Checking the VIP Installation

Versatile Interface Processor Functions

Checking the Installation and Verifying VIP Status

You can use the conﬁgure command to conﬁgure a VIP interface. To use the conﬁgure command, enter the privileged level of the EXEC command interpreter with the enable command. The system will prompt you for a password if one has been set.

The system prompt for the privileged level ends with a pound sign (#) instead of an angle bracket

(>). At the console terminal, enter the privileged level as follows:

Step 1 At the user-level EXEC prompt, enter the enable command. The EXEC prompts you for a privileged-level password, as follows:

Router> enable

Password:

Step 2 Enter the password (the password is case sensitive). For security purposes, the password is not displayed on your console.

Step 3 When you enter the correct password and press Return, the system displays the privileged-mode system prompt (#) as follows:

Router#

After you install the VIP and connect cables (using connection procedures in the respective port adapter subsections), verify the installation by observing the LED states and the console display. When the system has reinitialized all interfaces, the enabled LED on the VIP and on all interface processors should go on. One or the other of the MII and RJ-45 LEDs should be on, depending on your connection, and the link LED should be on if the VIP is receiving a carrier signal from the network.

The console screen will also display a message as the system discovers each interface during its reinitialization.

When you remove and replace interface processors, the system provides status messages on the console screen. The messages are for information only.

The following sample display shows the events logged by the system as a serial-equipped VIP was removed from slot 2; the system then reinitialized the remaining interface processors and marked as down the serial interfaces on the VIP that was removed from slot 2. When the VIP is reinserted, the system automatically brings up the interfaces that were up when the VIP was removed.

Router#

%OIR-6-REMCARD: Card removed from slot 2, interfaces disabled

%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial2/1/0, changed state to administratively down

%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial2/1/1, changed state to administratively down

Router#

%OIR-6-INSCARD: Card inserted in slot 2, interfaces administratively shut down

%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial2/1/0, changed state to up

%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial2/1/1, changed state to up

Note When a new VIP is inserted or when a VIP is moved to a new slot, the system recognizes the new interfaces, but leaves them in a shutdown state until you conﬁgure them and change their state to up with the conﬁgure command.

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