User Manual

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II-1. Preparation for Serial Console
Inside the product package, you can find an RS-232 console cable. Before managing your switch via out-of-band
management, please attach this cable’s RJ45 connector to your switch’s console port and its RS-232 female
connector to your PC’s COM port.
To access this switch’s out-of-band management CLI (Command Line Interface), your PC must have terminal
emulator software such as HyperTerminal or PuTTY installed. Some operating systems (such as Microsoft
Windows XP) have HyperTerminal already installed. If your PC does not have any terminal emulator software
installed, please download and install a terminal emulator software on your PC.
The following section will use HyperTerminal as an example.
1. Run HyperTerminal on your PC.
2. Give a name to the new console connection.
3. Choose the COM port that is connected to the switch.