Document Outline

• Title Page
• Preface
  • Audience
  • Conventions
    • GUI conventions
    • Symbols
  • About the H3C WX3024E documentation set
  • Obtaining documentation
  • Technical support
  • Documentation feedback
• Contents
• Product overview
  • Overview
  • Power supply
    • AC power supply
    • DC power supply
  • PoE power supply
  • Fans
• Preparing for installation
  • Safety recommendations
    • General safety recommendations
    • Safety with electricity
    • Safety with switch moving
    • ESD prevention
    • Safety with laser
  • Examining the installation site
    • Weight support
    • Temperature/humidity
    • Cleanness
    • Grounding
    • Power supply
    • Space
    • EMI
  • Installation tools
• Installing the switch
  • Installing the switch in a 19-inch rack
    • Mounting brackets
    • Slide rails
    • Installing the switch by using front and rear mounting brackets
    • Installing the switch by using front mounting brackets and a rack shelf
    • Installing the switch by using front mounting brackets and slide rails
  • Mounting the switch on a workbench
  • Grounding the switch
    • Grounding the switch with a grounding strip (recommended)
    • Grounding the switch with a grounding conductor buried in the earth ground
    • Grounding the switch through the PE wire of an AC power cord
  • Connecting the power cord
    • Connecting an AC power cord to the switch
    • Connecting the switch to an RPS
  • Connecting the interface cables
    • Connecting the console cable
    • Connecting the Ethernet cables
      • Connecting a copper Ethernet port
      • Connecting a fiber Ethernet port
  • Installing/removing an interface card
    • Installing an XFP interface card
    • Removing an XFP interface card
  • Verifying the installation
• Starting and configuring the switch
  • Setting up a configuration environment
    • Connecting the switch to a configuration terminal
    • Setting terminal parameters
  • Powering on the switch
    • Verification before power-on
    • Boot process
• Troubleshooting
  • Power supply failure
  • Configuration terminal problems
    • No terminal display
    • Garbled terminal display
  • Software loading failure
• Appendix A Technical specifications
  • Fixed ports
    • Console port
    • Ethernet ports
      • Ethernet ports
      • RJ-45 connectors
      • LC connectors
  • LEDs
  • Numbering interfaces
• Appendix B Transceiver module specifications
  • GE SFP transceiver modules
  • XFP transceiver modules
• Appendix C Installing a lightning arrester for a network interface
  • Tools
  • Installation procedure
  • Precautions
• Appendix D Installing a lightning arrester for AC power
• Appendix E Maintaining software
  • Files managed by the switch
    • BootWare image file
    • System software image files
    • Configuration files
    • Approaches for software maintenance
  • Upgrading a system software image file through the web interface
    • Setting up a web configuration environment
    • Upgrading the software
  • BootWare menus
    • BootWare main menu
  • BootWare submenus
    • Serial submenu
    • Ethernet submenu
    • File control submenu
    • BootWare operation submenu
    • Storage device operation submenu
  • Upgrading the software through a serial connection by using XMODEM
    • Modifying serial communication parameters
    • Upgrading a system software image file through a serial connection
  • Upgrading a system software image file through an Ethernet port by using TFTP
    • Upgrading a system software image file by using TFTP through the BootWare menu
      • Setting up an upgrade environment
      • Configuring the Ethernet port parameters
      • Upgrading a system software image file
      • Finalizing system software image file upgrade
    • Upgrading and backing up a system software image file by using TFTP at the CLI
      • Setting up an upgrade environment
      • Backing up and restoring system software image files and configuration files
  • Upgrading a system software image file through an Ethernet port by using FTP
    • Upgrading a system software image file by using FTP through the BootWare menu
      • Setting up an upgrade environment
    • Upgrading and backing up a system software image file by using FTP at the CLI
      • With the switch as an FTP client and the PC as an FTP server
      • With the switch as an FTP server and the PC as an FTP client
  • Maintaining the system software image files and configuration files
    • Displaying all files
      • Displaying all files through the BootWare menu
      • Displaying all files at the CLI
    • Setting the system software image file type
      • Setting the system software image file type in the BootWare menu
      • Setting the system software image file type at the CLI
    • Deleting a file
      • Deleting a file through the BootWare menu
      • Deleting a file at the CLI
  • Dealing with password loss
    • BootWare password loss
    • User password loss
    • Super password loss
  • Backing up and restoring BootWare
    • Backing up and restoring BootWare through the BootWare menu
      • Backing up BootWare
      • Restoring BootWare
    • Backing up and restoring BootWare at the CLI
      • Backing up BootWare
      • Restoring BootWare
• Index