Passwords; Configuring The Management Port - Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Configuration Manual

Manually Creating a Startup Configuration File Through the Serial Console Port

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

Configuring the Management Port

Because there is no separate management port on ML-Series cards, any Fast Ethernet interface (0 to 11
on the ML100T-12 card and 0 to 7 on the ML100X-8), any Gigabit Ethernet interface (0 to 1 on the
ML1000-2 card), or any POS interface (0 to 1 on any ML-Series card) can be configured as a
management port. For the packet over SONET (POS) interface to exist, a synchronous transport signal
(STS) or synchronous transport module (STM) circuit must first be created through CTC or translation
language 1 (TL1).
You can remotely configure the ML-Series card through the management port, but first you must
configure an IP address so that the ML-Series card is reachable or load a startup configuration file. You
can manually configure the management port interface from the Cisco IOS CLI through the serial
console connection.
To configure Telnet for remote management access, perform the following procedure, beginning in user
EXEC mode:
Command
Step 1
Router> enable
Router#
Step 2
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)#
Step 3
Router(config)# enable password
password
Step 4
Router(config)# enable secret password
Step 5
Router(config)# interface type number
Router(config-if)#
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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.
"Configuring the Management Port" section on page
Purpose
Activates user EXEC (or enable) mode.
The # prompt indicates enable mode.
Activates global configuration mode. You can abbreviate
the command to config t. The Router(config)# prompt
indicates that you are in global configuration mode.
Sets the enable password. See the
on page 3-8.
Allows you to set an enable secret password. See the
"Passwords" section on page
enable secret password to gain access to global
configuration mode.
Activates interface configuration mode on the interface.
Chapter 3 Initial Configuration
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"Passwords" section
3-8. A user must enter the