3Com 4210 PWR 26-PORT manual Setting Up Your, Refer to Setting Up Snmp Management on, Need to

Setting Up Your Switch 37

Figure 27 Web Interface Management over the Network

Switch

Workstation

Connect over Network

via web browser

Refer to “Setting Up Web Interface Management” on page 48.

SNMP Management You can manage a switch using any network management workstation running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as shown in Figure 28. For a description of 3Com network management applications refer to “3Com Network Management” on page 63.

Figure 28 SNMP Management over the Network

SNMP Network Management	Switch
Workstation
Connect over Network
using SNMP

Refer to “Setting Up SNMP Management” on page 49.

Setting Up Your	This section provides an overview of what you need to do to set up your switch so
Switch	that you can manage it in its default state. The setup process is summarized in
	Figure 29. Detailed steps are provided 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