this video is going to cover the lab neta cad lab 2147 two point one point
four seven establishing a console session with tera term and the note i
want to tell you up front is if you are doing this in a virtual environment if
you're using packet tracer or NDG labs or net labs or some type of virtual
equipment you're not going to do the first parts here are the part 1 because
you're not going to physically connect to a switch you're going to do that in
the virtual environment so when we come down here what you're going to need is
one router a nineteen forty one router a 21 2960 switch some type of pc windows 7
windows 8 windows 10 works too because you can run teraterm on windows 10 or
linux have you got a linux machine or and i've not tried this on a Google
Chrome device but I may do that in the future just to check it you're going to
need some type of a roller roll over cable which is db9 comport to rj45 and
I'll make a note that a lot of the newer computers do not have a db9 switch so
you're going to do something more similar to this you're going to come out
USB to rj45 and that's a rollover and when you set your software up you'll
have that USB port be your comport to go out to that so instead of using a older
comport device their connection our connection to go to your device you're
going to use a USB but when you get that connected you're going to use some type
of software teraterm works really well for that it looks something like that
when you get it installed and you're going to communicate to the port that's
going out to that line that USB line I don't have a video on this right now but
you can go out on the you can go out and find one there's plenty of them out
there on how to connect to our term and how to do that and then what you set up
your comport information here it's usually basic com'on baud rates 9600 and
that's a throwback to the late 80s the 90s of when you we set up modems and the
baud rate was 9600 and your data rates 8-bit parody done one you know should
leave everything default there and you should be if everything's set up
properly if you have your connections made if you have a software running
oper late you should get on your device this screen here your iOS software your
boot up and it's going to ask if you want to go through your initial
configuration so what we're going to do is I'm going to switch over to my packet
tracer and I'm going to add a couple of these devices and we're going to do this
in the packet tracer environment so it's telling us that we want to do a 1941
switch 2960 and a computer or device so what we're going to do here is we're
going to do in devices here and I'm just going to set up a laptop on here and
then I'm going to go to my network devices and I'm going to do a 1941 it
said in 1941 2960 so let's go to switches here and we'll do a 2960
and it doesn't really matter how you set these up on here because we're going to
up we're going to connect to these on that
and let's go back down to our step here so step one it says after the switch is
completed its startup process the following message is displayed in turn o
to continue but we've got to connect our cables here so in a real world we would
connect our cables in the packet tracer environment we're going to come in here
and we're going to connect to our device and put a cable end so we're going to
come to our cabling here and we're going to come to our console cable here and
we're going to connect to to our rs-232 we could we could do USB but we're just
going to go ahead and emulate the db9 which is the rs-232 and then we're going
to put it into our router here and we're going to come into the console and let's
just double-check that's what it's asking us to do here
I know it wanted us to go into the switch so let me take that console and
take it here and put it into the switch and now what we're going to do is we're
going to come in here to our laptop and we're going to come in here to our
software our comfy excuse me
check everything out our settings here we're going to leave everything saying
that same that everything the same our software we don't have any software
managing right now we don't have any things set up but we're going to go to
our desktop here and on our desktop instead of having tera term we're going
to have the software called terminal and so we're just going to open up our
terminal here we're going to check make sure again here's the 9600 891 none
we're going to click OK and that should give us our terminal now and that is
what we're returning see it says press in a return and we're at our switch
you and we can do show version it's going to
do our commands here so first we have to get into when we're in exec mode when
we're in exec mode we can display the iOS version for the switch
and we know we're in exec mode by our greater than sign and let me see if I
get this a little bit larger here
okay that's a little bit better there and when we have our switch here we know
we're at the exec mode both are greater than sign there and we could just do our
show version and we can shortcut that sag just do show the ER which is the
same as what they're doing their version but I could short I can up the alias on
that
and we're going to get our short version and it's going to do the more and then
we can just we can do our in Turkey to go in line at a time or we can do our
space key to get the whole thing and then we can scroll up and we can show
our version information here on our switch and this one is showing 12.2 our
images 2960 there's our model number Colton one switch 26 ports
and that's the same thing that's showing there and it's you know that's going to
show our image file there and so you can see which iOS image version is currently
in use by your switch this one here is going to be different than what's on our
actual switch over here so if we come over here you can just sit
and say okay what's the current version that's running and you can come up here
and check to see what your current version is running
and here we're looking at there's our information right there
got our software their compiled on 12 October there's our rom information
and there's all of our information that we're looking for
and then it's wanting us to come in here and configure the clock we're going to
come in and we're still exec mode so we're going to do show clock
and we're going to say our clock is set to march first 1993 so it's going to
tell us do we need to now go into
privileged exec mode so let me move this over here just a
little bit so I can see this at the same time so what we're going to do is we're
going to use our enable command or you can shortcut it bitch put en
and then it's going to tell us to do the clock set so we're going to use the
command clock space set ?
