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Cisco ONS 15310-CL and Cisco ONS 15310-MA Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide R8.5
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Chapter 3 Initial Configuration of the ML-Series Card
Startup Configuration File
Manually Creating a Startup Configuration File Through the Serial Console Port
Configuration through the serial console port is familiar to those who have worked with other products
using Cisco IOS. At the end of the configuration procedure, the copy running-config startup-config
command saves a startup configuration file.
The serial console port gives the user visibility to the entire booting process of the ML-Series card.
During initialization the ML-Series card first checks for a locally, valid cached copy of Cisco IOS. It
then either downloads the Cisco IOS software image from the 15310-CL-CTX or the CTX 2500 or
proceeds directly to decompressing and initializing the image. Following Cisco IOS initialization the
CLI prompt appears, at which time the user can enter the Cisco IOS CLI configuration mode and setup
the basic ML-Series configuration.
Passwords
There are two types of passwords that you can configure for an ML-Series card: an enable password and
an enable secret password. For maximum security, make the enable password different from the enable
secret password.
• Enable password—The enable password is an unencrypted password. It can contain any number of
uppercase and lowercase alphanumeric characters. Give the enable password only to users permitted
to make configuration changes to the ML-Series card.
• Enable secret password—The enable secret password is a secure, encrypted password. By setting an
encrypted password, you can prevent unauthorized configuration changes. On systems running
Cisco IOS software, you must enter the enable secret password before you can access global
configuration mode.
An enable secret password can contain from 1 to 25 uppercase and lowercase alphanumeric
characters. The first character cannot be a number. Spaces are valid password characters. Leading
spaces are ignored; trailing spaces are recognized.
Passwords are configured in the “Configuring the Management Port” section on page 3-6.
Configuring the Management Port
Because there is no separate management port on ML-Series cards, any Fast Ethernet interface (0-7), or
any POS interface (0-1) can be configured as a management port.
You can remotely configure the ML-Series card through the management port, but first you must
configure an IP address so that the ML-Series card is reachable or load a startup configuration file. You
can manually configure the management port interface from the Cisco IOS CLI via the serial console
connection.
To configure Telnet for remote management access, perform the following procedure, beginning in user
EXEC mode:
Command Purpose
Step 1
Router> enable
Activates user EXEC (or enable) mode.
The # prompt indicates enable mode.
Step 2
Router# configure terminal
Activates global configuration mode. You can abbreviate
the command to config t. The Router(config)# prompt
indicates that you are in global configuration mode.