Cisco Systems 3750E manual Enabling the Cisco IOS CNS Agent, Enabling an Initial Configuration

Chapter 4 Configuring Cisco IOS CNS Agents

Configuring Cisco IOS Agents

Enabling the Cisco IOS CNS Agent

After enabling the CNS event agent, start the Cisco IOS CNS agent on the switch. You can enable the Cisco IOS agent with these commands:

•The cns config initial global configuration command enables the Cisco IOS agent and initiates an initial configuration on the switch.

•The cns config partial global configuration command enables the Cisco IOS agent and initiates a partial configuration on the switch. You can then use the Configuration Engine to remotely send incremental configurations to the switch.

Enabling an Initial Configuration

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable the CNS configuration agent and initiate an initial configuration on the switch:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
	configure terminal	Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
	cns config connect-intf interface-prefix	Enter the connect-interface-config submode, and specify
	[ping-interval seconds] [retries num]	the interface for connecting to the Configuration Engine.
		• Enter the interface-prefixfor the connecting interface.
		You must specify the interface type but need not
		specify the interface number.
		• (Optional) For ping-intervalseconds, enter the
		interval between successive ping attempts. The range
		is 1 to 30 seconds. The default is 10 seconds.
		• (Optional) For retries num, enter the number of ping
		retries. The range is 1 to 30. The default is 5.
Step 3
	config-cli	Enter config-clito connect to the Configuration Engine
	or	through the interface defined in cns config connect-intf.
	line-cli	Enter line-clito connect to the Configuration Engine
		through modem dialup lines.
		Note The config-cliinterface configuration command
		accepts the special character & that acts as a
		placeholder for the interface name. When the
		configuration is applied, the & is replaced with the
		interface name. For example, to connect through
		FastEthernet0/1, the command config-cli ip
		route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 & generates the command
		ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/1.
Step 4
	exit	Return to global configuration mode.
Step 5
	hostname name	Enter the hostname for the switch.
Step 6
	ip route network-number	Establish a static route to the Configuration Engine whose
		IP address is network-number.

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