38CHAPTER 4: USING THE LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACCESS

Connecting the PC Perform the steps below to connect the PC to the LMA port:

Terminal Emulator

1Remove the cover from the LMA section of the VCN AP as in the figure below.

Figure 27 LMA Section of the VCN Access Point

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2Connect the LMA port to the PC serial port (COM1 or 2) with the cable provided you; if you do not have the cable, contact 3Com. Plug the end of the cable with the a four-pin MiniDIN connector into the VCN AP LMA port.

VCN Access Point This section describes the menus.

Menus

Summary and This section provides a menu hierarchy to describe the structure of the Structure of the menu system and a menu summary to help the network administrator

Menus use the management system efficiently.

The chart in Figure 28 summarizes the menu hierarchy. The abbreviations next to the menu names are suggestions for how the menus are used. Most of the menus labeled D are not described further in this chapter since they are used mainly by developers for debugging. The debug menus for performing loopbacks are described since loopbacks can be used by network administrators to solve problems.

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