Brocade EZSwitchSetup Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 and Brocade 200E, 3250, 4100, 4900, 5000 (53-1000441-01, June 2007)

8 EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide
53-1000441-01
Power Up and Connect Cables to the Switch
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3. Connect the serial cable from the switch to your setup computer.
The serial cable used is not a null modem cable. If you cannot locate the serial cable that came
with the switch, use a female-to-female, DB9 connector with the pins 2, 3, and 5. The serial
connection settings are:
- Bits per second: 9600
- Databits: 8
- Parity: none
- Stop bits: 1
- Flow control: none
Figure 5 shows the cables connecting to switch, setup computer, hub, and network when
setting up your switch using a DHCP server located in your network environment. If you choose
to use your DHCP server to set up the switch, you do not need to connect a serial cable (4) from
the setup computer to the switch.
NOTE
Not all switches have their serial and ethernet connectors in the same place as in Figure 5.
Check with your hardware documentation to determine the correct placement of the serial and
ethernet connections.
FIGURE 5 Cable connections
4. Verify by using the ping command that your setup computer is connected to the LAN through an
ethernet hub and on the same subnet as your switch.
5. Click Next.
EZSwitchSetup attempts to connect to the switch across the serial cable. The Set Up Switch IP
screen is displayed if the connection is successful.
If your switch discovery fails, see Figure 12 on page 15 for details on how to recover your
switch.
1 Power cable 5 Ethernet cable from setup computer to hub
2 Ethernet hub 6 Ethernet cable from hub to LAN/WAN (DHCP)
3 Ethernet cable from hub to switch 7 Setup computer
4 Serial cable 8 Brocade switch