welcome to the Cisco netacad CCNA introduction to networks video series by
Jason Johnson this video is packet tracer lab to point 1.4.7 establishing a
console session with teraterm I want to thank you for watching my videos your
time is appreciated I created these videos to help the students in my
courses but I've decided to share them with everyone I hope they are helpful in
your course of study the lab material in these videos covers the 6.0 version of
the introduction to networks for cisco netacad however the material will also
help you with earlier versions if you're still going through the 5-0 or 5.1
version so if you have any questions you can leave a comment below
now this lab is establishing a console session with teraterm if you have actual
lab equipment in front of you where you have a computer and a switch you'll be
able to do this if you are doing this online you do not have access to a lab
you'll be doing this with packet tracer so what I'm gonna do on part one of this
lab is just walk through the accessing a Cisco switch to the serial console port
and talk about it on part two I'm gonna use packet tracer and then we'll discuss
part three as we get to that so the background scenario for this lab is
there's various models of Cisco routers and switches used in all types of
networks the devices are managed with using a local console connection or a
remote connection you're going to have to use a local console connection to get
the switch or router or other Cisco device up and running initially so that
you can then remote access to them a remote connect to them nearly all Cisco
devices have a serial console port to which you can connect some newer models
such as the 1941 have that we're going to be using in this lab also have a USB
console port and we'll take a look at that picture later on in this lab so in
this lab you'll learn how to access a Cisco device via a direct local
connection to the console port using a terminal emulation program called
teraterm you'll also learn how to configure the port settings for the
teraterm console connection we're going to talk through those in this lab
because we're doing this online after you've established a console connection
with the Cisco vais you can display or configure device
settings you will only display settings and configure the clock in this lab and
there's some notes here to read to the routers used with the CCNA hands-on labs
are the Cisco 19:41 the switches used in the labs are the Cisco Catalyst
29 60s so but you'll want to make sure that you the switch in the router have
been erased and there's no startup configuration if you're unsure about
that contact your instructor in your lab now on step one here you're gonna
connect the rollover console cable to the rj45 console port of the switch and
that's right here you're gonna connect right here and you're gonna connect to
your rs-232 port or your comm port back here most newer laptops are not gonna
have the rs-232 and I'm gonna put up a image of that right here in the video ok
so you see that rs-232 image there most newer laptops are not going to have that
rs-232 comm port you'll use a USB connector for that and I'll put an image
up of that in a few minutes so let's look on step two we're gonna configure
the teraterm to establish a console session with the switch it's a terminal
emulation program you can get it from this website here or you can just search
for that on the internet and you'll be able to find teraterm just make sure
that you're downloading that from a reputable site on this step here in the
new connection with the software we're going to click the serial radio button
that's if you're using the serial connection so you're gonna connect
serial you're gonna use your comm port 1 or whichever ones active you may need to
go into your hardware settings and find out which one is active on there you're
gonna make your settings port 1 our port is com1 baud rate 9608 none 1 none
you're gonna use those settings right there once you connect you'll be able to
see that in the ter term screen and that's this right here you'll be able to
see in your console window you'll be able to see the information coming back
from the switch or the router and that's how you know that you're connected
you'll be getting this feedback if you're just getting a plain blank screen
then something's not working properly for you for part 2 I'm going to go ahead
and use packet tracer to do this assignment and in part 2 we're going to
display and configure the basic device settings so in step 1 of part 2 we're
gonna display the switch iOS image version so what we have to do is we have
to put a switch on the board and then we could
just go directly into it but I'm gonna simulate actually connecting a console
cable so we're gonna come down here and we're gonna click on the switch here
we're gonna grab a twenty nine sixty and we're gonna put that on the board and
then we're gonna come down here we're gonna grab an end device and I'm gonna
go ahead and use a laptop here and then I'm gonna put a console connection cable
here and I'm gonna connect into the rs-232 and then I'm gonna connect into
the switch on the console port and I'm gonna come in here to the laptop and I'm
gonna click on that and we're gonna go in here to the desktop software now
we're gonna use the terminal software that's going to be the same as the
teraterm so we're gonna click on that and you can see my settings that we just
looked in part one ninety six hundred eight nine one none i'm gonna click okay
and we're gonna see this screen here and i'm gonna zoom in on this screen here on
the video and we get our information right off the right through here and it
says press return to get started so we're gonna press return and now we are
at our our user exec and the first question we have is that we need to go
ahead and do our show version so we're gonna type show version on here but as
you've started to learn in these labs you can shortcut commands and if we want
to see if I can I shortcut the show command so I'm gonna type in SW or I'm
just going to type in s in question mark and I only have one command for show so
I can just type in s or I always type in SH space and now can I just type in V ER
or V V could I just type in s V so if I did s and I could not only have one
