Setting Up Over The Network; Installing Online Help And Documentation - 3Com SuperStack II Manual

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Setting Up Over the
Network
Installing Online Help
and Documentation
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To manage a Switch using the web interface over an IP network:
1 You must set up the Switch with IP information. To do this:
a Access the web interface of the Switch through the console port. See
"Setting Up Through the Console Port"
b Use the Getting Started pages or IP Setup page to enter suitable IP
information for the Switch.
For more information about IP, see
Network" on page
Started pages, see
information about the IP Setup page, see
on page 58.
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.
3 Your management workstation must be connected to the Switch using a
port that is in VLAN 1 (the Default VLAN). By default, all ports on the
Switch are in VLAN 1. For more information about VLANs, see
LANs (VLANs)" on
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 provides information for units in the Switch
family, and is in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format.
The online documentation comprises:
This Management Guide
User Guides of all units in the Switch family
All the online documentation is in 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
"Managing a Switch Over the
38. For more information about the Getting
"The Getting Started Pages"
page 163.
on page 33.
on page 46. For more
"Setting Up IP Information"
"Virtual