Chapter 2: Setting Up the Switch

Overview

The following information and procedures that are provided in this chapter are common to both layer 2 and layer 3 module:

• Setting Up Your Laptop or PC
• Performing Initial Setup of the Switch
• Using Telnet to Manage the Switch
• Using the Web Agent to Configure the Switch
• Configuring Custom Access Types
• Configuring User Accounts
• Changing the Console Serial Port Settings
• Configuring Dial-Up Networking
• Changing the TCP Ports for HTTP and Telnet
• Managing Configuration Files

Note: The last step in each procedure tells you to Click APPLY to save the setup or changes that you made. This step saves the setup or any changes to the running configuration only. The startup configuration is not changed. Therefore, these and other changes will be lost if the switch goes down or if you turn it off.

To save any changes to the startup configuration, you must copy the running configuration to the startup configuration. For information on how to perform this task, see "Copying Configuration Files" later in this chapter.

For more information about the CLI commands that are mentioned in this chapter, see Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, Software Version 6.2.