3Com 1000BASE-SX quick start Console 1Log in to the EME

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Managing the You configure and manage the front panel ports on the GEN Interface Module Module using the Administration Console, which is a command line

interface that you access from a terminal that is connected through the Enterprise Management Engine (EME).

At the command prompt, you do not connect directly to a GEN Interface Module; you manage GEN Interface Modules by connecting to the primary GEN Switch Fabric Module backplane ports that correspond to where you have installed the GEN Interface Module in the chassis. To learn how GEN Switch Fabric Module backplane ports are assigned to chassis slots, see Table 1 and Table 2 earlier in this guide.

To manage GEN Interface Module ports from the Administration

Console:

1Log in to the EME.

For information about logging in to the EME, see the CoreBuilder 9000 Enterprise Management Engine User Guide.

2At the prompt, enter:

connect <slot>.1

Where <slot> is the slot number of the module that you want to manage, and the number after the decimal point is a subslot number (the subslot number is always 1).

Because you manage the GEN Interface Modules through the GEN

Switch Fabric Module, you always connect to slot 7 in the

CoreBuilder 9000 7-slot chassis and to slot 8 or slot 9 in the

CoreBuilder 9000 16-slot chassis.

This command connects you to the primary GEN Switch Fabric Module, and the Administration Console displays the top-level menu prompt.

3To manage a GEN Interface Module port, enter commands for the corresponding backplane port on the primary GEN Switch Fabric Module.

For information about module commands, see the Command Reference Guide.