Cisco Systems 7200 VXR manual Starting the System and Observing Initial Conditions

Chapter 4 Observing System Startup and Performing a Basic Configuration

Starting the System and Observing Initial Conditions

•All network interface cables are connected to the port adapters.

•A CompactFlash Disk, Flash Disk or Flash memory card is installed in its slot.

•Each power cable is connected and secured with the cable-retention clip.

•The console terminal is turned on.

You are now ready to start your router. Proceed to the section “Starting the System and Observing Initial Conditions.”

Starting the System and Observing Initial Conditions

After installing your Cisco 7200 VXR router and connecting cables, start the router as follows:

Step 1 At the rear of the router, place the power switch on the power supply in the on () position. Repeat this if a second power supply is installed. The green OK LED on the power supply turns on.

Note When powering on or power off the router, wait 30 seconds before powering it on or powering it off again.

Step 2 Listen for the fans; you should immediately hear them operating.

Step 3 During the boot process, observe the system LEDs. The LEDs on most of the port adapters go on and off in irregular sequence. If the Port Adapter Jacket Card is installed, observe its LEDs. Some may go on, go out, and go on again for a short time. On the I/O controller, the IO power OK LED comes on immediately.

Step 4 Observe the initialization process. When the system boot is complete (a few seconds), the network processing engine or network services engine begins to initialize the port adapters and the I/O controller. During this initialization, the LEDs on each port adapter behave differently (most flash on and off).

The enabled LED on each port adapter goes on when initialization is completed, and the console screen displays a script and system banner similar to the following:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-JS-M), Released Version 12.0(19980705:021501)Copyright(c) 1986-1998 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Tue 25-Aug-98 14:38 by xxxxx

Image text-base: 0x600088C4, data-base: 0x60FA6000

Step 5 When you start up the router for the first time, the system automatically enters the setup facility, which determines which port adapters are installed and prompts you for configuration information for each one. On the console terminal, after the system displays the system banner and hardware configuration, you will see the following System Configuration Dialog prompt:

--- System Configuration Dialog ---

At any point you may enter a questions mark ‘?’ for help.

Use ctrl-c to abort configuration dialog at any prompt.

Default settings are in square brackets ‘[]’.

continue with configuration dialog? [yes]:

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