Chapter 6
| Switch Management
How to Connect to the Console Port
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Data bits—8
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Flow control—None
Figure 22: Console Port Connection
Follow these steps to connect to the Console port:
1.
Connect one end of the included RJ-45 to DB-9 serial cable to a DB-9 COM port
connector on a management PC.
2.
Plug in the RJ-45 end of the serial cable to the Console port on the switch.
3.
Configure the PC’s COM port required settings using VT-100 terminal emulator
software (such as HyperTerminal) running on the management PC. The switch’s
default console port settings are:
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115200 bps, 8 data bits, 1-stop bit and no parity
4.
Log in to the command-line interface (CLI) using one of the default user login
settings:
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User — admin
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Password — admin
or
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User — guest
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Password — guest
