Installing The Hardware - Enterasys Xpedition 8000 Getting Started Manual

Installing the Hardware

This section describes how to perform the following tasks:
• Check the shipping box to ensure that all the parts arrived
• Install the chassis (on a tabletop or in an equipment rack)
• Install the control module
• Install a memory upgrade
• Install the switching fabric module (XP-8600 only)
• Install line cards
• Install the power supply (either AC or DC)
• Attach console management cables
• Attach port cables
Verifying Your Shipment
Before you begin installing your XP, check your shipment to ensure that everything you
ordered arrived securely.
: To avoid back strain, be careful when lifting the chassis out of the shipping box.
Caution
Open the shipping box(es) and verify that you received the following equipment:
• An XP-8000 or XP-8600 chassis containing a backplane, fan module, and a console
cable. The console cable is used for connecting a terminal to the control module DB-9
port.
• An XP-8000 or XP-8600 power supply.
• One country-specific power cable per power supply.
• One control module.
• One Switching Fabric Module (XP-8600 only).
• An XP Media Kit containing:
– One PC flash card containing the XP system software
– One copy of the Enterasys Xpedition 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide (the book you
are reading now)
– Release Notes
Enterasys Xpedition 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide
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