Setting Up Over The Network; Setting Up Snmp Management - 3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 4300 Getting Started Manual

Setting Up Over the
Network
Setting Up SNMP
Management
To manage a Switch using the command line interface over a network
using Telnet:
1 Set up the Switch with IP information. To do this:
a Access the command line interface of the Switch through the console
port. See "Setting Up Through the Console Port"
b Use the protocol ip basicConfig command to enter suitable
IP information for the Switch.
For more information about IP, see
Network" on page
2 If you are using a terminal emulator, check that you have an IP stack
correctly installed on the terminal emulator.
3 Check that your terminal or terminal emulator is connected to the Switch
using a port that is in VLAN 1. By default, all ports on the Switch are in
VLAN 1.
4 Open a Telnet session by specifying the IP address of the Switch. If you are
unsure how to do this, check the documentation supplied with the Telnet
facility.
Any network management application running the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage a Switch if:
The correct Management Information Bases (MIBs) are installed on the
management workstation, see
The management workstation is connected to the Switch using a port
in VLAN 1 (the Default VLAN). By default, all ports on the Switch are in
VLAN 1.
For information about using an SNMP network management application
to manage a Switch, see the documentation supplied with the software.
To manage your Switch using an SNMP network management
application, you need to specify SNMP community strings for the users
defined on the Switch. You can do this using the command line interface
— refer to the command line interface section of the "SuperStack 3 4300
Switch Management Interface Reference Guide" on the CD-ROM that is
supplied with the Switch.

Setting Up SNMP Management

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