Chapter 2: Installation and Configuration

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For cable and adaptor information, see Device Cabling on page 77. You may also use any terminal emulation program that is available on your system.

2.Configure your terminal or terminal emulation program as follows.

Baud rate

9600

Bits per character

8

Stop bits

1

Flow control

None

3.Press the Return or Enter key until a prompt appears, requesting your username. If you do not receive a prompt after pressing the key five times, check your cable and serial settings to be sure that they are correct.

4.Proceed to Initial CPS appliance login on page 9.

After you complete the CPS appliance configuration, you may reconfigure the CLI on another port or disable it completely and use port 1 with an attached device. For more information, see Connecting to devices from the serial CLI port on page 14.

Initial CPS appliance login

The CPS appliance ships with a single user defined in its user database. This predefined user has the name Admin, no password and has the Appliance Administrator access level. The first time you connect to the CPS network appliance, you are prompted for a username.

To log in to the CPS appliance for the first time:

1.At the Username prompt, type Admin. There is no factory default password for the Admin user. At the Password prompt, press Return.

Avocent CPS16xx S/W Version x.x (ASCII) Username: Admin

Password: Authentication Complete

CPS configuration is required.

2.Once authentication completes, the CPS appliance prompts for any missing configuration val- ues that are required for operation.

If you already provided the IP address, subnet mask and gateway, you will not be prompted for those values again.

If you have not already provided the network information, you will be prompted for them. Enter the addresses using standard dot notation.

CPS configuration is required Enter CPS IP address > 192.168.0.5 Enter CPS Subnet mask > 255.255.255.0 Enter CPS Gateway address > 0.0.0.0

3.You are prompted for a new Admin password. Passwords are case sensitive and must contain 3-16 alphanumeric characters. You must enter the new password twice to confirm that you entered it correctly.