Ciena 6200 - Nodal Commissioning; Connecting the PC to the Local Craft Terminal of the 6200 Network Element

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6-2 Nodal commissioning

6200 Packet-Optical Platform Installation, Commissioning, and Testing Procedures

Release 1.1 009-6200-201 Draft Issue 1

2014 Ciena

Corporation September 2014

Procedure 6-1

Connecting the PC to the local craft terminal of the

6200 network element

Use this procedure to connect the PC to the Craft terminal of the 6200 network

element.

Prerequisites

•Review Chapter 1, Observing product and personnel safety guidelines.

• Make sure that you have a PC and an Ethernet cable with an RJ-45

connector.

• Make sure you have the network element IP address information if the

network element has already been commissioned.

Action

Step Action

1 Connect the Craft interface of the 6200 network element and the PC terminal

with an Ethernet cable of the RJ-45 connector type.

2 Configure the IP address of the PC to be in the same subnet as the 6200

network element.

Note 1: When connecting the PC to the Craft port of the network element,

your PC IP address must be 192.168.1.xxx where xxx is between 248 and

253. Alternately, the DHCP protocol can be enabled on the PC when it is

connected to the Craft port of the network element. With DHCP, the network

element will give an IP address automatically to the PC.

Note 2: When connecting the PC to the LAN port of a commissioned network

element, your PC IP address must reside in the same subnet as the Ethernet

IP of the network element. Also, configure the PC subnet mask to the network

element’s subnet mask and the PC default gateway must be in the same

subnet as the network element.

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