Enterasys Networks 8000/8600 manual Installing the Hardware, Verifying Your Shipment

Installing the Hardware

Installing the Hardware

This section describes how to perform the following tasks:

•Check the shipping box to ensure that all the parts arrived

•Install the chassis (on a tabletop or in an equipment rack)

•Install the control module

•Install a memory upgrade

•Install the switching fabric module (X-Pedition 8600 only)

•Install line cards

•Install the power supply (either AC or DC)

•Attach console management cables

•Attach port cables

Verifying Your Shipment

Before you begin installing your X-Pedition, check your shipment to ensure that everything you ordered arrived securely.

Caution: To avoid back strain, be careful when lifting the chassis out of the shipping box.

Open the shipping box(es) and verify that you received the following equipment:

•An X-Pedition 8000 or X-Pedition 8600 chassis containing a backplane, fan module, and a console cable. The console cable is used for connecting a terminal to the control module DB-9 port.

•An X-Pedition 8000 or X-Pedition 8600 power supply.

•One country-specific power cable per power supply.

•One control module.

•One Switching Fabric Module (X-Pedition 8600 only).

•An X-Pedition Media Kit containing:

–One PCMCIA flash card containing the X-Pedition system software

–One copy of the Enterasys X-Pedition 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide (the book you are reading now)

–Release Notes

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