Summary Of Configuration Procedures; Initial Node Configuration Summary - Cisco BPX 8620 Installation And Configuration Manual

Summary of Configuration Procedures

Summary of Configuration Procedures
This section summarizes the configuration steps as an overview to the procedures in the following
chapters.
For a description of the commands used to operate a BPX switch, refer to the Cisco WAN Switching
Command Reference.
For node installation and operation, refer to the applicable reference publications: Cisco IGX 8400 Series
Reference and Cisco MGX 8220 Reference.

Initial Node Configuration Summary

This section is an overview of adding nodes and trunks by using the command line interface.
As a minimum, you should configure the nodes, as applicable, by using:
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You may add connections now or later, after configuring the nodes for operation with the Cisco WAN
Manager NMS manager.
If you are naming the node after a city or place that contains more than eight characters, you will have
to abbreviate the name to create a valid network node name. The name must be unique across the
network.
The following are the basic tasks to configure a BPX switch:
1.
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name (cnfname)
date (cnfdate)
time (cnftime)
timezone (cnftmzn)
trunks upped (uptrk)
trunks added (addtrk or addshelf)
Set up the node.
Configure the node name (cnfname)
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Before you can add a node to the network, you must assign it a unique node name.
All nodes initially have the default name NODENAME. The node name consists of one to eight
printable characters (beginning with a letter), and cannot contain spaces. This new name is
distributed automatically to other nodes in the network. For example, to assign the node the
name of alpha, enter:
cnfname alpha
b. Configure the time zone (cnftmzn)
Each node must have a time zone. To set the time zone for the node to Greenwich Mean Time,
for example, enter:
cnftmzn GMT
c. Configure date (cnfdate)
Configure time (cnftime)
d.
Chapter 17 Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration
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