3Com 3C172203, 3C17204 manual Initial Switch Setup Methods, Manual Setup Automatic Setup

30CHAPTER 3: SETTING UP FOR MANAGEMENT

Preparing for Once your Switch’s initial set up is complete you can set up your chosen Management management method as described in “Methods of Managing a Switch”

on page 39.

For detailed information about the specific web interface operations and command line interface commands and problem solving, refer to the “SuperStack 3 Switch Management Interface Reference Guide” on the CD-ROM that is supplied with the Switch.

Initial Switch Setup Before you begin the initial setup of your Switch, you must first determine your preferred setup method. There are two setup methods:

■Manual Setup — You have two choices of how to configure the IP information, as shown in Table 9.

■Automatic Setup — Your Switch must be online, that is, connected to a network. You have two choices of how to view the allocated IP information, as shown in Table 9.

Table 9 Initial Switch Setup Methods

Manual Setup		Automatic Setup
Connecting to a front panel	Use the web interface to	Using 3Com Network	Use 3Com Network
port	manually enter IP	Supervisor	Supervisor to detect the
	information by accessing		automatically allocated IP
	the Switch using its default		information.
	IP address
	169.254.100.100.
Connecting to the console	Use the command line	Connecting to the console	Use the command line
port	interface to manually enter	port	interface to view the
	IP information.		automatically allocated IP
			information.