version of show so I could do s and then V but I have three different options for
V so I would actually have to type ve so but I could I could type s space ve and
get the show version and so when we get that you're gonna notice that I have a
more command at the bottom if I press my spacebar it's gonna finish out all the
rest of the information it's gonna do a page at a time but if I do the Enter key
it's gonna do one line at a time I'm pressing my in turkey right now as it's
going through until I get to the end the question we have is which iOS image
version is currently in use by your switch so you want to come in here and
our switch image is right here now what I'm doing on packet tracer here is the
12 version of the software and if you have the 15 version that's
the version 12.2 therefore the bootloader your C 2960 software is the
version 15 and it'll look a little bit different than the 12 version I've got
another video that shows you how to upgrade your image on your routers and
your switches I'll put that link in the description below that the system image
flash is 2960 and this is our location right here so this right here should be
the answer to your question on which iOS image version is currently and used by
your switch now what I'm gonna do on this part of the video is I'm going to
zoom back in on the command line interface and in step two what we're
gonna do is we're going to configure the clock so as you learn more about
networking you're gonna see that configuring the correct time on a Cisco
switch or router can be very helpful when you're
troubleshooting problems plus you just want to have the correct time set on
your all of your hardware so the following steps manually configure the
internal clock of the switch so we're going to display the current clock
settings and we're still at user exact mode so we're gonna do show clock and
again on these commands remember that we can shortcut these so the show command I
can just type s and if I type seeing question mark I have three commands that
I have to start with see but I only have one command that starts with CL so if I
want to do show clock I can just type space s space CL and then I'm gonna get
the show caught command and I'm gonna get this right here on step 2 be the
clock setting is changed from within the privileged exec mode so we're gonna
enter the privilege exact mode by typing enable and we can just type en and now
we're going to configure the clock setting the question mark provides help
and allows us to determine the expected input for configuring the current time
date and year so we're gonna press ENTER to complete the clock configuration so
we're going to here so we're gonna type clock set so we're gonna type CL we're
gonna see is CL a unique commander for us and it's not because we have clear
end clock so we're gonna type CLO space will ask give us a unique enough command
it does so we can just type CLO set but when own clock set I always just type
them out because it doesn't take that much to get or that much to type out so
clock set space question mark and we have to put it in this format right here
now minutes seconds and in the current time
so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and type clock set space 1500 : 0
8 : 0 0 question mark so that's telling us now
that the time is good but we still have to put the month in so we're gonna type
October space 2 6 space question mark and now we have to put our year in and
we're gonna put in 2017 and we're gonna press Enter and now our clocks been set
there so now we can type show clock and now we get our current time is set okay
for part 3 this is optional for this lab so just check with your instructor if
they want you to do this part of the lab but it is accessing a cisco router using
the mini USB console cable it's gonna be very similar to using the rs-232 I'm
gonna show this image right here and you're gonna use the USB connector so
it's gonna look something like this I'm also going to put an image on the screen
for you right now and with that image right there you'll see that you have a
mini USB connector and a type mini type B console on one side and a USB type a
on the other side to go into your end device now prior to being able to run
the USB connector you're going to have to get with Cisco and there is software
that you're gonna have to put for the drivers if you have any trouble with
that contact Cisco then you know the www cisco.com
there's also a link right here I know that's very difficult to type in from a
video so I will put that in the link in the description below you have to have a
valid Cisco connection online account to download that file so make sure that you
have to set that up first to get that or get with your instructor for that for
the last part of this lab there are two reflection questions the first one is
how do you prevent unauthorized personnel from accessing your Cisco
device through the console port that is a very complicated answer however you
can simply answer it by saying physically securing the device and using
a password protection so physically securing a device and putting passwords
on your devices those are two ways to prevent unauthorized personnel from
accessing your device number two what are the advantages and disadvantages of
using a serial console connection compared to the USB console connection 2
Cisco router or switch and the answer to that is it depends on the port
availability on the PC and the router or the switch if the PC has a serial port
and a db9 two rj45 cable it's generally easier to connect to the router or
switch using the serial console port if the computer does not have a serial port
a third party USB serial adapter can be used Cisco switches do not have many USB
console ports so connecting via USB is not an option if you're frequently
connecting to a Cisco router that has a mini USB console port you can also get a
cable that's USB to the console port on the Cisco switch side okay so this has
been the packet tracer lab to point 1.4.7
establishing a console session with teraterm I hope this information was
helpful for you if you have any questions leave a comment below I'll try
to get back with you as quick as possible and I hope you have a great day
you