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 PCs 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.