Powering Up And Connecting The Cable For Ethernet Setup - Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Powering up and connecting the cable for Ethernet setup

1. Connect the power cord to the switch and plug in to a power source.
2. Connect an Ethernet cable from the Brocade switch to the LAN through an Ethernet hub or
3. Use the ping command to verify that your setup computer is connected to the LAN through an
4. Click Next.
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EZSwitchSetup attempts to discover or connect to the switch across the serial cable. If the
connection is successful, the Set Switch IP Address screen is displayed.
If your switch discovery fails, see
The switch power and status LEDs display amber and then change to green, which usually
takes from one to three minutes. See your switch hardware manual for the location of the
LEDs.
switch.
Figure 6 shows the cables connecting to the Brocade switch, setup computer, Ethernet hub or
switch, and network LAN.
NOTE
Not all switches have their Ethernet connectors in the same place as in
your hardware documentation to determine the correct placement of the Ethernet
connections.
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1 Brocade switch
2 Power cable
3 Ethernet hub or Ethernet switch
4 Ethernet cable from hub or switch to
LAN/WAN
FIGURE 6 Cable connections for a LAN setup
Ethernet hub or switch, and that it is on the same subnet as your Brocade switch.
Powering up and connecting cables to the switch
Table 2 on page 15 for details on how to recover your switch.
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IOIOI 0 1 2 3 8 9 10 11
4 5 6 7 12 13 14 15
C
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7
5 Setup computer
6 Ethernet cable going from hub or Ethernet switch to
Brocade switch
7 Ethernet cable going from setup computer to hub or
Ethernet switch
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Figure 6. Check with
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