Cisco Systems Cisco 12008 manual Installing a Cable-Management Bracket

Removing and Replacing the Cable Management System

Installing a Cable-Management Bracket

For the procedure in this section, it is assumed that you have installed a new line card in the router, in which case you must also install a cable-management bracket on the card. A small hook on the top of the cable-management bracket allows you to hook the bracket onto small cutouts on the cable-management tray during a line card replacement procedure.

Note Before accessing any of the router’s internal components, put on an antistatic wrist strap and make sure that it makes adequate contact with your skin. Insert the equipment end of the wrist strap (the banana jack) into the ESD grounding socket on the lower left edge of the upper card cage (see Figure 7-24).

To install a cable-management bracket on a line card, perform the following steps:

Step 1 Attach the cable-management bracket to the line card by means of the two captive installation screws at the top and bottom of the cable-management bracket (see Figure 7-28).

Step 2 Carefully arrange the interface cables in the cable-management tray (for line cards with multiple ports); determine the appropriate length of each cable for the intended port and route the cables down to the line card ports.

Step 3 Starting with the bottom port on the line card, connect the interface cables to the intended port (see Figure 7-29,part 1).

Step 4 Carefully press the interface cable into the associated cable keeper clip on the cable-management bracket clip (see Figure 7-29, part 2). Avoid any kinks or sharp bends in the cable.

Step 5 Proceeding upward, carefully press the interface cable between the metal fingers that support the cable keeper clips (see Figure 7-29, part 3).

Step 6 Go back to Step 3 and proceed through the cable attachment procedure in a bottom-to-top direction until you have attached all the interface cables to the line card ports.

This completes the installation procedure for the Cisco 12008 cable-management bracket.

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