Using A Console Connection To Configure The Appliance; Before You Begin - Nokia IP500 Series Installation Manual

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Configuring the Appliance
Using a Console Connection to Configure the
Appliance
If you use a console connection (a direct serial connection to the console port)
to configure your IP system, you are prompted to enter configuration settings
the first time you turn on power to the appliance.
The first prompt asks you to supply a host name. If you wait more than
approximately 30 seconds before you type anything in response to the host
name prompt, the DHCP client program starts automatically, and the system
might be provided a host name and IP address that is unknown to you. This
could happen if a DHCP server on your network is configured to supply
configuration information to any system that requests it.
In this situation, you cannot connect to the IP system over the network,
because you do not know the IP address or host name of the IP system. To
resolve the problem, follow these steps.
1. Establish a console connection to the system.
2. Enter:
rm /config/active
or
mv /config/active /config/active.old
3. Reboot the IP system.
4. Respond to the configuration prompts in a timely manner.

Before You Begin

Before you begin to configure the appliance, do the following:
Choose a hostname for the appliance.
You can use any alphanumeric characters in upper or lower case (a to z,
0 to 9), dashes (–), and dots (.). The hostname is case sensitive. Every
time you enter the hostname you must do so in exactly the same way.
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