Step 2: Up and Running
IN THIS SECTION
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Customize the Basic Conguraon | 6
Now that the EX4600 is powered on, let’s do some inial conguraon to get it up and running on the
network. It’s simple to provision and manage the EX4600 using the CLI.
Plug and Play
The EX4600 switch ships with factory-default sengs that enable plug-and-play operaon. These
sengs load as soon as you power on the switch.
Customize the Basic Conguraon
You can easily customize the factory-default conguraon using CLI commands. You can revert to the
factory-default conguraon whenever you want.
Have the following informaon handy before you begin customizing switch sengs:
• Hostname
• Root authencaon password
• Management port IP address
• Default gateway IP address
• (Oponal) SNMP read community, locaon, and contact informaon
1. Verify that the serial port sengs for your laptop or desktop PC are set to the default:
• Baud Rate—9600
• Flow Control—None
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