Cisco Systems MDS 9020 manual Accessing the Switch, Configuration Guide

Chapter 3 Initial Configuration

Accessing the Switch

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Accessing the Switch

After initial configuration, you can access the switch in the following ways:

•Serial console access—You can use a serial port connection to access the CLI.

•Out-of-band (10/100BASE-T Ethernet) access—You can use Telnet or SSH to access a Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch or use SNMP to connect to Cisco Fabric Manager.

Note To use Cisco Fabric Manager, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager

Configuration Guide.

Figure 3-2illustrates serial console access and out-of-band access.

Figure 3-2 Switch Access Options

Router

Console	Out of band
connection	management
	subnetwork

Switch 2

mgmt 0

(IP address: 172.16.1.2)

IP address	IP
172.16.1.1	network
Telnet or	CLI
SSH
	DNS server
	GUI

SNMP

Management LAN

(Ethernet connection)

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Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch Configuration Guide and Command Reference

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