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
After connection to the console port open
Device Manager
Take now of the COM<Num> is. This will be used later in the PuTTY config
You want the setting to be the same as the table below
3. Now open PuTTY and navigator to Serial
under SSH
4. Now under Session Select the COM<Num> from earlier
5. Click Open
and if everything was setup properly you should be in the CISCO CLI
CISCO Steps to clear config
Say
no
if prompted to run setup wizardEnter privileged mode
enable
Enter the command
write erase
, which erases the NVRAM file system and removes all files.At the prompt, confirm that you want to erase all files.
Enter command
reload
, and enterno
when prompted whether to save the configuration. (Otherwise, the switch will reload the current running configuration.)Confirm that you want to reload the switch, and your switch configuration is almost clean.
Upon reboot, say
no
if prompted to run setup wizard
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