Support Url; Help And The Management Server Url; Providing Online Help; If Online Help Fails To Operate - HP ProCurve series 2500 Management And Configuration Manual

Using the HP Web Browser Interface
Support/Mgmt URLs Feature

Support URL

This is the site that the switch accesses when you click on the Support tab on
the web browser interface. The default URL is:
which is the World Wide Web site for Hewlett-Packard's networking products.
Click on the [Support] button on that page and you can get to support information
regarding your switch, including white papers, operating system (OS) updates,
and more.
You could instead enter the URL for a local site that you use for entering
reports about network performance, or whatever other function you would
like to be able to easily access by clicking on the [Support] tab.

Help and the Management Server URL

This field specifies which of the following two locations the switch will use to
find online Help for the web browser interface:
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Providing Online Help. The Help files are automatically available if you
install HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches on your network or if you already
have Internet access to the World Wide Web. (The Help files are included with
HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches, and are also automatically available from
HP via the World Wide Web.)
Retrieval of the Help files is controlled by automatic entries to the Management
Server URL field on the Configuration / Support/Mgmt URLs screen, shown in
figure 4-6. The switch is shipped with the URL set to retrieve online Help from
the HP World Wide Web site. However, if HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches is
installed on a management station on your network and discovers the switch,
the Management Server URL is automatically changed to retrieve the Help
from your TopTools management station.
If Online Help Fails To Operate. Do one of the following:
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http://www.hp.com/go/procurve
The URL of online Help provided by HP on the world wide web
The URL of a network management station running HP TopTools for Hubs
& Switches
If HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches is installed and running on your
network, enter the IP address or DNS name of the network management
station in the Management Server URL field shown in figure 4-7 on page
4-15.