I have three PowerConnects 2748 where I was able the below in italics so I was able to manage the switches from my desk.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-switches/f/866/t/19353942
"An option is to externally loop back a vlan 1 access port to a vlan XX access port. This will allow you to manage the switch on any vlan. Of course this burns 2 ports, not just 1. But these switches are inexpensive, so you may have a hard time finding a less expensive solution just to avoid managing on vlan 1 or using the external loopback hack."
I tried to do the same exact thing on the x1052 but it wont work. Is there another way? I saw this post:
en.community.dell.com/.../19340218
but i didn't really understand what they meant. Any help here would be great. Thanks.