4. WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT

This section introduces the configuration and functions of the Web-Based management.

4.1 About Web-based Management

The switch offers management features that allow users to manage the switch from anywhere on the network through a standard browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The Web-Based Management supports Internet Explorer 5.0. It is based on Java Applets with an aim to reduce network bandwidth consumption, enhance access speed and present an easy viewing screen.

Note: By default, IE5.0 or later version does not allow Java Applets to open sockets. The user has to explicitly modify the browser setting to enable Java Applets to use network ports.

4.2 Preparing for Web Management

Before use web management, you can use console to login the Switch checking the default IP of the Switch. Please refer to Console Management Chapter for console login. If you need change IP address in first time, you can use console mode to modify it. The default value is as below:

IP Address: 192.168.0.100

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 192.168.0.254

User Name: admin

Password: admin

4.3 System Login

1.Launch the Internet Explorer.

2.Enter the IP address of the switch.

3.When the login screen appears, use admin/admin as the default username/password respectively to login.

4.The main web page of the Web-based management appears. As shows in the following screen.