3Com\3Com Serial Web
This can be changed during the installation if required.
To install the Serial Web Utility:
1
Start Windows 95/98.
If you already have an existing Transcend management application 
running, ensure that it is closed down.
2
Insert the CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
3
Select 
Run
 from the 
Start
 menu.