Specifications

10 AT-8700XL Series

C613-03064-00 REV E

Switch Start-up

This section outlines the log in and start-up procedures for your switch.

Although the switch will perform basic switching operations without being

configured, you will need to go through these log in and start-up procedures if

you wish to configure the switch and access its full switching capabilities.

To Log In

Using the supplied RS-232 DB9 straight-through cable, connect your

terminal or PC to the RS-232 Terminal Port on the switch’s front panel.

Set the communication parameters on your terminal or terminal emulation

program to:

• Baud rate: 9600

• Data bits: 8

•Parity: None

• Stop bits: 1

• Flow control: Hardware

See “Using Windows Terminal and Windows Hyperterminal” on page 37

for more information on configuring emulation software.

After the switch has booted, the log in prompt appears. If the log in prompt

doesn’t appear, press [Enter] two or three times.

When the switch boots for the first time it automatically creates an account

with manager privileges. The account has the log in name “manager” and

the password is “friend”.

At the log in prompt, enter the log in name and password.

Password: friend

The switch’s command prompt appears and you can now configure the

switch using the command line interface.

Change the password as soon as possible. Leaving the manager account with

the default password is a serious security risk. Make sure that you remember

the new password as there is no way to retrieve it if it is lost.

Use the following command to change the account password:

set password

See the AT-8700XL Series Software Reference for more information on

configuring the switch.

To access help files

Before help is used for the first time, the help files must be defined.

To define the files, enter:

set help=help-filename

where help-filename is the name of a help file stored in flash.