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C
HAPTER
2: S
ETTING
U
P
FOR
M
ANAGEMENT
Setting Up Over the
Network
To manage a Switch using the web interface over an IP network:
1
You must set up the Switch with IP information. To do this:
a
Access the web interface of the Switch through the console port. See
“Setting Up Through the Console Port”
on
page 33
.
b
Use the Getting Started pages or IP Setup page to enter suitable IP
information for the Switch.
For more information about IP, see
“Managing a Switch Over the
Network”
on
page 38
. For more information about the Getting
Started pages, see
“The Getting Started Pages”
on
page 46
. For more
information about the IP Setup page, see
“Setting Up IP Information”
on
page 58
.
2
You must have an IP stack correctly installed on your management
workstation. You can check this by trying to browse the World Wide
Web; if you can browse, an IP stack is installed.
3
Your management workstation must be connected to the Switch using a
port that is in VLAN 1 (the Default VLAN). By default, all ports on the
Switch are in VLAN 1. For more information about VLANs, see
“Virtual
LANs (VLANs)”
on
page 163
.
Installing Online Help
and Documentation
The CD-ROM supplied with your Switch contains online help and online
documentation that can be used with the web interface:
■
The online help system provides information for units in the Switch
family, and is in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format.
■
The online documentation comprises:
■
This Management Guide
■
User Guides of all units in the Switch family
All the online documentation is in HTML and PDF (Portable Document
Format).
To set up the online help and documentation:
1
Decide where the files are to be stored:
■
On a local drive of your management workstation (recommended)
■
On the CD-ROM, inserted into the CD-ROM drive of your
management workstation
■
On a network server
Summary of Contents for SuperStack II
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Page 173: ...VLAN Configuration for Beginners 173 Figure 34 Simple example Untagged connections using hubs ...
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