After the boot sequence has been completed, the console login screen will be displayed.
Connecting to the Switch for the First Time
By default, there is no
Username
and
Password
configured in the account settings of this
switch. This will allow the user to simply connect to this Switch for the first time by pressing
the ‘
Enter
’ key. After pressing
Enter
, access will be given to enter commands after the
command prompt (
Switch>
) appears.
NOTE:
The first user automatically gets Administrator level privileges. At least one
Administrator-level user account must be created for the Switch.
NOTE:
It is highly recommended to create a user account containing a username
and a password on the Switch to prevent unauthorized access to the management
interface.
Connecting to the MGMT Port
The front panel of the Switch features an Out-Of-Band (OOB) RJ-45 MGMT port which can
be used to connect to a computer using a standard Ethernet cable. A web browser or
Telnet client can be used to connect to the Switch using the MGMT port. To use the MGMT
port, connect one end of an Ethernet cable to a computer and the other end to the Switch.
The default IP address of the MGMT port is 192.168.0.1 and the subnet mask is
255.255.255.0. Make sure that the computer being used for the switch management has a
non-conflicting IP address in the 192.168.0.0/24 network.
To view the IP settings of the MGMT port, use the following command:
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