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1. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the device and to an RS-232 serial port on the
workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the
serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
2. Disable any serial communication programs running on the workstation such as synchronization
programs.
3. Open a terminal emulator application such as PuTTY, XShell, or SecureCRT on a Windows PC, or TERM,
TIP, or C-Kermit in a LINUX environment, and configure the application as follows:
• In a Windows environment, use the following values:
Parameter
Bits per second
Databits
Parity
Stop bits
Flow control
Note: Flow control is not supported on the serial connection when attached to a remote terminal and
must be disabled on the customer-side remote terminal server in addition to the host-side clients.
• In a UNIX environment using TIP, enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttyb -9600.
If ttyb is already in use, use ttya instead and enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttya -9600
4. When the terminal emulator application stops reporting information, press Enter to display the login
prompt.
Switch Console Login:
5. Log in to the device as admin, using the default password: password. You are prompted to change
the default admin and user passwords at initial login. Make sure to write down the new passwords and
keep this information in a secure location.
Fabric OS (swDir)
swDir login: admin
Password:
Please change your passwords now.
Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed.
swDir:admin>
6. Modify passwords. To skip modifying the password, press Ctrl+C.
Note: Initial passwords can be 8 to 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic character.
They can include numeric characters, the period (.), and the underscore (_) only. Passwords are
case-sensitive, and they are not displayed when you enter them on the command line.
Configuring the IP address
You can configure the device with a static IP address, or you can use a Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP) server to set the IP address of the switch. DHCP is enabled by default. The device
supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Value
9600
8
None
1
None (must be disabled on the host side)
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