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28 C
HAPTER
1: C
ONFIGURATION
O
VERVIEW
Configuration
Procedure
Follow the steps that apply to your network needs and ignore the steps
that do not apply.
1 Establish management access.
To perform configuration or management tasks, you must initially:
a Connect to the system through its terminal serial port or modem serial
port.
For information about the required settings for the serial ports, see
Chapter 2 in this guide.
b Use the Administration Console as the management interface.
The Administration Console is a menu-driven command line interface
that is embedded in the system software. For specific menu and
command information, see the
Command Reference Guide .
2 Choose a subsequent management access method.
You can continue to access your system through a local serial connection,
or you can use one of two other local access methods — any in-band
port on a media module or the out-of-band 10BASE-T port on the system
processor module. To manage the system through either access method,
you must first configure an IP address:
■
To configure an IP address for an out-of-band port — Using the
serial port connection from step 1, configure an IP address through
the
management ip interface
menu. For more information, see
Chapter 2.
■
To configure an IP address for an in-band port — Using the serial
port connection from step 1, configure an IP address by defining an IP
VLAN (through the
bridge vlan
menu; see Chapter 9) and an
associated IP interface (through the
ip interface
menu; see
Chapter 11).