9. Press the right-arrow key to choose Edit, then press Enter. Tab to fields and enter information as
follows:
a) Change Gateway to be the default router.
b) Tab to the IP Config (DHCP/Bootp) field and use the Space bar to select the Manual option.
c) Tab to the IP Address field and enter the switch’s control network IP address.
d) Tab to the Subnet Mask field and enter the subnet mask used for your network.
10. Press Enter, then right-arrow to Save. Press Enter and revert to previous menu.
11. Select Return to Main Menu and press Enter.
12. From the main menu, chose Console Passwords and press Enter.
The Set Password Menu opens.
13. Chose Set Manager Password and press Enter.
14. When prompted for the password, type a password of up to 16 ASCII characters with no spaces
and press Enter.
The password can be one that is used on other K2 devices, such as “adminGV!” or “GVAdmin”,
or it can be your site's administrator password.
15. When prompted to enter the password again, retype the password and press Enter.
16. Select Return to Main Menu and press Enter.
17. From the main menu, tab to Command Line (CLI) and press Enter.
The command prompt appears.
18. Type the following, then press Enter:
configure
You are now in configuration mode.
19. Configure an administrator username.
The username can be one that is used on other K2 devices, such as “Administrator” or
“GVAdmin”, or it can be your site's administrator username.
For example, to set the username to “administrator” type the following, then press Enter:
password manager user-name administrator
20. When prompted, enter and re-enter the password.
21. Set spanning tree to RSTP. To do this, type the following, then press Enter:
spanning-tree force-version rstp-operation
This configures spanning tree, but it does not turn spanning tree on. You must turn spanning tree
on using the switch’s Web interface.
22. Decide your SNMP community name as explained in the following options, then proceed with
the next step:
• If you decide to use a unique SNMP community name (not “public”), add the community
and set its RW permissions. For example, if the community name is “K2”, type the following,
then press Enter:
snmp-server community K2 unrestricted
• If you decide to use the default SNMP community “public” for NetCentral monitoring, which
already has RW permissions set as required by NetCentral, proceed to the next step.
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