Configuring Your Router to Be Set Up
Through the SDM
All you charge in adjustment to chase forth in this affiliate is a accurate ISR router (1800/2800, and
so on); you can download the latest adaptation of SDM complete with instructions for installing
it on your computer and your router from
www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sdm
.
To download this software, you charge a Cisco Affiliation Online (CCO) login.
However, this is chargeless and takes alone a minute or beneath to set up. Go to
www.cisco.com
, and bang Register in the top-right corner. Fill in the abbreviate form,
and add the username and countersign you appetite to use; again you’ll be able to
download the SDM and the SDM demo.
From this site, not alone can you install the SDM on your computer to advice the SDM pages load
faster back abutting to your router, but you can additionally accredit the use of the Cisco SDM demo.
You charge to apperceive this afore you start, though—to set up your host to log in application the SDM,
you accept to accomplish abiding your router is configured first. If you accept deleted your configurations
and reloaded the router, you’ll accept to alpha from scratch. But accomplishing that absolutely isn’t all that hard
(see Table 12.1 for the commands you’ll need). You can aloof accept a LAN interface of the
router and again affix a host anon to the router application a crossover cable—not so bad!
TABLE 1 2 . 1
Configuring Your Router for SDM
Command Meaning
enable
Places your animate affiliation into advantaged mode
configure terminal
Places your affiliation into all-around agreement mode
interface
interface
Chooses an interface to configure
no shutdown
Enables an interface
ping
Tests connectivity from one host to another
Here is what the CLI would attending like if you affiliated to a router through the animate port
after a router had been asleep and rebooted:
Would you like to admission the antecedent agreement dialog? [yes/no]:
n
Press RETURN to get started!
Router>
en
Router#
config t
Enter agreement commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#
int f0/0
Router(config-if)#
ip abode 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#
no shut
Router(config-if)#
do ping 1.1.1.2
Type escape arrangement to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 1.1.1.2, abeyance is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success amount is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/4 ms
So, what’s this all about? In the above-mentioned configuration, I configured the FastEthernet
interface with an IP abode and enabled it with the
no shutdown
command. I again activated my
connection by pinging my anon affiliated host from the router prompt. (This would be a
minimum agreement and acquiesce you to affix via SDM.) From here, you aloof accessible a browser
(with pop-ups enabled), type
http://1.1.1.1
, and chase the accessible prompts already connected.
It’s altered if you appetite to set the router to use HTTPS, which allows you admission into
privileged approach aloft affiliation (meaning we’re ambience the router to the aboriginal absence configuration).
And you charge to add a few added commands (see Table 12.2).