Black Box 16 port, 24 port manual Set up procedure

Set up procedure

To manually set up an IP address proceed as follows;

1.Set up a terminal or PC running terminal emulation. For examples of connection pinouts see Appendix A Cabling information.

If you connect via the Admin Port you will see a display of diagnostic and bootup messages.

Note that if you cannot emulate VT100, you will have to use the Command Line Interface (cli); (the cli commands are described in full in Appendix B The CLI commands).

2.At the console, with the login prompt displayed, type admin and press <return>.

3.At the password prompt, now displayed type superuser and press <return>. This is the default admin user password.

The command line prompt will now be displayed:

4.At the command prompt type screen and press <return> to enter Full Screen mode.

The main menu is now displayed:

5.At the main menu, select ‘server configuration’. (alternatively, use the cli command set server)

The server form will be displayed as shown in the next picture:

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