and the question mark is letting us know what commands we have we can do current
time or we can set it in our format is hours minutes and seconds
and then we're going to type that in we're going to set instead of ? we're
going to type in our actual time right there and you're going to type in
whatever time you're running at at that time now and you have to remember that
this is the 24 hour clock so if you're in the afternoon starting at one o'clock
it's 1300 four o'clock is 1600 and so forth you know eight o'clock is 20
hundred and then you're just going to need to set it based on the 24-hour
clock so you'll just need to convert that and it's just easy to do if you've
not used that before just at one o'clock starts at 1300 and then it just goes
from there so it's just you're counting 24 hours instead of 12 hours so if it's
mines 940 but let's just say it's you know let's just go ahead and set it to
what it's saying here it's saying 308 or 1508 so we're going to say 1508 and we
have to put the seconds into because if you don't do that it won't be / and then
we space ? and that's going to tell us what we can set next and we now the
question mark is saying what commands do we have available to us and so now we
have the vet these commands available to us and that's a little bit more than
what we had on this version that is shown here let's see yeah month month
and year so now we're going to set our october twenty six twenty twelve but
let's just go ahead and set the date here and let's just say September's
September 7 2016 so we're going to say sep 07 2016
and then if we space ? in it saying the only command available to us is the
carriage return and so now we can do show clock and now we've got a correct
time in there 15 308 on ways d September 7 2016
you and on here on part three is just saying
access a cisco router using a mini USB console cable that's just the mini USB
and that's on instead of the rj45 the newer devices are using mini USB to
connect so you can have a USB on your computer side and the mini USB on the
device side over there and it's the same thing you're just going to connect to it
and on there if you're going to do that you can enable your windows 7 your
Windows 10 for your USB to have a comm port and so you have to go in and set
that
what I recommend you do is your computer that you normally work on I what I have
done in the past is taking an older laptop and I just use that older laptop
to do my configuration on my cisco or any of my networking devices that I have
to connect into and that way I don't have to set up any special advice I've
got an older laptop I've got the software set up on it I've got the cable
set for it and then I know it's available for me to then go pick up and
then it's in the server room or somewhere close to my devices and then I
can go in and I can move around and connect console into my devices if I'm
not doing it through the network and the rest of this lab is just showing you how
to do that on a windows seven if you've got a Windows 10 or Windows 8 it's going
to be similar just be careful when you're doing these to you know make sure
that you know what you're doing on updating your software drivers and
updating that so you're gonna have to go get the cisco drivers for that it'll
walk you through on how to do that it does work I've walked through it I've
done it myself on a Windows 7 machine I've not done this on a Windows 10
machine but I believe it's the same and then by at the end you're going to
get your sale device you're going to have it go through your cisco cereal and
it's going to be your USB device and then on the questions down here you're
going to say you're just going to answer these questions here how do you prevent
unauthorized personnel from accessing your cisco device to the console port
that's easy you've got physical physical security and then what advantages and
disadvantages of using a serial cable connection compared to USB console
connection to a cisco router so you want to research that question and answer
that
okay that's a quick overview of this lab just make sure you go through all the
steps again if you're in the virtual environment you're not going to be
physically doing part one that's the physical connection but you're going to
do part to display and configure the basic device settings and in this case
we configure the clock on here we showed the version we configured the clock
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