Completing The Setup Program - Cisco Catalyst 2360 Hardware Installation Manual

Appendix C Configuring the Switch with the CLI-Based Setup Program
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Completing the Setup Program

The initial setup dialog appears at the console when you first press Enter. Follow these steps to complete
the setup program and to create an initial configuration for the switch:
Enter Yes at these two prompts.
Step 1
Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]: yes
At any point you may enter a question mark '?' for help.
Use ctrl-c to abort configuration dialog at any prompt.
Default settings are in square brackets '[]'.
Basic management setup configures only enough connectivity
for management of the system, extended setup will ask you
to configure each interface on the system.
Would you like to enter basic management setup? [yes/no]: yes
Step 2 Enter a host name for the switch, and press Return.
On a command switch, the host name is limited to 28 characters; on a member switch to 31 characters.
Do not use -n, where n is a number, as the last character in a host name for any switch.
Enter host name [Switch]: host_name
Step 3 Enter an enable secret password, and press Return.
The password can be from 1 to 25 alphanumeric characters, can start with a number, is case sensitive,
allows spaces, but ignores leading spaces. The secret password is encrypted, and the enable password is
in plain text.
Enter enable secret: secret_password
Enter an enable password, and press Return.
Step 4
Enter enable password: enable_password
Step 5 Enter a virtual terminal (Telnet) password, and press Return.
The password can be from 1 to 25 alphanumeric characters, is case sensitive, allows spaces, but ignores
leading spaces.
Enter virtual terminal password: terminal-password
Step 6 (Optional) Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) by responding to the prompts. You
can also configure SNMP later through the CLI, the device manager, or the Network Assistant
application. To configure SNMP later, enter no.
Configure SNMP Network Management? [no]: no
Enter the interface name (physical interface or VLAN name) of the connection to the management
Step 7
network, and press Return. For this release, always use vlan1 as that interface.
Enter interface name used to connect to the
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Default gateway (router)
Enable secret password
Enable password
Telnet password
Entering the Initial Configuration Information
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