5/26/05 Logging Into the CLI
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Use this procedure to configure a serial connection to your Cisco Wireless LAN Controller:
1. Connect your computer to the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller using the DB-9 null-modem serial
cable as shown in the following figure.
2. Verify that your terminal emulation (HyperTerminal, ProComm, minicom, tip, or other) inter-
face is configured with the following parameters:
-9600 baud
-8 data bits
-1 stop bit
-no parity
-no hardware flow control
3. In your terminal emulation program, open a session with the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller.
4. Press <RETURN>. The CLI returns a login prompt.
5. Enter a valid login and password to enter the CLI. (The default login and password are admin
and admin, respectively.)
User:
Password:
Note that the login and password functions are case sensitive.
6. The CLI displays the root level system prompt:
(system prompt)>
The CLI allows a default of five users to be logged in at a time, but this number can be set from
zero to five users.
The system prompt can be any alphanumeric string, up to 31 characters. Because this is a
user-defined variable, it is omitted from the rest of this documentation.
The CLI automatically logs you out without saving any changes after a short period of inactivity.
This automatic logout can be set from 0 (never log out), or from 1 to 160 minutes. (Use the CLI
command config serial timeout x, where x is a number between 0 and 160.)
You are now logged into the CLI.