Before You Start
Before you take over the maintenance of the switch, you are advised to:
1
Obtain the network's
topology diagram and data plans
(including ports, VLANs, and IP addresses),
print them, and paste them in your equipment room for quick reference.
2
Print the following
contact information
and paste it nearby your workplace.
Contact method of the agent who is responsible for constructing your network and providing service
3
Prepare the
tools and cables
that you may use during device maintenance.
4
Visit Huawei enterprise technical support website (
http://support.huawei.com/enterprise
) to register
an
account
. Then you can browse or download more product documents, cases, and announcements,
and receive push messages from the website.
No.
Item
Description
1
Cable
Maintenance terminal
Instruments and meters
An RS232 serial cable: used to log in to the device through the console port.
Serial to USB converter: used to connect the USB port of the maintenance terminal to the
Console port of the switch.
Two straight-through cables: used to commission the management port or other services.
Multiple fibers and SFP/eSFP/SFP+/XSFP/QSFP+ optical modules: used to connect the switch
to other network devices.
A maintenance terminal can be a portable computer with serial communication software installed.
You can log in to the switch through the maintenance terminal.
Optical power meter: used to test optical parameters of optical ports
(such as optical power and receive sensitivity).
2
3
1
4
5
This document uses the command outputs of V200R003 as an example. If your switch is not running
V200R003, the actual command outputs may be different. This document will provide the important
version differences.
