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Installing and Using HP Stack Manager
This chapter describes how to install and use the HP Stack Manager
software and lists the program’s basic and extended features.
The HP AdvanceStack hubs can be controlled from an ASCII terminal or
terminal emulation program but this requires that the hub (or one of the
hubs in the stack) have an HP Ethernet SNMP Module installed. See the
HP Ethernet SNMP Module manual for more information on using the
ASCII console.
Installing and Using
HP Stack Manager
Software Description
The HP Stack Manager is a Windows-based software application,
included with each HP AdvanceStack hub, that serves as the console for
the hubs. It is included with the hubs. It enables you to configure,
monitor, and diagnose your hub from a PC connected to the hub through
a direct serial link or a remote modem link. With the HP Stack Manager
software, you can also configure and monitor any HP AdvanceStack hub
that is “chained” to that hub via the Distributed Management Extension
(In/Out) ports.
(Connecting a hub to a console and “chaining” the hubs is described in
chapter 1, “Installing the HP AdvanceStack 10Base-T Hubs”.)
HP Stack Manager provides basic management functions for all the
HP AdvanceStack hubs. If a hub has an HP Ethernet SNMP Module
installed, the advanced features, described later in this chapter, are
available for that hub.
For extended management capabilities, HP Interconnect Manager is an
SNMP-compliant network management program that can manage HP
AdvanceStack hubs from any network management station on the
network.
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