Cisco Catalyst 2950 Hardware Installation Manual page 37

Chapter 1 Quick Installation
Basic management setup configures only enough connectivity
for management of the system, extended setup will ask you
to configure each interface on the system.
Would you like to enter basic management setup? [yes/no]: yes
Enter a host name for the switch, and press Return.
Step 2
On a command switch, the host name is limited to 28 characters; on a member
switch to 31 characters. Do not use -n, where n is a number, as the last character
in a host name for any switch.
Enter host name [Switch]: host_name
Step 3 Enter an enable secret password, and press Return.
The password can be from 1 to 25 alphanumeric characters, can start with a
number, is case sensitive, allows spaces, but ignores leading spaces. The secret
password is encrypted, and the enable password is in plain text.
Enter enable secret: secret_password
Enter an enable password, and press Return.
Step 4
Enter enable password: enable_password
Enter a virtual terminal (Telnet) password, and press Return.
Step 5
The password can be from 1 to 25 alphanumeric characters, is case sensitive,
allows spaces, but ignores leading spaces.
Enter virtual terminal password: terminal-password
(Optional) Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) by
Step 6
responding to the prompts. You can also configure SNMP later through the
command-line interface (CLI) or Cluster Management Suite (CMS) interface. To
configure SNMP later, enter no.
Configure SNMP Network Management? [no]: no
Enter the interface name (physical interface or virtual local-area network
Step 7
[VLAN] name) of the interface that connects to the management network, and
press Return. For this release, always use vlan1 as that interface.
Enter interface name used to connect to the
management network from the above interface summary: vlan1
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Entering the Initial Configuration Information
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