Setting The Initial Ip Address In A Command Line - IBM eServer xSeries 135 Installation Manual

Notes:
a. The user name and password fields are case sensitive.
b. The user name and password are different from the root user.
5. Click Next.
6. In the ASM Configuration window, change the password for the root user.
a. Type a new password.
b. Type the password again.
c. Click Next. The ASM Configuration-Set Networking Parameters window
appears. Type the information for the following required fields and then click
Next:
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d. Click Next to make the changes take effect. A Machine rebooting message
appears. If the page does not load by itself in five minutes, click Refresh.
7. When prompted, type user name administrator and password password. In the
ASM Main Page, you can now perform additional configuration tasks.
8. Create HTML files for your Web site on your own computer. See "Putting the
initial Web page on the appliance" on page 16 for more information.
a. Use a file transfer protocol (FTP) command or program to store the file on the
appliance server hard disk drive using userid webroot and password
password. See the documentation that applies to the FTP tool that you are
using for detailed instructions.
b. Name the file index.html.
9. Go to http://appliance_IP_address to verify your IP address and to view your
new Web page.
See the Appliance System Manager Administration Guide for information about
additional configuration tasks.

Setting the initial IP address in a command line

A command line script is provided if a locally attached browser is not accessible. To
use this method of assigning the initial IP address, do the following:
1. Turn off the appliance server.
2. Attach a C2T device breakout cable to the appliance server Out connector. See
"Using the C2T device breakout cable" on page 6 for details.
3. Attach a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the C2T device breakout cable, or
attach a serial terminal (VT100) to the serial port.
4. Turn on the appliance server.
5. Log in to the appliance server as the user root with the password password.
6. Type /opt/CSM/scripts/setup.pl and press Enter.
7. Respond to the questions as prompted.
8. Type Y and press Enter to restart the appliance when prompted.
Host Name
Domain Name
Gateway
IP Address (the IP address is already displayed, but you can change it to
a different address)
Netmask
Primary DNS Server (optional)
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