Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 44)

Chapter 2: Starting a Management Session
44 Section I: Basic Operations
Starting a Local Management Session
To establish a local connection, you use the terminal port on the front
panel of the AT-9400 Series switch, as explained in “Local Connection” on
page 36. When you make the connection and start the AT-S63 menus
interface, you start a local management session.
A switch does not need an IP address to be managed through a local
management session.
When you make a local connection to a switch that has been configured
as a master switch of an enhanced stack, you can manage all the
switches that support enhanced stacking in the subnet from the same
local management session. Therefore, you do not need to start a separate
local management session for each switch.
When you start a local management session on a switch that is not part of
an enhanced stack or that is a slave switch, you can only manage that
switch.
Note
For information on enhanced stacking, refer to “Enhanced Stacking
Overview” on page 84.
Starting a Local
Management
Session
To start a local management session, perform the following procedure:
1. Connect one end of the RJ-45 to RS-232 management cable to the
serial terminal port on the front panel of the switch, as shown in
Figure 1.
Figure 1. Connecting the Management Cable to the RJ-45 Serial Terminal
Port
2. Connect the other end of the cable to an RS-232 port on a terminal or
PC with a terminal emulator program.
FAULT
MASTER
POWER
STATUS
Gigabit Ethernet Switch
24
L/A
000 LINK / A
CT
GBIC