Manually Creating A Startup Configuration File Through The Serial Console Port; Passwords - Cisco ONS 15454 Software Feature And Configuration Manual

Chapter 3 Initial Configuration
the card can only be achieved via the console port. Users can manually set up the startup configuration
file through the serial console port and the Cisco IOS CLI configuration mode or load a Cisco IOS
supplied sample startup configuration file through CTC.
The ML-Series card does not allow users to access the read-only memory monitor mode (ROMMON).
Note
The ML-Series card ROMMON is preconfigured to boot the correct Cisco IOS software image for the
ML-Series card.
When the running configuration file is altered, a RUNCFG-SAVENEED condition appears in CTC. This
Note
condition is a reminder to enter a copy running-config startup-config command in the Cisco IOS CLI,
or the changes will be lost, when the ML-Series card reboots.

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 will save 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 IOS. It will then
either download the Cisco IOS software image from the TCC+/TCC2 or proceed 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.
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Passwords are configured in the next section,
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Enable password—The enable password is a non-encrypted 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.
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