Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 40)

Chapter 2: Starting a Local or Telnet Management Session
40 Section I: Basic Features
Local Management Session
To establish a local management session, you use the terminal port on
the front panel of the AT-9400 Series switch.
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 that 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. You can start a local management session at any
time on any AT-9400 Series switch in your network.
When you start a local management session on 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 94.
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
FAULT
MASTER
POWER
STATUS
Gigabit Ethernet Switch
24
L/A
000 LINK / A
CT
GBIC