Establishing A First-Time Serial Connection - Broadcom Brocade G720 Hardware Installation Manual

G720-Install-IG101 Installation Guide

Establishing a First-Time Serial Connection

Perform the following steps to log on to the device through a serial connection.
1. Connect the mini USB of the console cable to the device and the RJ-45 of the cable to the RS-232 serial port on the
workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the serial cable and
insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
2. Disable any serial communication programs running on the workstation, such as synchronization programs.
3. Open a terminal emulator application, such as PuTTY, XShell, or SecureCRT on a Windows PC, or TERM, TIP, or C-
Kermit in a Linux environment, and configure the application as follows:
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In a Windows environment, use the following values:
Parameter
Bits per second
Data bits
Parity
Stop bits
Flow control
NOTE
Flow control is not supported on the serial connection when attached to a remote terminal and must be
disabled on the customer-side remote terminal server in addition to the host-side clients.
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In a UNIX environment using TIP, enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttyb -9600
If ttyb is already in use, use ttya instead and enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttya -9600
4. When the terminal emulator application stops reporting information, press Enter to display the login prompt.
Switch Console Login:
5. Log on to the device as admin, using the default password (password ). You are prompted to change the default user
name and password at initial logon. Make sure to write down the new credentials and keep this information in a secure
location.
Fabric OS (swDir)
swDir login: admin
Password:
Please change your passwords now.
Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed.
swDir:admin>
6. Modify the credentials. To cancel, press Ctrl+C .
NOTE
Initial passwords can be 8 to 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic character. They can
include numeric characters, the period (.), and the underscore (_) only. Passwords are case-sensitive, and
they are not displayed when you enter them on the command line.
Broadcom
9600
8
None
1
None (must be disabled on the host side)
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