Cisco Systems CSR 1000V manual Creating the Serial Console Access in KVM, Click on Add Hardware

Chapter 8 Booting the Cisco CSR 1000V and Accessing the Console

Accessing the Cisco CSR 1000V Console

Creating the Serial Console Access in KVM

Perform the following steps using the KVM console on your server. For more information, refer to the KVM documentation.

Step 1 Power off the VM.

Step 2 Click on Add Hardware.

Step 3 Select Serial to add a serial device.

Step 4 Under Character Device, choose the TCP Net Console (tcp) device type from the drop-down menu. Step 5 Under Device Parameters, choose the mode from the drop-down menu.

Step 6 Under Host, enter 0.0.0.0 so that the console accepts a Telnet connection from any host. Step 7 Choose the port from the drop-down menu.

Step 8 Choose the Use Telnet option.

Step 9 Click Finish.

You can now access the Cisco IOS XE console using the Telnet port URI. See the “Opening a Telnet Session to the Cisco CSR 1000V Console on the Virtual Serial Port” section on page 8-5.

Note To use these settings, the Serial Console option in the GRUB menu must have been selected while the Cisco CSR 1000V booted. If you have already installed the Cisco CSR 1000V software using the VM console, you must configure the Cisco IOS XE platform console serial command and reload the VM in order for the console access through the virtual serial port to work. See the “Changing the Console Port Access After Installation” section on page 8-6.

Creating the Serial Console Access in Microsoft Hyper-V

The console port access for Microsoft Hyper-V is created when configuring the VM settings. For more information, see the “Configuring the VM Settings” section on page 7-4.

Note Telnet access to the Cisco CSR 1000V console is not supported for Microsoft Hyper-V. You must use a Putty session to access the console.

Opening a Telnet Session to the Cisco CSR 1000V Console on the Virtual Serial Port

Perform the following steps using the Cisco IOS XE CLI commands:

Step 1 Open a Telnet session to the Cisco CSR 1000V console on the virtual serial port. In VMware ESXi and KVM environments, use the same address as configured for the Telnet Port URI.

telnet://host_ipaddress:portnumber

Step 2 At the Cisco CSR 1000V IOS XE password prompt, enter your login password. The following example shows entry of the password mypass:

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