McAfee M-1250 - 3 Setting up the Sensor; Setup Overview; Position the Sensor; Install the Ears on the Chassis

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Setting up the Sensor
This chapter describes the process of setting up a Sensor to prepare it for
conguration.
Contents
Setup overview
Position the Sensor
Cable the Sensor
Power on the Sensor
Setup overview
Setting up a Sensor involves the following steps:
Task
1
Positioning the Sensor.
2
Attaching power, network, and monitoring cables.
3
Powering on the Sensor.
Once you have set up and powered on the Sensor, you can proceed with the conguration.
See also
Position the Sensor on page 15
Cable Monitoring ports on page 21
Power on the Sensor on page 17
Position the Sensor
Place the Sensor in a physically secure location, close to the switches or routers it will be monitoring. Ideally, the
Sensor should be located within a standard communications rack.
To mount the Sensor on a rack, you will attach two mounting ears to the Sensor, then mount the ears to the
rack. The Sensor ears attach to either the front or the middle of the chassis.
The illustrations in the sub-sections show the M-1250/M-1450 Sensor.
Install the ears on the chassis
Before you begin
Before you install the ears on the chassis, make sure that power is OFF. Remove the power cable
and all network interface cables from the Sensor.
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