Over The Network; Installing Online Help And Documentation - IBM 8271 Nways F12 User Manual

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Over the Network

Installing Online Help
and Documentation
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To manage the stack using the web interface over an IP network:
1 You must set up the stack with IP information. To do this:
a Access the web interface of the stack through a console port. See
"Through the Console Port" on page 3-3.
b Use the Getting Started pages or IP Setup page to enter suitable IP
information for the Switch.
For more information about IP, see "Managing the Stack Over the
Network" on page 3-7. For more information about the Getting
Started pages, see "About The Getting Started Pages"on page 4-4.
For more information about the IP Setup page, see "Setting Up IP
Information for the Switch"on page 4-15.
2 You must have an IP stack correctly installed on your management
workstation. You can check this by trying to browse the World Wide
Web; if you can browse, an IP stack is installed.
The CD-ROM supplied with your Switch contains online help and online
documentation that can be used with the web interface:
The online help system is in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
format.
The online documentation is an online version of this User Guide in
two formats, HTML and PDF (Portable Document Format).
To set up the online help and documentation:
1 Decide where the files are to be stored:
On a local drive of your management workstation (recommended)
On the CD-ROM, inserted into the CD-ROM drive of your
management workstation
On a network server
On the CD-ROM, inserted into the CD-ROM drive of a networked
CD-ROM server
On a Web server
If several users are using the web interface, we recommend that you
copy the files onto a server, or insert the CD-ROM into a networked
CD-ROM server.
2 If the files are to be accessed from the CD-ROM, insert the CD-ROM
into the relevant CD-ROM drive.