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Cisco MGX 8220 Installation and Configuration
Release 5.0, Part Number 78-6430-03 Rev. D0, November 2003
Chapter
Setting-Up Management Connectivity to the Ci sco MGX 8220 Shelf
Setting-Up Management Connectivity to the Cisco MGX 8220 Shelf
This section describes how to set up the various user interface access paths.
•Setting-Up IP Addresses for Control Port, LAN Port, or In-Band Access, page 3-8
•Login Procedure, page 3-9
•Connecting Using the Maintenance Port, page 3-9
•Connecting Using the Control Port, page 3-10
•Connecting using an In-Band Connection, page 3-11
•Connecting using the LAN Port, page 3-11
Initiating commands to th e s h el f involves providing the correct user p ass w or d .

Setting-Up IP Addresses for Control Port, LAN Port, or In-Band Access

Before you can access Cisco MGX 8220 u sing th e contr ol por t, LAN po rt, or i n-band vi rtual c onnec tion,
you must configure IP addresses for each of these destinations on the ASC card. To configure IP
addresses, proceed as follows:
1. Establish a CLI connection to the shelf (either over the maintenance port or a port that has
previously been configured with an IP address).
2. At the login: prompt, enter your userID.
3. At the password: prompt, enter your password.
4. At the card number: prompt, enter the slot number (3 or 4) of the ASC card. For example,
card number:3
The following prompt appears:
nodeName.shelf#.slot#.cardType.cardStatus>
5. At this prompt, enter the cnfifip com man d to confi gur e th e contr o l por t, LA N por t or in-b an d p ort
IP address.
The cnfifip command is entered in the fo ll owi ng f o rm at:
cnfifip -ip ip address -if interface type -msk subnet mask address -bc <broadcast
address>
ip address specifies an IP address for the destination port in dotted decimal format
interface type •28 for the control port
•37 for the in-band port
•26 for the LAN port
subnet mask address specifies the mask address in h exa decimal format
broadcast address specifies the broadcast address in hexadecimal format