Completing The Setup Program - Cisco Catalyst 2350 Installation Manual

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

Completing the Setup Program

The initial setup dialog appears at the console when you first press Enter.
Enter Yes at the following 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
Enter a host name for the switch, and press Return.
Step 2
The host name is limited to 63 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
Enter an enable secret password, and press Return.
Step 3
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
Enter a virtual terminal (Telnet) password, and press Return.
Step 5
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
(Optional) Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) by responding to the prompts. You
Step 6
can also configure SNMP later through the CLI, the device manager, Cisco Network Assistant, or the
CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution application. To configure SNMP later, enter no.
Configure SNMP Network Management? [no]: no
Enter the interface name (physical interface or VLAN name) of the interface that connects to the
Step 7
management network, and press Return. For this release, always use vlan1 as that interface.
Enter interface name used to connect to the
management network from the above interface summary: vlan1
Configure the interface by entering the switch IP address and subnet mask and pressing Return. The IP
Step 8
address and subnet masks shown are examples.
Configuring interface vlan1:
Configure IP on this interface? [yes]: yes
IP address for this interface: 10.4.120.106
Subnet mask for this interface [255.0.0.0]: 255.0.0.0
OL18479-01
Entering the Initial Configuration Information
Catalyst 2350 Switch Hardware Installation Guide
C-3