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C
HAPTER
3: S
ETTING
U
P
FOR
M
ANAGEMENT
Web Management
Over the Network
To manage a Switch using the web interface over an IP network:
1
Check that you have the IP protocol correctly installed on your
management workstation. You can check this by trying to browse the
World Wide Web. If you can browse, the IP protocol is installed.
2
Check that you can communicate with the switch by entering a
ping
command at the DOS prompt in the following format:
c:\ ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the switch’s IP address)
If you receive an error message, check that your IP information was
entered correctly and that the awitch is powered up.
3
Open your Web browser and enter the IP address of the switch that you
wish to manage in the URL locator in the following format:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
4
At the login prompt, enter
admin
as your user name and press
Return
at
the password prompt (or the password of your choice if you have already
modified the default password).
5
Click on the
Device View
to display the Web management options.
Setting Up SNMP
Management
Any network management application running the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage a switch if the management
workstation is connected to the switch using a port on the management
VLAN. By default, the management VLAN is 1, and all ports on the switch
are in VLAN 1.
For a description of 3Com’s network management applications, see
“3Com Network Management” on page 75
.
Prerequisites
■
The default read community string is
public
. The default write
community string is
private
.
■
To display the current configuration of the community strings in the
System View, enter
display snmp-agent community
.
■
To configure new read community strings, enter
snmp community
read
(new community string up to 32 characters).
■
To configure new write community strings, enter
snmp community
write
(new community string up to 32 characters).
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