Asante Technologies 1012 manual Setting Up Out-of-Band Links, Interconnecting Hubs

Setting Up

Out-of-Band

Links

Setting Up Out-of-Band Links

Using AsantéView 2.2 Out-of-Band to manage your new AsantéBridge 1012 requires that you link your AsantéBridge 1012 into an out-of-band daisychain.This is very much like the in-band daisychain described earlier, except that this arrangement is for network management only and is not part of the normal network wiring.

Setting up out-of-band links involves three steps:

❏Linking hubs together (twelve maximum)

❏Connecting your Asanté Management Station

❏Configuring hub DIP switches

Interconnecting Hubs

Linking the hubs together is always done the same way. Connect- ing your Asanté Management Station can be done three different ways. Configuring the DIP switches depends on the position of a hub in the daisychain and on where and how your Asanté Manage- ment Station is connected.

You interconnect AsantéHubs and AsantéBridges using the AMS Link ports found on the rear panel of the AsantéBridge 1012 and AsantéHub 1012, and the Network Management Module of the AsantéHub 2072. Logically, the arrangement looks like this:

Hub #1

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

Hub #2

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

Hub #3

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

In-Band network
backbone	Out-of-band RJ45
Out-of-band RJ45
link	link

Figure 2-9 Out-of-Band Links

The thin Ethernet backbone is shown for reference only. How you configure the in-band linking is independent of the out-of-band linking.You can have any kind of in-band link you want or not have in-band links at all.

❖Note:The two out-of-band RJ45 AMS Link ports are elec- trically identical; it does not matter which port you use. There are no in or out ports for out-of-band. ❖

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