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4. Terminal Setup
To congure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or
notebook computer and the RJ45 cable to RJ45 console port of the Managed
Metro Switch as shown in Figure 4-1.
Managed Switch
PC / Workstation
with
Terminal Emulation Software
Serial Port
RS232 to RJ45 Cable
Console Port
RJ45
Figure 4-1: Managed Metro Switch Console Connectivity
A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the
Managed Metro Switch. Tera Term program may be a good choice.
1. Run terminal program on the OS.
2. When the following screen appears, make sure that the COM port should be
conguredas:
Baud: 115200
Data bits: 8
Parity:None
Stop bits: 1
Flowcontrol:None
Figure 4-2: COM Port Conguration