Asante Technologies 5212 user manual IntraSwitch Management

Setting Up For Management

IntraSwitch Management

Overview The IntraSwitch 5212 can be managed using any of the follow- ing methods:

	Table 4-1 Management Options
Method	Type	Description
Console	out-of-band	local connection to the IntraSwitch
	management	via the switch’s Console port
Telnet	in-band	remote connection over the
(one session)	management	network to the IntraSwitch via a
		terminal emulation program
World Wide	in-band	remote connection to the
Web browser	management	IntraSwitch 5212 via a supported
		World Wide Web browser
SNMP-based	in-band	remote connection to the
Network	management	IntraSwitch via any SNMP-based
Management		network management application
Software		such as IntraSpection

This chapter describes how to connect to the IntraSwitch 5212 using either out-of-band or in-band management, as illustrated in Figure 4-1.

For information on each management method, refer to the fol- lowing:

❏Console or Telnet management — see Chapter 5, "Console Management" in this manual.

❏World Wide Web browser management — see the Web Management Server Reference Guide.

❏SNMP-based Network Management Software — see the section on "SNMP-based Management Software" on page 4-7.

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