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Switch Setup
Overview
This section gives an overview of what you need to do to get your
switch set up and ready for management when it is in its default state.
The whole setup process is summarized in Figure 4. Detailed
procedural steps are contained in the sections that follow. In brief, you
need to:
Configure IP information manually for your switch or view the
automatically configured IP information
Prepare for your chosen method of management