Cisco Systems TEG-S2500i manual Out-of-band Terminal-mode Management

1.3 Initial set up for management

There are two management ways can be chosen, one is out-of-band management, you work this way with a PC and connect your PC and switch through RS232 cable. The other way is in-band-management, you also work with a PC but connect your PC and switch through Ethernet network no matter local or remotely, or simply directly connect your PC and switch through an Ethernet cable. Before you activate the management function with the Switch, you have to read the instructions below carefully and do some proper setting to insure you can access the switch through your PC, then the switch devices will be replied or responded correctly as you wish.

1.3.1 out-of-band Terminal-mode Management

First, turn on your PC and execute with terminal mode program, such as, if you are in Microsoft Window environment, you may choose “super terminal “from programs that are listed for communication. Then follow the steps below:

Step 1: Set Hyper Terminal parameters on your PC

Bits Rate per second = 9600

Parity = None

Data Bits = 8

Stop Bit = 1

Flow Control = None

Step 2:

After setting the above on the PC, then connect your switch device with RS 232 cable, then type the “enter” key, then, the device will response the Main Menu to you and ask you answer the username and password. Then, Type the default value for the username and password to get further service, the default username is” admin” and default password “123 “. To know more about operation in this mode, please refer the instructions in chapter 4 of this manual to perform all function you want.

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