Installation guide

Alpine 3800 Series Switch Hardware Installation Guide 1-9
A
LPINE
3800 S
ERIES
S
WITCH
C
OMPONENTS
S
WITCH
M
ANAGEMENT
M
ODULE
The Switch Management Module (SMMi) is responsible for upper-layer protocol
processing and switch management functions. The SMMi can store two ExtremeWare
software images (version 6.0 or greater) and two switch configurations.
Figure 1-3 shows the SMMi.
Figure 1-3: Switch Management Module (SMMi)
The SMMi has the following out-of-band management ports:
• Console port (used to connect a terminal and perform local management)
• 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet port
• Modem port (used to connect a modem for remote access to the CLI)
• PCMCIA slot (not used for normal operation)
38_SMMi
Module status
LEDs
Module
reset
Console
port
Modem
port
Management
port
PCMCIA slot