Asante Technologies 6200 - Manual (Page 43)

Setting Up For Management
Page 4-2
IntraSwitch Management
Overview
The IntraSwitch 6216M and 6224 and any installed Asanté MII
Modules can be managed using any of the following methods:
Table 4-1 Management Options
This chapter describes how to connect to the IntraSwitch using
either out-of-band or in-band management, as illustrated in
Figure 4-1.
For information on each management method, see the follow-
ing:
❏ Console or Telnet management — see Chapter
5, Console Management.
❏ HTTP Server management — see Web Browser
Management, Chapter 8
❏ SNMP-based network management software — see
SNMP-Based Management Software on page 4-6.
Method Type Description
Console out-of-band
management
local connection to the
IntraSwitch via the Console port
Telnet
(four sessions
maximum)
in-band
management
remote connection over the
network to the IntraSwitch via
Telnet session
HTTP Server in-band
management
remote connection to the
IntraSwitch via a Web browser
SNMP-Based
Network
Management
Software
in-band
management
remote connection to the
IntraSwitch via any SNMP-based
network management application
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