Connecting To The Console Port With Microsoft Windows; Connecting To The Console Port With Mac Os X - Cisco ASR 5000 Application Detection and Control Administration Guide Hardware Installation Manual

Connecting to the Console Port with Microsoft Windows

On many Cisco routers, you can enter Ctrl-C to interrupt the router startup process and then delete or
change the admin password, or view or delete the router configuration.
To prevent unauthorized access to the router configurations and passwords, the Ctrl-C command is
Note
disabled on the router while it is booting up and loading the system software.
Connecting to the Console Port with Microsoft Windows
This section describes how to connect to the router console port using Microsoft Windows.
Start a terminal emulator application, such as Windows HyperTerminal (included with some versions of
Step 1
Windows OS) or PuTTY:
Configure the terminal emulation software with the parameters described in
Step 2
page
Step 3 Connect to the router.

Connecting to the Console Port with Mac OS X

This procedure describes how to connect a Mac OS X system USB port to the console using the built-in
OS X Terminal utility.
Step 1 Use the Finder to go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
Step 2 Connect the OS X USB port to the router.
Step 3 Enter the following commands to find the OS X USB port number:
macbook:user$ cd /dev
macbook:user$ ls -ltr /dev/*usb*
crw-rw-rw-
DT-macbook:dev user$
Connect to the USB port with the following command followed by the router USB port speed:
Step 4
macbook:user$ screen /dev/tty.usbmodem1a21 9600
To Disconnect the OS X USB Console from the Terminal Window
Enter Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+\
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