User guide

Who Should Read this Manual? About This Guide
page x OmniSwitch 6800 Series Hardware Users Guide June 2007
Who Should Read this Manual?
The audience for this users guide is network administrators and IT support personnel who need to
configure, maintain, and monitor switches and routers in a live network. However, anyone wishing to gain
knowledge on the OmniSwitch 6800 Series hardware will benefit from the material in this guide.
When Should I Read this Manual?
Read this guide as soon as you are ready to familiarize yourself with your switch hardware components.
You should have already stepped through the first login procedures and read the brief hardware overviews
in the OmniSwitch 6800 Series Getting Started Guide.
You should already be familiar with the very basics of the switch hardware, such as module LEDs and
module installation procedures. This manual will help you understand your switch hardware components
(e.g., chassis, stacking ports and cables, backup power supplies, etc.) in greater depth.
What is in this Manual?
This users guide includes the following hardware-related information:
• Descriptions of stand-alone and stacked configurations.
• Descriptions of “availability” features.
• Descriptions of chassis types (OS6800-24 and OS6800-48).
• Instructions for mounting the chassis.
• Descriptions of hardware components (status LEDs, chassis, stacking ports and cables, backup power
supplies, etc.).
• Managing a stand-alone chassis.
• Setting up stacks.
• Managing stacks.
• Hardware-related Command Line Interface (CLI) commands.
What is Not in this Manual?
The descriptive and procedural information in this manual focuses on switch hardware. It includes
information on some CLI commands that pertain directly to hardware configuration, but it is not intended
as a software users guide. There are several OmniSwitch 6800 Series users guides that focus on switch
software configuration. Consult those guides for detailed information and examples for configuring your
switch software to operate in a live network environment. See “Documentation Roadmap” on page -xi and
“Related Documentation” on page -xiii for further information on software configuration guides available
for your switch.