Accton Technology ES4710BD manual Management Options, Switch Management, Out-of-band Management

ES4710BD 10 Slots L2/L3/L4 Chassis Switch

Chapter 4 Switch Management

4.1Management Options

After purchasing the switch, the user needs to configure the switch for network management. ES4710BD provides two management options: in-band management and out-of-band management.

4.1.1Out-of-band Management

Out-of-band management is the management through Console interface. Generally, out-of-band management is used for initial switch configuration, or when in-band management is not available. For instance, the user must assign an IP address to the switch via the Console interface to be able to access the switch through Telnet.

The procedures for management via Console interface are listed below:

Step 1: Setting up the environment:

connected with serial port cable

Fig 4-1 ES4710BD Out-of-band Management Configuration Environment

As shown in Fig 4-1, the serial port (RS-232) of a PC is connected to the switch with the serial cable provided. The table below lists all the devices used in the connection.

Device Name	Description
PC	Has functional keyboard, RS-232, and a terminal emulator
	installed, such as the HyperTerminal which is included in
	Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP.
Serial port cable	One end attaches to the RS-232 serial port, the other end to the
	Console port of ES4710BD.
ES4710BD	Functional Console port required.
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