Allied Telesis AT-S62 - Manual (Page 40)

Chapter 2: Starting a Local or Telnet Management Session
40 Section I: Basic Operations
Local Management Session
To establish a local management session, you connect a terminal or PC
with a terminal emulator program to the RS-232 terminal port on the
switch. The RS232 Terminal Port is located on the front panel of the
AT-8516F/SC, AT-8524M, and AT-8524POEswitches and the back panel
of the AT-8550GB and AT-8550SP switches.
A local management session is so named because you must be close to
the switch, usually within a few meters, to start this type of management
session, meaning you must be in the wiring closet where the switch is
located.
A switch does not need an IP address to be managed from a local
management session, and a local management session will not interfere
with the switch’s forwarding of packets.
Starting a local management session on a switch configured as a Master
switch allows you to manage all the switches in the same enhanced stack.
This relieves you of having to start a separate local management session
for each switch, simplifying network management.
Starting a local management session on a switch that is not part of an
enhanced stack or that is a slave switch allows you to manage just that
switch.
Note
For information on enhanced stacking, refer to “Enhanced Stacking
Overview” on page 80.