Hardware Installation - Cisco ONS 15454 Software Feature And Configuration Manual

Initial Configuration
This chapter describes the initial configuration of the ML-Series card and contains the following major
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Hardware Installation

This section lists hardware installation tasks, including booting up the ML-Series card. Because
ONS 15454SONET/SDH card slots may be preprovisioned for an ML-Series line card, the following
steps can be performed before or after the provisioning of the slot has taken place.
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A NO-CONFIG condition is reported in CTC under the Alarms pane, when an ML-Series card is inserted
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and no valid Cisco IOS startup configuration file exists. Loading or creating this file clears the condition.
See the
ML-Series Access
You can access the ML-Series card Cisco Internet Operating System (IOS) configuration in four ways:
opening a Cisco IOS session on CTC, Telnetting to the IP Address and slot number plus 2000, Telnetting
to a configured management port, or directly connecting to the console port.
Cisco ONS 15454 SONET/SDH ML-Series Multilayer Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, R4.0
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Hardware Installation, page 3-1
ML-Series Access, page 3-1
Startup Configuration File, page 3-6
Understanding Cisco IOS Command Modes, page 3-10
Using the Command Modes, page 3-12
Install the ML-Series card into the ONS 15454 SONET/SDH. Refer to Chapter 2, "Install Cards and
Fiber-Optic Cable" of the Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide or Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Procedure
Guide for information.
Connect the Ethernet cables to the ML-Series card.
Connect the console terminal to the ML-Series card (optional).
"Startup Configuration File" section on page 3-6
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for information on loading or creating the file.
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