Avaya 580, 882 Setting Up Your Laptop or PC, Performing Initial Setup of the Switch

2-2 User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1
Chapter 2
Setting Up Your Laptop or PC
You need a laptop or PC to make a serial line connection to the switch to
complete initial switch setup. Ta ble 2-1 lists the settings required for the
laptop or PC to communicate with th e switch.
Performing Initial Setup of the Switch
Before you can use Telnet or the Web Agent to configure the switch, you
must connect a laptop or PC to the console port and assign the switch an IP
address and subnet mask.
Before Moving a
Supervisor Module Before moving a supervisor module (either active or standby) to another
chassis, you must initialize NVRAM on the module (nvram initialize CLI
command).
If you do not initialize NVRAM before moving a supervisor module to
another chassis and assigning it a new IP address, the supervisor retains its
console IP address, console MAC address, and chassis information. This
problem may cause:
■Duplicate IP addresses
■Inaccurate chassis information that can cause the switch to not
operate correctly.
Assigning an IP
Address To perform ini tial setup of the switch:
1. Attach a 9-pin straight-through male-to-female serial cable from the
serial port on your laptop or PC to the serial port on the supervisor
module’s front panel (Figure2-1).
Table 2-1. Laptop or PC Settings
Baud Rate Stop Bits Data Bits Flow Control Parity
9,600 1 8 Xon/Xoff None