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Accessing the switch for the first time
Setting up the configuration environment
The switch supports the following ways to connect the configuration terminal:
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Through the console port by using the serial console cable
The switch comes with the serial console cable. This way is preferred.
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Through the Mini USB console port by using the user-supplied USB mini console cable
Do not use the two ways together on the same switch.
The example uses a console cable to connect a console terminal (PC) to the serial console port on
the switch.
Figure 43 Connecting the serial console port to a terminal
Connecting the console cable
Serial console cable
A serial console cable is an 8-core cable, with a crimped RJ-45 connector at one end for connecting
to the serial console port of the switch, and a DB-9 female connector at the other end for connecting
to the serial port on the console terminal.
Figure 44 Serial console cable
Main label
1
8
B side
B
Pos.9
Pos.1
A side
A
