200 Series Smart Switch Accessing

[joebucar52]

Hello,

We recently installed a 200 Smart Switch.  I changed the IP address to 192.168.210.2 and everything was working fine.  Everything is still working fine except that I now can not access the switch using the IP address.  I can not ping the address and when I scan the network all the other IP are accounted.  Is there any other way to get in the switch other than factory reset?

Thank You,

Joe 

[David Hornstein]

Hi Joe,

The two questions I could pose are;

• You said "I changed the IP address to 192.168.210.2 and everything was working fine. "  Could you get to the GUI of the switch after the change of IP address, and ;

• did you save the configuration changes?

If you are not aware and  have not already done so, new firmware came out for the 200 series in August , may have to factory reset the unit and perform a firmware upgrade if you are still at firmware 1.0 rather than version 1.1.

click here for Cisco 200 switch firmware

sorry, for these questions

regards Dave

[joebucar52]

Hello,

Thank You for the reply.  Yes I could get to the GUI with the new password.  I decided about a week or two later to get back in the switch and was not able.

Joe

[David Hornstein]

Hi Joe

But did you save the configuration.  Can you try the old IP address and old userid and password ?

I am guessing that maybe, being a new switch to you, you did not save the configuration and the switch was rebooted..maybe..just a guess.

regards Dave

[joebucar52]

Hello,

Apparently I did not save the configuration.  I come to find out that my server gave the switch a DHCP address.  Not sure why that happened.  I logged on with that IP address and then changed the IP address to what I wanted and then saved the configuration.

Thank You,

Joe