Lab 4.1: Console Access Mini-Lab

Summary

During this lab we got our hands on real CISCO hardware and were able to tinker with the CLI.

Steps to Setup Computer

1. After connection to the console port open Device Manager

   1. Take now of the COM<Num> is. This will be used later in the PuTTY config

2. You want the setting to be the same as the table below

Variable	Value
Bits per sec	9600
Data bits	8
Parity	None
Stop bits	1
Flow Control	None

3. Now open PuTTY and navigator to Serial under SSH

Shows the PuTTY config

4. Now under Session Select the COM<Num> from earlier

Session Config

5. Click Open and if everything was setup properly you should be in the CISCO CLI

CISCO Steps to clear config

1. Say no if prompted to run setup wizard

2. Enter privileged mode enable

3. Enter the command write erase, which erases the NVRAM file system and removes all files.

4. At the prompt, confirm that you want to erase all files.

5. Enter command reload, and enter no when prompted whether to save the configuration. (Otherwise, the switch will reload the current running configuration.)

6. Confirm that you want to reload the switch, and your switch configuration is almost clean.

7. Upon reboot, say no if prompted to run setup wizard