SX1018HP Ethernet Managed Blade Switch User Guide for HP c-Class BladeSystems

SX1018HP Ethernet Managed Blade Switch HW User Manual Rev 1.0

Mellanox Technologies

3 Configuring the Switch the First Time

The procedures described in this chapter assume that you have already installed and powered-on

your switch according to the instructions in this document.

Step 1. If you are not already connected to the Onboard Administrator, connect to the Onboard Admin-

istrator of the Chassis using the serial port to your laptop. 

For more information see the http://www.hp.com/support/

BladeSystem_Onboard_Administrator_UG_en

Step 2. Connect to the HP Onboard Administrator and run “connect interconnect <slot number 1-7>”.

Step 3. Configure a serial terminal program (for example, HyperTerminal, minicom, or Tera Term) on

your host PC with the settings described in

Table 5.

Step 4. Login (from a serial terminal program) as admin and use admin as password. This starts the

Mellanox configuration wizard.

Step 5. Go through the Mellanox configuration wizard. Table 6 shows an example of a wizard session.

No remote IP connection is available at this stage.

Table 5 - Serial Terminal Program Configuration

Parameter Setting

Baud Rate 9600

Data bits 8

Stop bits 1

Parity None

Flow Control None

Table 6 - Configuration Wizard Session - DHCP (Sheet 1 of 2)Configuration (Example)

Wizard Session Display Comments

Mellanox configuration wizard

Do you want to use the wizard

for initial configuration? yes

You must perform this configuration the first time you

operate the switch or after resetting the switch. Type ‘y’

and then press <Enter>.

Step 1: Hostname? [switch] If you wish to accept the default hostname, then press

<Enter>. Otherwise, type a different hostname and press

<Enter>.