Allied Telesis AT-S62 - Manual (Page 37)

AT-S62 Menus Interface User’s Guide
Section I: Basic Operations 37
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. This means 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. 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 45.